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...wouldn't say so specifically, but his memo was apparently prompted in part by the appointments last month of two new deans, both white males who were hired directly in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Dean Rosovsky insisted that the appointment of one of the men, Francis M. Pipkin, the new associate dean of the Faculty for Harvard and Radcliffe Colleges, was not in violation of the affirmative-action plan because while Pipkin's deanship is primarily administrative, he remains a professor of Physics as well and his new job is teaching-related and therefore exempt from the direct...
...certainly easy to see Rosovsky's point--he had specific qualifications in mind for the person who would fill Pipkin's job, qualifications he must have sincerely believed would make for the best possible dean. He wanted a tenured faculty member for the post, one who knew about Harvard and one in the natural sciences; under such severely limited circumstances, it would have been pointless for him to list the post with Personnel, since he would have had to turn down any non-Harvard candidates who applied...
...deanship with supervisory power over all undergraduate education and administration, to be titled "associate dean of the Faculty for Harvard College." Horner convinced him to change the title to "associate dean of the Faculty for Harvard and Radcliffe Colleges," and before the announcement of the appointment of Francis M. Pipkin, professor of Physics, to the post, got a big kick out of answering reporters' queries about "what this new guy is like" by saying, "How do you know it isn't a woman?" Horner is probably responsible in large measure for Rosovsky's change in his conception of the deanship...
Rosovsky and Bok would not comment Saturday on Pipkin's appointment, but Rosovsky said the new dean "has as much administrative experience as I did when I became dean...
...Pipkin, who was unavailable for comment yesterday, was born in Marianna, Ark., in 1925 and graduated from Iowa State University in 1950. He received his master's degree at Princeton University in 1952 and his Ph.D. there in 1954. He has been professor of Physics since...