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Eight tutors said last year Vincent Li had influenced Liem in the hiring of his brother, girlfriend and two longtime friends. Vincent Li was present at his brother's student interview...
Vincent W. Li '87, assistant senior tutor in charge of hiring, stepped down from the seven-member Advisory Board created this summer as part of Master Karel F. Liem's new tutor hiring process, Jewett said...
...about it? The tutors who complained to The Crimson last spring spoke with Jewett in two separate meetings earlier in the year. The student petition was also directed at Jewett. He has clearly tried to intervene on the margins of this affair. (Power also said that Jewett helped convince Liem to hold an open meeting of tutors and students last spring.) But his main comment on the subject last spring seemed to be that "if there are serious violations and intentional violations, then the master might feel action should be take. We will leave it up to the house master...
...leaving it up to the house master is precisely why all this happened in the first place. Last spring we said that Liem should resign and make way for a house master who cared more about the interests of Dunster students than protecting his own fiefdom. If anything Liem has now made the situation worse by subjecting all tutors to his arbitrary discrimination...
...anything can be worse than Liem's actions, it's Jewett's inaction. He has effectively endorsed the house master in his campaign to suppress free speech. His weakness in the face of clear wrongdoing raises the question of whether he is too ineffective to be dean of Harvard College...