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...members were soon to deteriorate even further. On July 9, The Crimson ran an article naming the five candidates up for the position of HDS director--information which was not supposed to be made public. Dean Lewis strongly suggested that the students on the search committee were responsible for leaking the list. Even though he admitted he had no evidence that they were responsible for the leak, Lewis subsequently wrote in an e-mail obtained by the Crimson that "the publication in The Crimson of the names...has undermined, in the eyes of some, confidence in the wisdom of giving...
...shift in attitudes was immediate. The day Explorer 3.0 hit the streets, Netizens began to create an approving buzz. And from around the Net, where Netscape had long trumpeted its 85% market share, word began to leak back that Microsoft browsers were accounting for 30%, then 40% and by last week 60% of the hits on some servers. Though Netscape still indisputably has the larger proportion of browsers, Microsoft reported that more than a million people downloaded Explorer 3.0 in its first week online, overwhelming the company's specially beefed-up servers. And while Netscape is starting to charge more...
...Members of the dining services search committee did ask me about students on the search committee in the aftermath of the leak; my attempt to trace it was as much an effort to be able to reassure the people who had raised the question with me as anything else," Lewis said...
Miller, a veteran of several student-faculty committees, said the HDS candidate list leak may cause faculty and administration committee members to be more careful with sensitive information...
Students involved with committees continue to deny that students were responsible for the leak...