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...violations are: 1) The list of nominees was to have been created "using the list of June 5, 1970, augmented by additional suggestions from the Faculty of the GSD and the complainant" (from the GSD Faculty motion of May 14, underlining added). In fact, I was given no opportunity to add names to this list of nominees, an omission which Professor Rogers acknowledges (vide Prof. Roger's letter...
...Although the May 14, 1971 GSD Faculty motion states that "those 20 candidates having the most votes will be the basis of selecting a Review Committee" and that "the Rogers Committee will then attempt to form a committee of five persons from the list of twenty starting with the persons with the most votes and working down the list," the Rogers Committee in fact went beyond the list of those 20 receiving the most votes in forming its committee. A letter to me from Professor Rogers dated Dec. 28, 1971 states that "the final acceptance (was) the 23rd place...
Neither of these two violations is in itself trivial; taken together, they constitute a serious breach in the few rights I have remaining under the Rogers Committee procedures after they were revised by the GSD Faculty. Let me detail the implications of these violations...
...knowing on what criteria, and with what aims in mind, individuals were nominated: was it to put forth persons whose independence and probity would be beyond question, or was it to try to place on the committee persons who would be likely to find for the GSD? The presence on the list of so many persons associated with a conservative political stance and the university version of "law and order"--Professors Anderson, Banfield, Francis Bator, Cox, Deutsch, Heimert, Maass, Mason, to name just a few--suggests that the latter motive was paramount in at least some nominators' minds. Assumedly...
...University committees and actions which have sought to stifle political dissent and political activity on campus. It is in most respects a "loaded" committee, one from which at least two, and possibly more, members ought to disqualify themselves, or be disqualified, in view of connections and relationships with the GSD and the principals there involved in this appeal (particularly in the spirit of the GSD's own rule that no member of the GSD Faculty should serve on the appeals committee...