Storm Clouds Over the Review
At Harvard, the Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences
has voted overwhelmingly against key elements of the curricular review.
According to Professor Harry Lewis, quoted in the Crimson, DEAS took a vote on the review now because, essentially, they wanted to send a shot across the bow—better a cautionary vote now than a flat-out rejection later.
I'm sure that's true...but I wonder if this shot won't hit the ship itself. Allow me to mix metaphors: This sinking ship is stumbling to the finish line, which makes you wonder if somebody shouldn't pull the plug on it.
(Sorry. That was terrible.)
I just find it hard to imagine that Bill Kirby—never all that popular with his constituency anyway—will, in his lame-duck status, wield the political capital necessary to pass a bad review.
Unless, perhaps, somehow he can frame a vote for the review as a sign of support for the autonomy of the FAS.....
