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...Dean approves a case, an ad hoc committee is formed, comprised of three outside scholars, two senior Harvard faculty members from outside the candidate’s department and the man himself—the President of the University—who chairs all of these closed-door sessions. These are your tweed-clad, brandy-sipping decision-makers...
...statement to President Summers, the Women’s Caucus suggested that women must be included in faculty promotion committees, ad hoc and internal. But how will the inclusion of women in the process help? Aren’t men just as capable of making judgments on the qualifications of female candidates as they are for male candidates...
...People will hire people who are like them, other things being equal,” Jayne Professor of Government Jennifer L. Hochschild says over the phone. With few female voices in the recommendation and ad hoc processes, a female candidate’s prospects tend to drop...
Hochschild says that without the input of more women, the members of ad hoc and hiring committees may remain unaware of their own biases. “Without concrete information about the kinds of barriers that can get in the way, people don’t recognize them,” she says...
...Pilgrim; Disc Two offers almost as many remakes of Pixies songs recorded by Mr. Black just before the since-much-talked-about reunion. Disc One is, at most levels, what one might expect almost any demo tape to sound like: the pleasure here comes almost exclusively from the post-hoc knowledge of the songs’ evolution. The utterly bassless “I’ve Been Tired” and “Ed is Dead” are surprisingly intriguing, and “Nimrod’s Son?...