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...matter how hard it tries, the Graduate School of Design can't keep its skeletons locked in the closet. Every few years the bolt slips, the door edges open and out step the remains of old GSD scandals in a veritable danse macabre. "Unfortunate sordidness" soon fills the air, as it has once again this month for the GSD, the University's long-time problem child...
...first skeleton out of the closet this year belongs to a long-departed former GSD faculty member named Chester W. Hartman '57, who now lives in San Francisco. When the GSD declined in 1969 to reappoint him assistant professor of city planning, Hartman successfully sought formal investigation of his charges that personal and political considerations had governed the school's decision...
...there was uncertainty or indifference or questioning amongst faculty and students, it was neverthe less a positive action. Now, two years after this start, GSD seems to have regressed, as there is only one woman left in the Department of Architecture. It is sad that the other two apparantly didn't work out--but it seems inconceivable that they could not have been replaced by other women. The faculty ratio at the moment...
...utterly deplorable that a good school like GSD can still do this today and that Harvard University permits this to happen. This is a very sad and negative attitude in such an esteemed University. I hate to admit it, but this is my Alma Mater. Maria Funyo McVitty M. Arch, Graduate School of Design...
...Nielsen Gallery on Newbury St. in Boston is exhibiting new acquisitions, including works by Moore, Miro, Roualt and Picasso. In the lobby of Gund Hall is an exhibit by the GSD of archetypal modern housing projects--featuring Frank Lloyd Wright, who, I was told on the plane heading for Boston last Sunday, did not really do most of his own designing. It seems he had a prolific underling...