Word: opened
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...glad I took Peter's case as his advisor. I feel I have done this at considerable risk to myself because I open myself up to grave criticisms by my colleagues, by students, or whoever wants to criticize...
...done to him. On confidential advice of a wise man of Harvard, identified by Lingua Franca Magazine as Henry Rosovsky, Peter and I first sought redress by appealing quietly and respectfully to an obscure body called the Joint Committee on Appointments. We did not post this initial letter by Open Internet. The members of the Joint Committee on Appointments are drawn from the Corporation and Board of Overseers. At least technically and theoretically, they hold ultimate power over tenure cases. The President's great power in tenure matters is actually a delegated power from the Corporation and Overseers...
...facts and legal theories on which Peter could proceed. Our first objective was to conduct our own investigation sufficiently to warrant return with request for reconsideration to the Joint Committee, this time with sufficient muscle to induce the members of the committee to take our claim seriously. We used Open Internet as means of communicating and sharing information. By May 1998, we had completed a preliminary investigation, the fruits of which were posted on the Web. We had drafted a reconsideration petition, also posted on the Web. This time our petition was denied before it was even sent! In response...
...didn't know what at first to make of it. I like and trust Harvey, even though I know in formal institutional position he is on the President's team. I considered it to be possible that he was delivering a message from the central administration that it was open to resolving Peter's case if we chose to follow this procedure. The point is as simple as the Uncle Remus story about Brer Rabbit and the briar patch. Each thorn along the procedural way a prick to spark consciousness in a new Harvard audience, each a stopping point along...
...worst part is, it's really not so bad-at least it wouldn't be if everyone didn't continue to point out to me just how bad it is. Some of my relatives, who smilingly call our fall semester exam system "torture", unintentionally rub salt in an open wound. Most of the friends I've kept from high school are used to my touchiness on this issue by now. They still ask how long I'll be in town for, but they only raise their eyebrows or pat me comfortingly on the back in response. But by then...