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Peter P. Rogers, associate professor of City Planning, said earlier this week that the Rogers Committee--which Implements the ad hoc procedures-decided against introducing Hartman's appeal to the GSD faculty because his committee's sole responsibility is to carry out the ad hoc procedures, not to request their alteration...
What has happened is really extraordinary, and it is hard to believe that the GSD, given the poor reputation it has built up in the Harvard community over the past years, can hope to enhance the reputation with its latest idiocy. In forming its first committee, the Design School violated two of the very few rights they had left me with to provide for a fair hearing; one of these was right to make nominations to the list from which the GSD Faculty was to vote. When I brought this to their attention, they apparently agreed that these were serious...
This is precisely what has happened. I have been "granted" those rights which were denied me on the first round, but it has been mere window-dressing. Not one of the forty-odd persons I nominated under the new procedure received enough votes to be asked to serve. (The GSD even arbitrarily refused to allow several of my nominations, under the specious reasoning that they did not hold the rank of assistant, associate or full professor; thus I was not allowed to nominate such longterm and distinguished members of the Harvard Faculty as Monroe Engel, Barrington Moore, Gary Marx...
...strange and disturbing that the GSD totally passed over persons of this caliber and simply reelected virtually the same committee. I have some wellfounded objections to several of the persons elected and feel that two and possibly three ought to be disqualified for conflict of interest. But my principal objection is to the totally foul procedure which under the guise of discarding a previously tainted election merely repeats the results of that election...
...think the GSD has erred severely here: on grounds of equity and in misjudging just how far the Harvard community will accept this kind of behavior (this may again be my naivete, however.) What I stated two years ago is even more true today: the only way I will have a just hearing is if the hearing body is a neutral body, appointed by a neutral agent or jointly by both parties to the dispute. The current situation is nothing less than a farce. I call upon the "new committee as a body to refuse to serve, and I call...