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...tenure process--which Rosovsky said judges candidates primarily on "scholarly output" and "good teaching performance"--was designed to consider candidates with long records in academia and whose published work is often the most important "input" into the decision. Here the system was faced with a talented 31-year-old woman who had only one, incomplete manuscript to show for her years at Harvard. In the back of everyone's mind, one professor said, was the psychological effect of the affirmative action program, making her appoinment more likely and helping her to obtain a unanimous recommendation in October...
...problems. Student government is weakest at the University-wide level. Students serving on the CHUL or the CUE have no institutional relationship with the 13 Houses from which they are elected. Few people in the Houses know what their representatives are doing and the House committees have no formal input into the University-wide committees. Members of the CHUL will sometimes conduct a referendum in the Houses to measure student opinion on certain issues, but even with the occasional referendum, student government at the University level remains largely inscrutable. This is due not only to the committee structure but also...
...THEN everything exploded. At a June public hearing to get community input on the project, residents of Mission Hill (acting outside their Harvard approved bargaining unit) erupted in anger, stopping the meeting before it ever got started, vowing to kill the plant project even if they too, not surprisingly. They still had hops for their own power plant. They cited flaws in the environmental study...
...statement is not an adequate or accurate study of the plant and its potential environmental dangers. The Boston Redevelopment Authority which has final say on whether the plant be built should commission another study, this time with a more thorough examination of plant alternatives and proper Mission Hill community input. If this input, easily obtained by talking to the Mission Hill Planning Commission, which represents the whole region, had previously been utilized, the environmental study may have reached a different conclusion regarding the plant's feasibility...
Myers said that the members of his group are writing a minority report to insure that it knows "who is going to be our representative" on the admissions committee and to make sure that "we will have input in choosing students...