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...nomination last week of Edward L. Keenan '57, professor of History, to be the new dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) represents a serious error in timing and judgment on the part of Dean Rosovsky and other Harvard administrators who had input into the selection process. Though superficially well-qualified for the job, Keenan continues to serve on the Board of Governors of Reza Shah Kabir University (RSKU), the Iranian national university, which is still in its planning stages. Keenan has supported the RSKU project from the start, over the strenous objections of members...
Last week, Keenan announced that he will not resign the RSKU post if the Board of Overseers confirms him as the new GSAS dean. "I don't think the position at RSKU will conflict with my work as graduate school dean. If it does, I'll drop the Iranian post," Keenan said, somewhat short-sightedly. What Keenan fails to realize is that his involvement with the Shah's regime runs in opposition to the spirit of free inquiry on which this University--unlike its Iranian counterpart--was founded...
...While Keenan seems reasonably qualified for the post beyond his unfortunate Iranian connections, it is again depressing that the University was unable to appoint--or even, apparently, to consider--a woman or member of a minority group for the GSAS post...
Panayote Dimitras, a member of the GSAS Student Panel of Electors, noted Monday that Keenan was not of the panel's first choices, but "I feel more positive now than I did then about his potential as a dean," he said this week...
...Keenan appointment preserves the all-white, all-male circle of deans who head University schools, but as Harris, whose committee searched for an acceptable minority candidate, noted, "essentially we found that the pool was too small, and regret fully we had to admit that we had no one to recommend...