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...record number of women were elected to the council this fall, due in large part to the efforts of former council President Lamelle D. Rawlins '99, who actively sought to increase the diversity of the council. She ran an ad hoc committee to reach out to women and minorities on campus and encourage them to run for the council...
Living in the bubble that is Harvard Yard, I had forgotten that there was a real world where real things (like rape) happen. The Elster case was a shock, but it can easily be classified as an isolated event. With the exception of the ad-hoc committee that formed to foster greater awareness of rape on campus, all the excitement died down shortly after the case broke. Life has gone on--and not necessarily with any greater sense of awareness...
Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles makes Harvard's hiring policy even more like a search for the Men in Black: "The membership of tenure ad hoc committees and all the proceedings and documentation," he told The Crimson, "are, as they have always been, strictly confidential." Other universities have standing committees that determine tenure offers, but Knowles sure is right about Harvard. To determine the membership of the ad hoc committee that discussed Peter Berkowitz's tenure bid, for example, Weld Professor of Law Charles R. Nesson '60, actually used a prominent private investigator...
Huppe emphasized that Rudenstine and Knowleshave no influence on the final composition of thead hoc committee, and are not aware of acommittee's membership until dossiers aredistributed for consideration before the ad hocmeeting...
...members of the ad hoc committee give theiropinions at the end of the meetings, but do notvote, according to Huppe. At some point followingthe meeting, Rudenstine and Knowles meet and thenRudenstine personally makes the final tenuredecision...