Word: processes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...course of interviews, two main themesemerged as factors working against Harvard'sjunior women faculty in their bid for tenure.First, women hold more positions of administrativeresponsibility in their departments, positionsthat often take time away from their scholarship.They say these extra duties are not taken intoaccount during the tenure review process...
...says Professor of German Maria M. Tatar,the chairman of the Germanic Languages andLiterature Department. Hiring decisions at Harvardare often based on a single criterion--the amountand quality of published research. And faculty saythat the other skills Harvard's junior womenfaculty have cultivated are consequently devaluedin the tenure decision process, as a result ofthis reliance on the candidate's bibliography...
Women faculty members say the Spence plan,while directed at an admirable goal, will notaffect the percentage of female senior facultybecause prejudices against women remain embeddedin the decision-making process...
...sure, one of the limitations of student journalism is the editing process. Perhaps some of my statements were originally correct and used in context, but were shuffled and distorted in the wee hours of the night. This is unfortunate, but forgiveable. What is unforgiveable, however, is the hyped misrepresentation of a sensitive and volatile issue, which leads to further entrenchment and hostilities. If articles like this one become a regular part of the final club debate, it will be a cold day in Bangladesh before it takes place on a rational and thoughtful level. Michael A. Zubrensky...
Perhaps Reagan, JFK and FDR are to blame for this travesty of the political process. The efforts of these three men so finely tuned modern political tools of mass communication that we've forgotten that presidents are just citizens. Now, they're just an electron-etched face placed next to a bust of Lincoln. Let's face it, we're spoiled. Candidates have to meet our mass-culture image of the presidency to be considered worthy of our vote...