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Under the adhoc procedures, Hartman was guaranteed the right to submit additional names to a GSD list of nominees for his review committee; he was also told that the review process would begin anew if a committee could not be formed from a preferential list of 20 names. But the GSD abrogated these rights previously guaranteed, and then had the audacity to present Hartman with a five-man committee with the expectation that he would readily relinquish his rights. Hartman called their conduct a new "idiocy." We agree...
...years of maneuvering at the GSD has now failed to produce a single name for Hartman's review committee. Two years is more than enough to demonstrate that the School is unwilling or incapable of establishing an impartial review committee to hear Hartman's appeal. This latest episode makes it even less likely that responsible faculty members will agree to serve on a GSD-governed review committee. The School should recognize its failure and transfer all responsibility for the Hartman review to an neutral third party amenable both to Hartman and the administration. Perhaps then Hartman's substantive charges that...
...Romanoff appeal is a separate but related example of the GSD's inability to establish an impartial review committee under its own aegis. Last week, Romanoff--who had earlier balked at having his grievances heard by a committee chaired by a man who currently teaches one of his former courses--must have watched in amazement when President Bok refused to intervene, and the review committee's recommendation that the case be closed was accepted by the GSD Faculty. We too are amazed. It seems clear that Romanoff had ample cause to fear a conflict of interest existed between members...
...Hartman and Romanoff cases is mirrored in his divisive and tactless conduct in the aftermath of the Corporation's decision dismissing specific grievances against him. After a bitter fight in the upper echelons of his School, the Dean should have recognized that all was not well at the GSD and he should have attempted a rapproachment with the two dissenting professors who remained at the School. Instead, he took his victory in the grievance proceedings as a cue to crow to the GSD alumni. His letter to the alumni--dated January 6, the same day as the Corporation's decision...
FINALLY, the GSD's relationship with the University community as a whole continues to deteriorate. The adjudication of the grievances of the three professors was conducted in an atmosphere of secrecy inconsistent with the beliefs in free and rational discourse and open and scholarly inquiry that supposedly characterize the Harvard community. The GSD administration continues to turn its back on the community and on its own faculty members; administrators often refuse even the slightest courtesies to reporters. This behavior can serve no useful end; the GSD's problems will remain insoluble so long as it tries to mask them...