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...faculty voted correctly last week to delay until next fall its ruling on Hartman's charges that he was not rehired in 1969 for personal and political reasons, every other development this semester suggests a desire to dispose of the affair quickly rather than to systematically confront the GSD's questionable past actions...
...spring 1976 production of the tales of Hartman began with the April 1972 report of the GSD's Academic Policy Committee, a five-member panel that had studied the affair for six months. The committee's work was almost entirely founded on the three-year-plus investigation of yet another panel of five non-GSD faculty, the Hartman Review Committee. However, the report of the policy committee, which the panel has never released publicly, takes a markedly more lenient approach than its predecessor. The critical comment in the first study either is excluded altogether or fails to find...
...most shocking conclusion in the Academic Policy Committee's report concerns not Hartman's charges but the failure of several GSD faculty members to cooperate fully with the Hartman Review Committee. While the review panel reserved its strongest criticism for the uncooperative and called on the GSD faculty to take "due note of this fact and take such action as they deem appropriate," the members of the Academic Policy Committee--who are colleagues of the criticized faculty members--concluded that they could not recommend that the GSD even consider censure "in the absence of known standards and accepted procedures...
UNFORTUNATELY, the long-awaited and self-interestedly roseate report of the policy committee is not the only new stain on the GSD's record in this affair. The GSD faculty, meeting last week with only 25 voting members present (one over the quorum requirement), added a few blotches...
...investigation, Harvard's first into a non-hiring case, also labeled the school's reappointments procedures "grossly inadequate" and execrable; attacked several GSD faculty members for limiting their cooperation with the inquiry and Dean Kilbridge for his "seeming defensive posture"; and criticized "intrusion of subjective elements" into the school's decision on Hartman...