Word: liems
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Replace Liem as the third chair of the pre-med committee with someone now connected with the affair. Liem appointed himself to this post at last Wednesday's meeting, but students need a pre-med chair not implicated in this affair...
Change the rationale that Liem announced will now be used to decide whether or not to hire (or retain) tutors. Dismissing someone for being "disruptive to the House community" or a "poor role model" or for their "inability to work in a team setting" leaves a lot of room open for arbitrary decisions and, by implication, seems to discourage the free exchange of ideas. Using these criteria, the Li brothers should have been fired a long time ago. Liem should lay out specific, objective criteria and stick to them...
Remove Vincent and William Li from Dunster House. Regardless of the issue of nepotism, anyone with the poor judgment to threaten libel suits against those who criticized their behavior last spring should be in no position to act similarly vindictively towards undergraduates or other tutors. Karel Liem has endorsed their actions, but the Li brothers are the ones directly responsible for the atmosphere in Dunster House, an atmosphere in which tutors are threatened and pre-medical students remain silent for fear that their applications will be sabotaged. Neither of the Lis has made any move to apologize. Neither has demonstrated...
...Finally, Liem must go. Two weeks of glasnost do not make up for six months of fear. He did what he had to do at the behest of the Administration. His past favoritism for the Li brothers and his past witchhunts for people who spoke out on the issue cannot be forgotten. It is our hope that Liem will see the writing on the wall and retire gracefully to his lab. Failing that, the Harvard administration should learn a few lessons itself and force Liem...
Last week a Crimson reporter called Master Karel F. Liem's office and asked to leave a message. The secretary agreed, but then the reporter started to spell his name...