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Southern offers other explanations for the poor tenure performance. She says scholars refused tenure for a number of reasons--the lack of a graduate program, family ties or spouses with conflicting jobs, and Harvard's inability to top some of their salaries...
...department now has one and a half tenured professors--Southern and Ewart Guinier '33, who is semi-retired. The lack of senior faculty in Afro-Am drew harsh criticism last spring, as students held a series of demonstrations charging Harvard--and Rosovsky in particular--with failing to search aggressively for tenured faculty, depriving the department of funding and planning to demote it to an interdisciplinary committee...
...Jerry Ford's Presidency as the reader of this book. Ford still defends the pardon of Nixon and the Mayaguez debacle, his acts of mercy and macho, his twin disaster--there is nothing new here. He explains the problems of inflation and the budget and energy, and excuses his lack of imaginative leadership in confronting these problems by calling his Presidency "a time to heal," borrowing from Ecclesiastes. If it actually were a time to heal, that healing called for active therapy, not indolence: Ford led a reign of atrophy. "A time to heal" cannot explain away the nonpareil frivolity...
...members of the union. At the same time, the union demand for more equitable promotions within the department has backfired, weakening its position still further. Before the last contract negotiations, the police charged that the few times Gorski promoted officers he chose them arbitrarily. The union contended that the lack of equity, internal communication and job security had severely damaged police morale, and demanded that the University correct the situation before it renegotiated a contract...
Ackerman is joined by Claire Malardi, head of the Harvard-Radcliffe dance program, who sees the lack of course credit as a major drawback in the dance program. "Because the kids don't get credit for what they do in the studio, it inevitably takes backseat to their graded classes," she says. "Time and energy-wise, the teacher is up against a real battle." Still, Malardi praises the dance program and the students for their dedication and admits that one benefit of the no credit policy is the near-total absence of pressure and competition. In the long run, however...