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...December 1969, Dean Kilbridge of the GSD informed Chester Hartman that he would not be reappointed as Assistant Professor of City Planning. Dean Kilbridge argued that Hartman's competence "in the field of housing is too narrow." This argument was unanimously accepted by a faculty vote. However, the decision has been heavily criticized by both alumni and students. The GSD alumni association "reject [ed] the official reason given for not renewing the contract of Professor Chester Hartman." Two-thirds of GSD students signed a petition demanding that Hartman be rehired and promoted and the student body charged that the reasons...
Hartman's criticism of Harvard and the GSD has clearly angered the tenured professors of the City Planning Department: Nash, Vigier and Isaacs. Prof. Vigier recently rang up the Ford Foundation and dissuaded it from funding the U.F.S. In June 1969 Professor Nash, then chairman of the City Planning Department, wrote as follows to Hartman: "I have decided that I cannot support your reappointment... and will urge my successor to consider next year as terminal. I am doing this because I am convinced that your method of teaching conveys a sense of political strategy more than the substance of city...
Design School students and alumni who have worked for the reinstatement of Chester W. Hartman '57 as assistant professor of City Planning were frustrated anew by yesterday's GSD faculty meeting...
...GSD students also succeeded in turning the 13th Annual Urban Design Conference last week at Memorial Hall from planned discussion of mass-industrialized housing towards political problems...
Before adjourning, the approximately 350 businessmen, planners, architects, and GSD alumni at the Conference endorsed a motion calling for unilateral withdrawal from Southeast Asia and an end to political repression at home...