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Most of the facts in John A. Cloud's editorial, "No Time for an Ideal" (April 22), are accurate, but his suggestion that the Winthrop House student pre-law tutor selection committee was unfair is untrue. As he said, a student committee of eight, including six women, two African Americans and one Asian American, considered the applications of and interviewed four candidates for the position of chief pre-law advisor. I served as the tutor advisor to the committee and did not have voting privileges...
...house administration decided to limit the initial search for a chief pre-law advisor to the current non-resident law tutors for two reasons. First, it strengthens the tutorial system to give non-resident tutors the first shot at resident positions. Second, and most important, since the chief pre-law advisor oversees the entire pre-law advising program, a cumbersome bureaucratic process, it was imperative that the person have experience in advising and specific experience with Winthrop's advising system...
...RECENTLY formed Winthrop House Pre-Law Resident Tutor Selection Committee, however, facing such difficulty, spending extra time and doing more work to fight inequality are too much...
...weeks ago, I was asked to join this seven-person selection committee (I was one of only two men; two Blacks also served on the committee) to find a new resident tutor for pre-law advising. The director of the search, a house administrator who was not a voting committee member, submitted four applicants' names and resumes for the committee's review interviews were conducted, and the committee made its recommendations. But that...
Among the four applicants for the job were no women. One Black male and one Asian-American male applied, as did two white males. All were Harvard Law School students currently serving as non-resident pre-law tutors...