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Though both the faculty and student review committees have yet to release recommendations, the Ad Board has already seen one major change: the appointment of Evelynn M. Hammonds as dean of the College. Hammonds says that, as of now, she is not familiar enough with the Board to speak to...
Two Mondays ago Joshua D. Smith ’09 applied for an Undergraduate Council party grant. When he received no word from the UC by its usual Wednesday response time, he e-mailed Margaret M. Wang ’09, former party fund director of the UC Finance Committee...
Why did Dean Smith have to add such a humiliating and terrible caveat? Dean Hammonds, after all, is a respected scholar within both her departments and was well-regarded in her previous administrative position.
In fact, Hammonds herself deserves some credit for this disrespect. It was in the mandate of her previous job to ensure “greater diversity in faculty ranks.” The irony sings with starkness: Harvard’s coordinator of affirmative action now finds herself demeaned by...
The misfortune lies is this: no matter how talented and capable an administrator Hammonds is, doubts over the initial appointment will remain—even if only one or two provocateurs dare to voice them aloud.