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LAST year a TV station in Washington D.C. ran a special report on their news show entitled "Is God Mad At Us?" The series took a look at why there seemed to be so many bad things happening in recent years--droughts, plane crashes, earthquakes. It wasn't a landmark piece of investigative journalism, no exclusive interview with the Big Guy. Instead, it consisted of asking theologians, clergy and disaster victims whether the Second Coming was about to take place. I don't know what the conclusions were...
Dean James Vorenberg '49, whose successor will direct the capital fund drive that will likely pay for the improvements suggested by the internal review, said the four subcommittees investigating various Law School programs--facilities, education, and financial aid--are almost ready to present their reports to a steering committee of the faculty. The steering committee will later report to the full faculty, which will give final approval to the plans...
...have learned some other unsavory tactics from the corporate world. In a discrimination case brought against the Business School by former Junior Professor Barbara Bund Jackson, questions have arisen about whether the administration purposely destroyed documents relevant to the trial. For a university in which the president issues a report posing his school as a top ethics instructor, this is hardly model behavior...
Equally discouraging is the state of minority hiring. According to a report by the Minority Students Alliance, the University has failed to aggressively recruit Black, Asian, and Hispanic scholars. Since 1980, the number of Black tenured professors has fallen from five to three, while junior professor positions have been reduced from eight to four. Admittedly, the pool of qualified Ph.d. candidates is small, but the University has made scant attempts to grab a bigger share of the pool or increase the size of the pool...
Holding Harvard to its own ethical standards is not just useless, philosophical casuistry. As Bok argues in his annual report, moral education must come from "efforts beyond the classroom." The University must therefore come to terms with its own conduct and deal honestly with fundraising, the union, and tenuring women and minorities...