Word: reviewable
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There is also need for systematic review of those decisions with impacts across departmental lines, if not on the whole faculty...
...Committee recommends that greater use be made of more general ad hoc committees which might be convened periodically for a department, a group of departments, or related specialties in order to review policies and problems, discuss anticipated vacancies, canvass eligible candidates, and endorse a list of names for possible appointment. Such general ad hoc committees, not confined to the review of a single recommendation, could also elicit independent judgment about the needs of a whole area of knowledge, suggest expansion into areas in which talent is available, and recommend withdrawal from other areas. This procedure should reduce the total number...
While this is not a new problem, the Committee recommends that each department review its practices as they affect this relationship. Teaching responsibilities, committee assignments, research opportunities, space allocations, closer relations with senior colleagues, and measures to assist placement no doubt all affect the atmosphere of a department and its attractiveness to young scholars...
...tradition of departmental autonomy is inviolable here, and predictably the Committee does not try to tell the History or Government departments how they should behave toward their junior faculty. It recommends merely "that each department review its practice as they affect this relationship," and that Dean Ford request the results of these reports from certain departments. Instructors cannot vote now in the Faculty; and the Committee would retain that rule, requiring three years of service from an assistant professor before he is given the vote...
...first monologue appeared in the April 1967 issue of Esquire under the title A Jewish Patient Begins His Analysis. It is a short, tame outline of Portnoy's problems. Things loosened up in a hurry with the 6,000-word installment published last August in Partisan Review; called Whacking Off, it is a frantic confession of boyhood sin. Portnoy recalls how, as an adolescent, he always had to please his parents publicly, while he privately and obsessively masturbated to please himself; this experience sentenced him to a chronic condition of shame, which he begs his analyst to cure...