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Realizing that the SAS had been treated unfairly, one of the SAC co-chairs called and apologized for having assigned us a representative who may have had a conflict of interest with us. She added that our grant was so small because our application had not been specific enough. It lacked the names of the speakers and movies we were planning to present. When our grant application was first submitted, Katz contacted us and asked for these specific names. Laila F. Sahyoun, then president of the SAS, gave Katz the information over the telephone. She offered to submit a written...
Bewildered and disappointed that we would not be able to hold the events we had planned, the SAS protested. We wrote a letter to the Harvard Foundation, requesting that they reconsider our grant application and investigate what we thought may have been a case of bias. Dr. Counter, the director of the Harvard Foundation, sent copies of our letter to Dean Knowles, Dean Jewett, and Dean Epps, whose committee on race relations oversees the Harvard Foundation...
Shortly afterwards, Dr. Counter wrote his own letter to Dean Epps, stressing that any implication of discrimination on campus should be investigated immediately. There was no reply. In December, a follow-up letter was written by the SAS and again circulated to the deans. Again there was no reply. Later in December, Dr. Counter wrote a second letter of his own. Sahyoun attempted to set up an appointment with Dean Knowles. She was referred to Dean Jewett, who in turn referred her to Dean Epps Finally, Dean Epps requested a meeting with Sahyoun and the new SAS President, Haneen...
After the first scheduled meeting was canceled by Dean Epps, Sahyoun, Rabie, and one other SAS member met with the Dean in the third week of January. He told us he had appointed a faculty committee to look into our complaint. When asked who the faculty members on the committee were, Dean Epps named Associate Professor Anne Harrington and Professor John Dowling. We later found out that Professor Harrington is on leave spring term. The meeting ended with Dean Epps' scheduling a hearing of our case for Thursday, February 4. He stressed that the matter had to be settled before...
...Wednesday, February 3, Sahyoun went to Dean Epps' office to confirm the time and place of the hearing for the faculty committee. Dean Epps' secretary told Sahyoun that there was nothing on the Dean's schedule pertaining to the SAS or the hearing. Sahyoun left a message with Epps' secretary and called again on the fourth. Meanwhile, Dr. Counter had also written a third letter to Dean Epps. The date for the hearing was finally set for today. Incidentally, Harvard Foundation grant applications are due today; but the Foundation will have to delay consideration of spring grants until Dean Epps...