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Dartboard has noticed that Harvard students fighting inequality in the real world work to correct it here on campus as well. Hence a letter by Kyle A. Gilman ’02 last spring pointing out “the naturally unequal distribution of dining hall traffic caused by geography and quality of cuisine” prompted an outcry to make sure that residents of all Houses had an equal opportunity to eat well...
...brutal dictator—pale in comparison. I hope that future demonstrations keep this concern in mind. After all, if you were President Bush, what would keep you up at night: Knowing that people think awarding reconstruction contracts to Halliburton is a kickback, or having to sign a condolence letter...
...brutal dictator—pale in comparison. I hope that future demonstrations keep this concern in mind. After all, if you were President Bush, what would keep you up at night: Knowing that people think awarding reconstruction contracts to Halliburton is a kickback, or having to sign a condolence letter...
While these changes will ameliorate flaws with the blind letter system and allow for fairer treatment of internal candidates, they utterly fail to compensate for the system’s serious lack of consideration for one of the most important characteristics of tenured professors: the quality and tested duration of teaching—ostensibly one of the main things they are hired...
...rating of teaching—often the primary gauge for teaching ability—fall short of providing a realistic picture of teaching skill in the classroom. Were Harvard to adopt a system like Swarthmore’s—whose tenure process asks students to write letters speaking to the teaching ability of candidates—teachers who truly inspire their students to intellectual pursuit would be as accredited as those who merely excel in the lab. Without this crucial component, Harvard’s tenure system, however marginally improved with the alteration of the blind letter system, will...