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...strongly resent the anti-German nature of S. Allen Counter's letter in response to Harkensson's movie. Mr. Counter seemed to be obsessed with the image of the inherently evil German. Why does he repetitively mention that Fran Hosken is Harkensson's German companion? I have never encountered a German woman with this name, but that is irrelevant to the subject matter discussed here. Whether Harkensson's assistant is German, Jewish, black or Russian is not important...
...Harkensson (and his German female companion Fran Hosken) proceeded to show his grotesque films to an audience of about 25, white (mostly female) students and staff. These films contained no more than redundant sequences of sexual mutilation (clitoridectomy and scarification) of five-and six-year-old black youngsters who were shrieking and fighting during the act and being restrained by older women. Most of the audience literally ran out of the room during the first few minutes of this grotesque scene. Over the protests of Mr. Harkensson and his German companion, I disrupted his presentation and demanded that...
...such case, perhaps, is that of Franziska Hosken, a designer and self-styled urban critic who claims she was refused a teaching appointment at the Graduate School of Design because of her sex. A Harvard Ph.D. in Architecture, Hosken had been trying to get a job at Harvard since the late sixties, although the GSD told her that it was not searching for anyone and that she did not qualify to teach in any of its departments. She applied for "a position" and was refused so many times that Dean Maurice Kilbridge said he would no longer answer her inquiries...
...Hosken was determined to make her treatment at the GSD a test case against "old boy" hiring practices at Harvard that she believes discriminate against minorities and women. She waited until Bok took office in 1971--"there was no sense in doing this with Pusey," she says--and brought her complaint to HEW. After a year's investigation, HEW found that Hosken had suffered discrimination. Her case was "strange," however, according to Bob Randolph of the HEW Boston Civil Rights Office. "We didn't feel she was discriminated against because of her sex; the problems in this case were more...
...request, Kilbridge says, the GSD "spent hundreds of hours" preparing stacks of personnel records to demonstrate that it had considered Hosken's qualifications along with those of other applicants. That was three years ago--"they go away and never come back," Kilbridge says. HEW will be back, however, in the next few months to get additional information from the GSD and other departments...