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...very glad to get a copy of the strong letter you sent to Neil Rudenstine about the Bonnie Honig appointment. I share your deep dismay, and wrote to Neil myself about the matter on April 21 (as soon as I heard the result), urging, as you do, that he reconsider the case. I have also advised Dean Jeremy Knowles about my serious concern. I hope your argument will prevail with President Rudenstine, since I too think the university--and our students--will be much the poorer without Bonnie Honig's presence on our faculty...
President Neil L. Rudenstine's denial of tenure to Assistant Professor of Government Bonnie Honig is "incomprehensible given [his] publicly stated commitment to equality for women," said 15 female faculty in a letter sent to Rudenstine April 30 and obtained yesterday by The Crimson...
...Your decision to refuse Honig tenure has been greeted with shock and disbelief across the University and beyond," the letter said...
...Since Honig was denied tenure, a flurry of letters has been circulated by her friends and colleagues at Harvard and beyond...
Each candidate would have filled a special void in the government department. Honig would have updated the department to the methods of contemporary political thought and feminist theory in her work on issues such as subjectivity, legitimacy and identity. Berkowitz, following in the footsteps of his much-maligned conservative comrade Harvey C. Mansfield, Jr. '53, would have maintained the living spirit of Plato and Aristotle in political discourse. If President Rudenstine were truly committed to diversity, he would have overlooked the internecine political dissension in the department rather than the candidates themselves in making these tenure decisions. There...