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...stuff of a corporate soap opera, created by Norman Lear (Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman) in collaboration with Sophocles (Oedipus Rex). A crusty entrepreneur single-mindedly builds his obscure shoe company into a billion-dollar conglomerate. He turns it over to his son. The young executive discovers that without drastic reorganization the whole empire could topple. His father fiercely disagrees. Finally, the company's board gives the younger man the power to dismantle much of the corporate structure his father had put together. While the old man watches bitterly from the sidelines, the young executive sells marginal stores and unprofitable...
First, the motion to delay passed by only a one-vote margin, in spite of its support from Hartman, who, while anxious to resolve the affair, required more time to prepare a response to the policy panel's report. As he said in a statement to the faculty,"... I have invested far too much time and energy in the appeal to allow it to end in an overly hasty, procedurally defective fashion..." The narrowness of the vote must be taken as a regrettable indication of a desire to be rid of the affair, not to resolve it equitably...
Secondly, the faculty voted to reject Hartman's request to attend its debate next fall either in person or through counsel. This decision was wrong for several reasons. First, while Hartman will not be permitted to attend, the faculty members charged with wrongdoing may do so. Thus they will have not only the advantage of stating their case directly to the faculty but also of voting on the GSD's resolution of the affair. For example, GSD Dean Maurice D. Kilbridge, who was involved in the Hartman controversy in 1969-70, attended last week's meeting and spoke against giving...
Permitting Hartman or his counsel to be present is especially important as the dispute enters its seventh year. Many of the school's faculty members arrived after Hartman departed and know virtually nothing about the controversy. Ignorant thus of the facts and issues involved--which are exceedingly complicated--and probably reluctant to study the 300-page review committee report, these professors probably will be swayed by the dialogue in the meeting...
...doubt naive to expect the faculty to reverse its decision now. But the GSD must remember that if it continues to handle the Hartman affair with an eye towards expediency and not toward justice it will only further sully its name. For Hartman has made it clear that if the school refuses to scrutinize its past actions seriously, he will bring his case to President Bok, to the American Association of University Professors and possibly, to the courts...