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...precisely by participating in departmental deliberations in the normal fashion after becoming associate provost of the University (in September of 1996 shortly before my tenure review began) that Prof. Thompson compromised the integrity of the tenure review process. For by opposing my tenure in the Department of Government in his role as professor while serving in the office of President Rudenstine, the final judge in tenure review at Harvard, Prof. Thompson violated the fundamental norm of procedural fairness that prohibits one from serving as both judge and party to a cause...
Professor Thompson pointed out that "he did not appear before the ad hoc committee, as he was out of town on the day it met." But this hardly settles the question of whether he participated in the tenure review after departmental deliberations...
Indeed, in his Jan. 12 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...
Third, in the Dec. 14 Crimson, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs Carol J. Thompson declared in response to the charge that her husband, as associate provost of the University and a member of the Office of the President, stands in a supervisory relation to her in her official position in the Office of the Dean, "None of his functions in any way relate...
...easy to see, however, that Dean Thompson is mistaken...