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First, according to The Crimson, Professor Thompson rejects "any suggestion that his status as a University official inflates his influence with other faculty members." Professor Thompson believes that "It is false and insulting to suggest that my colleagues in the government department would defer to me or anybody else in that way. Tenured faculty don't bow to anyone...
...Professor Thompson's objection betrays a misunderstanding of my grievance, a misconception about Harvard's own tenure review procedures, and more generally a failure to respect the ethics of procedure. As I pointed out in a letter of Nov. 9, 1998, to Associate Dean for Academic Affairs Carol J. Thompson, the good character of my colleagues in the Department of Government does not obviate the need for fair process in tenure review at Harvard (the letter, along with other pertinent documents, can be found at ). Indeed, recognition of the necessity for procedural safeguards, without reference to the quality in individual...
...example, one learns from Dean Thompson's own memo of March 27, 1998, concerning "The Tenure Appointment Process in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences," that regardless of individual character faculty associate deans routinely recuse themselves from matters touching on tenure review in their home departments. A letter to me and my advisor, Professor Charles Nesson of Harvard Law School, of Oct. 21, 1998, from Professor Roderick MacFarquhar, chair of the Department of Government, explains that in the composition of the ad hoc committee, "The Dean has the final word, presumably to ensure that no Department can pack the committee...
...hear the associate provost of Harvard University downplay the reach and significance of his administrative position. It is odd to witness the director of the Program in Ethics and the Professions depreciate the importance of fundamental norms of fair process. And it is false and insulting for Prof. Thompson to suggest that asking Harvard to respect its own procedures and the worthy principles embodied in them presents an affront to him or his colleagues...
Second, Prof. Thompson both obscures his actual role in my tenure review and contradicts a statement he made to The Crimson on Jan. 12, 1998, in his Dec. 14 statement to The Crimson. "I participated in the department as I normally do," Professor Thompson declared, "and I didn't play a role after [deliberations in] the department...