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EVERYTHING GERALD FORD touches seems to turn into the bland and mediocre. Kennedy, Johnson and Nixon all inspired savage and often brilliant satire, but Ford-based humor seems hardly able to rise above the level of Hellen-Keller-of-the-mind jokes. Perhaps it's too early to tell, but The Laughingstock, anyway, seems pretty much on this level--a collection of more or less political jokes instead of a satirical revue...
...Phyllis Keller, assistant to Dean Rosovsky, who helped in the preparation of the letter to the Faculty, said yesterday that if the foundation grants come through they will "allow faculty members to investigate in a concentrated manner, free from normal administrative burdens...
...part, Leonard acknowledges that good faith "goes only so far." Phyllis Keller says that last year, her first at Harvard, there was "a good deal of meticulous conformance to the letter of the guidelines but not to their spirit...
...vague and easy to subvert. Delda White says departments choose male professors on the basis of promise, while selecting women and minorities on the basis of prior achievement. She cites as an example the English Department, which chose three men last year for three assistant professorship openings. Keller acknowledges that although "in any specific proposal I can't nail any evidence of discrimination," the case of the English Department "certainly leaves an impression...
There's not much the University can do directly in such cases unless the department's search description is blatantly negligent. When Keller, Leonard or Rosovsky suspects a department of discriminating, they generally can only call the chairman in for a chat. Keller says that as many as 20 per cent of the search descriptions she gets need more work, but that the University has only once flatly refused to approve a teaching appointment for affirmative action violations. Leonard says he has returned about 35 appointments for more documentation, but all of the challenged appointments were finally approved...