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...most glaring instance is the continued inaction on the case of Professor Chester Hartman. For nearly two years now the Dean and Faculty of the GSD have been unable and apparently unwilling to resolve the matter. That Professor Hartman was dismissed in an arbitrary and unconsidered fashion continues to be clear to anyone who considers the evidence. That he is supported in his request for a fair hearing (under mechanisms set up by the GSD Faculty) by the GSD Alumni group, students, respected professionals and educators in planning, and other Harvard faculty apparently makes no difference...
Until and unless the GSD resolves this case it can make no claim that it is a place where academic freedom or educational quality are found in the measure expected of Harvard. Thomas E. Nutt, MCP '70 President GSD Student Senate...
Aside from the grievances at the GSD, however, the Corporation's reluctance to address itself to the issue of the condition of the School carries with it some troubling implications. By finding for the Dean "with prejudice," the Corporation has effectively blocked any appeal by the professors within the University. The decision intones that no professor or group of professors can, through formal proceedings, successfully challenge the prerogative of a dean or administrator--even when, as in this instance, they feel that University Statutes have repeatedly been violated. In a supposedly open community, this denial of formal redress is deplorable...
...faculty of the Graduate School of Design yesterday studied the implications of the Corporation's decision dismissing grievances against Maurice D. Kilbridge, dean of the GSD, but one of the professors who brought the grievances indicated that he feels the dean's performance is still an issue...
...delay of Hartman's appeal has gone on long enough. Hartman deserves a hearing, a fair hearing, and yet Harvard seems reluctant to give him that. Perhaps the administration of the GSD is hoping that in a changing political climate, the Hartman case will diminish in importance until it is forgotten altogether. But it won't be, and to pretend it will can serve only to mar further the reputation of what is already Harvard's shoddiest graduate school...