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These are all good signs, but that is all they are. If Liem, Jewett and the University Administration truly wish to regain the confidence of the students and tutors they let down last spring, they must do the following things...
Place at least one undergraduate member on the new advisory committee and academically diversify the remaining membership. Under the current system, the people whose lives are affected most by tutors have the least say in selecting them. The advisory committee as it now stands is packed with natural scientists (Liem's own background) ill-suited to select tutors with a broad range of interests and backgrounds. In fact, there is already a gross disparity among tutor fields in Dunster. In a house packed with humanities and social science concentrators, English tutors are scarce and science tutors abound...
...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...