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...statement to The Crimson, Professor Thompson himself indicates that after playing is "usual role" in departmental deliberations he wrote his "customary letter" to Dean Knowles. But the very purpose of this "customary letter"-a confidential letter that is in fact a formal feature of tenure review in the FAS-is to enable all tenured faculty members to play a role in tenure review beyond departmental deliberations and have their candid opinions, unconstrained by pressures from colleagues, heard by the deans, the ad hoc committee, and the president...
Consequently, Professor Thompson's participation in my tenure review created a conflict of interest not only for his wife, the associate dean for academic affairs, but also for Jeremy Knowles, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and all the members of Dean Knowles's staff, including former faculty Associate Dean Peter Ellison, a scholar of the biological bases of behavior and a professor in the Department of Anthropology, who assembled the ad hoc committee that advised President Rudenstine on my tenure...
...unusually low tolerance for cant, double-talk and hypocrisy. But it is precisely these eccentricities that make him a good friend and an invaluable asset to the University. PETER BERKOWITZ Jan. 12, 1999 The writer is associate professor of government 13/01/1999 Editorial 10 Letters Tenure System Needs Review To the editors...
...have seen the tenure review system work unfairly against too many people. It becomes more distressing every time it happens. There comes a point where, even at the risk of being ridiculed within the Harvard community, I have to stand up and say something. The tenure review system is rotten, rooted in tyranny. It rests the credibility of Harvard on the unexplained, unarticulated, unreviewable judgment of a single man. It should be changed...
...decision that our complaint would not be considered by the Committee. In fact, so far as Peter and Matt Feinberg and I can tell based on our own inquires and investigation, Anne Taylor made no investigation whatever She seems simply to have concluded that there should be no review of the President's decision in the Case of Peter Berkowitz...