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...Hartman Review Committee suffers from ambiguity and information gaps that will prevent the faculty from resolving the affair without another in-depth review. Secondly, broad questions of what due process and academic freedom mean in practical application requires University-level study and definition and not merely an ad hoc faculty decision on Hartman's charges. Finally, a clean break with a muddy past appears unlikely while long-standing animosities between Dean Kilbridge and several senior GSD faculty members persist...
...faculty attempts to skirt these issues it would leave ground for fundamental challenge. But it could find itself in a hopeless debate if, for example, it tries to carve out the meaning and correct application of academic freedom. Such questions demand University-level study and definition, not ad hoc formulations by individual faculties...
Ephraim Isaac, who was put up before last spring's ad hoc committee on the recommendation of the Afro Department and Dean Rosovsky but did not receive tenure, may be a likely candidate this time around. Though Isaac's contract expired last June, it was recently renewed until June...
Last May, President Bok convened an ad hoc committee--which must act on all Faculty appointments before sending them to Bok and the Governing Boards--to consider Southern, Ephraim Isaac, associate professor of Afro-American Studies, and William Shack, an associate professor of Anthropology at Berkeley...
...hoc committee doesn't exactly vote, but advises Rosovsky, who said he can always tell "if the vibes are right." When he's satisfied, he sends the nomination on to President Bok, who considers the appointment and if he likes it, sends it to the corporation, whose approval is usually automatic...