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...Howland report, an independent "management audit" of the University police released to the department last Thursday, supports the contention that critics of the Gorski reforms have maintained all along--that there is an inherent difference between the way a city government runs its police force, and how a university should police itself...
...report, which the group began working on last June at the request of University officials, will recommend means to increase efficiency by improving the morale of the members of the force, Howland said...
Harvard hired Howland's firm in the wake of complaints by the Harvard Police Association that efforts to reorganize the force had greatly lowered the officers' morale. The union refused to bargain for a new contract until the University took steps to solve what it called "the morale question...
...Howland said he has talked with union members as well as administrators in the course of the study, but would not mention any specific proposals contained in the report...
Wyatt said yesterday he has not seen a first draft of Howland's report, adding' that he had not expected to receive the final study until the end of the month...