Yes President Bok, Harvard is way too corporate …
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… and here is the latest example. Young Professor Luboš had a student
fall ill and unable to take the final exam so he arranged for a
colleague [whom I know and respect] to supervise the exam at home in
Central New York. Mr. President, this is precisely the kind of
flexibility we should be encouraging. But NOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!
Pf. Luboš attributes this to recalcitrance of the unions. He is by his
own admission a reactionary and a theorist [I can’t decide which is
worse :)] Being an experimentalist and Union Representative [HUCTW] I
told him that I am not sure the blame lies with my colleagues in HUCTW.
By and large, union members don’t make policy. Unlike my fellow Union
Representative Geoff Karens, I’m sure you know what a “Management
Rights” clause is and how it defines the dividing line between policy
and implementation.
There was another rather egregious case that occurred in your absense.
We had a homeless alumna living in the gates for more than a year [i.e.
two winters] while an army of administrators passed the buck. It was
Harvard Labor [Union and contract] that kept her from freezing to
death.
But detailed blame aside, I agree with Pf. Luboš that the response of administration, makes no sense whatsoever. May
I suggest that as a re-entry excercise, you get the student
h(is|er) grade. I will help you. Hopefully by the time you reach the
parties involved they will already be aware of the public interest in
this problem.
Sincerely yours,
the guy by the door
P.S.
Unless quantoken has a unique ability to measure tachyonic states, h(er|is) comment is totally wrong.
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