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Your May 24 story on Chester Hartman and the GSD faculty carefully describes the prolonged fencing over procedures for his appeal. It fails to report on the background of the case and its underlying issues. These need repeating. At the GSD Hartman was an inspiring teacher, a conscientious advisor, a productive scholar, an effective innovator of urban planning techniques and of educational methods. He was let go for a variety of reasons which had nothing to do with this outstanding record: not playing by the polite rules of the club, challenging the University's policies for how they affect surrounding...
...motion adopted by the GSD Faculty, an amendment made clear that any committee selected to handle an appeal must have "at least one member... acceptable to the individual involved." The amendment was intended to insure that the individual would have one person on the review committee whom he considered objective, not necessarily to insure that he have an advocate on the committee...
...procedures, which serve in lieu of Section 7, the complainant and the GSD administration are each allowed one challenge to the review committee "without stated cause." "These challenges are to be made simultaneously and not serially," the procedures state...
...list of potential committee members is made up of assistant professors, associate professors and full professors outside the GSD Faculty who were proposed by the Rogers Committee. The list is augumented by faculty members suggested by the GSD Faculty and by Hartman...
...GSD professor Thursday criticized the fact that, in both the original Rogers Motion and in the ad hoc procedures, the review committee reports its findings only to the dean-the same person who makes the decision not to renew a faculty member's contract...