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...Hartman's teaching is respected by students. Last semester Hartman had the third largest class in the City Planning Department. Two years ago a student teaching evaluation rated Hartman top in the department. The Dean may be better qualified to judge Hartman's teaching than students are, but he has not attended one of Hartman's classes...
...Hartman has worked hard to help the poor and the black. He is director of Urban Planning Aid. Boston Urban League, and Planners for Equal Opportunity. He was recently nominated for Vice-President of the American Institute of Planners. He founded and directed the Urban Field Service, which allows students to receive academic credit by working for community groups. The Urban Field Service has been praised by such diverse sources as Harvard's Wilson Report, Der Spiegel and Dean Kilbridge, who described U.F.S. as "one of the finest programs in the School...
...feel that the reasons for Hartman's dismissal are not academic but political. He has been a persistent and effective critic of national, University and School policies. In 1964 he ran as a peace candidate against Senator Edward Kennedy. He opposed University expansion in Cambridge and Roxbury, demanded that the University build low income housing and supported the April 1969 strike, after which the Corporation announced plans for low-and moderate-income housing in both areas. During the Organization for Black Unity's campaign for more black construction workers at Harvard, Hartman pointed out that Archibald Cox's arguments...
...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...
...basis of the evidence, I do not see how an unbiased observer could accept the official explanation that Hartman was dismissed because his "experience and knowledge in the field of housing is too narrow," or believe that his unpopularity with the senior faculty of the department and his criticism of the University and the School were not factors in the decision. I feel that justice, truth and academic freedom have been sacrificed to personal dislike and a fear of sit-ins. It is such minor, but totally indefensible decisions, that are dividing Harvard and the country...