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Also ranking in the top five were University of Florida, with 48 violent crimes; the University of Maryland at College Park, with 46; the University of California at Berkeley, with 45; and the University of Oklahoma, with...
...government investigation began in 1978 with compliance review conducted by HEW--now the Department of Health and Human Services--prior to the renewal of a $1 million contract with the Naval Biosciences Dept. at the university's Berkeley campus. Suspicious of possible affirmative action violations in other departments, the investigators requested records from six faculty hiring and promotion committees. All of the committees refused to comply, citing reasons of confidentiality and academic freedom...
...Berkeley, Labor Department officials would not permit University of California officials to delete any portion of the documents...
Last week, as Berkeley neared its deadline, the university proposed a compromise limiting access to any documents forwarded to Labor and guaranteeing their return. Otherwise the school is pre pared to sue to keep its funds flowing. In the thick of the bureaucratic battle, Berkeley Chancellor Ira Michael Heyman told TIME: "It's very hard for a single campus to confront the whole federal system. I'd like to see the issue of disclosure of such confidential documents addressed by large research universities, which unite and use their power against the Federal Government...
Already, many Berkeley departments warn faculty members when sending out requests for peer-review letters that the information requested in confidence may eventually be divulged-as a result of Government actions. One department chairman recalls that eight of ten people asked to write appraisals of one recent tenure candidate did not reply. What troubles professors and department heads is that the reluctance of faculty members to make appraisals now seems strongest in the cases of the weakest-and potentially most litigious-tenure candidates...