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...While Dean of the College Harry Lewis states that he does not know the exact reason for the difference in wording, he posits that certain categories of protection are omitted from the student organization non-discrimination policy because it "would not make sense to prohibit the membership clause of a student organization from using" them. Indeed, it is particularly "obvious," according to Lewis, why the student organization policy fails to protect individuals from discrimination based on "political belief." "No one would want Harvard to discriminate in admissions or hiring on the basis of whether one were a member...
...Dean Lewis refused to comment on whether Harvard's non-discrimination policy would protect a student in a situation similar to Catalano's, noting that such a situation "has not arisen in practice, at least in the past five years" and that the "factual details about [such a] case… [would] influence how the policies apply." This unwillingness to confirm that Harvard's non-discrimination policy protects students from discrimination based upon belief is, at best, disconcerting. As students we ought not settle for a policy that may or may not protect an individual from being forced to renounce...
...Even at Harvard, when I was a freshman, they allowed UC reps to interview prospects for an assistant freshman dean's post," Barkley says. "I think that any candidate worthy of Harvard's presidency should want to be interviewed by some of its students." Barkley also criticized some of Rudenstine's responses from last week's Days of Dialogue event...
While Conant had brought the University to the forefront of educational reform, Harvard's commitment to its religious roots had waned over his tenure. Shortly after Conant's resignation, the Dean of the Divinity School also resigned, leaving the institution with only three professors and a handful of part-time instructors...
...Deborah and Russ are both tremendously talented students in Computer Science...They are both superb teachers," wrote Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis '68 in an e-mail message. "These are the kinds of people that would come around once in a decade at most other schools; here we have two of them in the same class year...