Word: harnett
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Advanced Standing students who are beginning their third year of residence found an unpleasant surprise buried in their reams of registration literature last week-a letter from David A. Harnett, director of Advanced Standing, stating an apparently new rule: "It is expected Advanced Standing students will ordinarily have completed all their A.B. degree requirements (concentration, General Education, etc.) by the end of their sixth term in residence." Attached to the letter was a questionnaire asking for detailed information on each student's progress in fulfilling Gen Ed and departmental requirements...
...Harnett himself is beginning his second year as director of the Advanced Standing office. Christopher Wadsworth, the former Director who has since left Harvard, had never mentioned any ruling to this effect. According to Wadsworth, any Advanced Standing student could have postponed until his fourth year as many degree requirements as he wished. When Harnett was questioned on this change in policy, he replied glibly, "It's not a new ruling. It's always been there. Wadsworth never paid any attention to it but we've [I've] fished it out and think it's important...
...reads closely the 1969-70 (pre-Harnett) edition of the Advanced Standing pamphlet, one might argue that the fish which Harnett caught does in fact exist. The important issue is that even if this fish was once alive, in practice it has long been dead. Wadsworth, as Harnett freely admitted, never took note of it. Instead, Wadsworth frequently encouraged Advanced Standing students to take two sophomore, two junior, or two senior years and thus remain at Harvard for a fourth year of academic flexibility. Harnett, on the other hand, seems bent on pushing students into graduate school work in their...
...ISSUE becomes whether an administrator taking over an office such as Advanced Standing can by himself drastically reinterpret the office's regulations. Harnett's action is certainly disfunctional to those trying to create an atmosphere of genuine student-Faculty-administration cooperation and consultation. Harnett did not ask the Faculty to debate his reinterpretation. And obviously, Harnett did not take upper-class Advanced Standing students into consideration, many of whom agreed to sign the Advanced Standing contract two or more years ago, with a very different idea of what was expected of them...
...might hope that Harnett would have at least have informed his boss, Dean May, of the change. When asked Wednesday about Harnett's reinterpretation, May said, "This is the first I have ever heard of it." May is not only Harnett's boss, but actually reappointed Harnett to his post when he became dean of the College...