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handle is hein.journals/hlrec116 and id is 1 raw text is: APPS ARE UP: m Alterman examines the t noises coming out of the admissions office. See p.3 THE RECORD DUANE DOLLARS: IL Andy Oldham won the T.J. Duane Community Building Scholarship See p.3 The Independent Weekly Newspaper at Harvard Law School i.HLRECORD.ORG VOLUME I I 6 NO. I THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 2003 Faculty feeling left out of dear /selection process No matter who fills this office next year, it looks like much of the faculty will have had no say in it. by MATHEW PARKE In the search for a new Dean, the Harvard Law School faculty may be get- ting left out of the process. The faculty has tabled further discussion regarding whether they ought to follow a faculty resolution requiring them to elect their own Dean Search Committee. The resolution was adopted by a four-to-one vote in 1985, and was used for the first time in 1989 during the selection process leading to Dean Clark's appointment. At that time Prof. Laurence Tribe praised the process, calling it the first decision-mak- ing body selected from the HLS faculty designated to be representative of a broad spectrum of viewpoints. Authority to appoint the deans of all Harvard schools ultimately rests with the President of the University. Instead of rely- ing on the faculty committee, President Lawrence Summers has already selected an advisory group consisting of nine Harvard Law School faculty members (Profs. Charles Fried, Lani Gumier, Christine Jolls, Louis Kaplow, Randall Kennedy, Frank Michelman, Martha Minow, Mark Roe and Laurence Tribe) and two professors from the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Faculty members tell The RECORD this advisory group was put together without consulting the faculty as a whole. The faculty subsequently met in December to discuss what some viewed as President Summers' disregard of the 1985 resolution. But in January, the faculty voted to table the issue rather than take action. No faculty member contacted by The RECORD was willing to say how the vote broke down. The origins of the 1985 resolution lie with Dean Vorenberg's appointment of a committee to study deanship selection. That committee consisted of Professors David Shapiro, Lou Sargentich, Todd Rakoff and Vern Countryman, who acted as chair. The Countryman Committee pro- posed that the faculty use a proportional representation voting system to elect a six- person committee. The elected committee, to be known as the Faculty Dean Search Committee, would then conduct a search among qualified candidates and make a final recommendation to the University President. In their report, the Countryman committee wrote that involving an elect- ed committee increases the likelihood that the voice heard by the central administra- tion will be one that better reflects all our Please see DEAN, p. 2 ITS continues battle with e-mail woes by JONAS BLANK For Harvard Law students, January is the time for winter term classes (or IL exams), miserable weather and soon-to-be-broken New Year's resolutions. For the last two years, it has also been time for massive e-mail problems. Unfortunately, this year's irrecovable loss of an entire day of mail made last year's service interruptions look minor. On Friday, January 24, Information Technology Services Director Jane # Sulkin sent an e-mail to all HLS users informing them that they had just lost an entire day of mail, beginning Thursday, January 23 at I a.m. and extending until Friday at 2:30 a.m. Due to a glitch in Harvard University Information Services' (UIS) CAMail system - which replaced the aging OpenMail system that caused last year's trouble -the system deleted every HLS e-mail account. It was a costly error but a very common error, Sulkin said of the problem, which involved a failure of the software to provide adequate data integrity checking. While a robust system of data backups ensured that all but the January 23 mail could be restored, many off-campus students are still experiencing prob- lems. Some can only send mail to other HLS accounts, while still others can- not connect to the system at all. We think it's probably something to do with the security settings on the server side. Sulkin said. One problem ITS faces that typical corporate users do not is the diversity of e-mail programs and software operating systems used by students. Because there are so many different software combinations being used by HLS students, Sulkin said, individual problems are difficult to pin- point. Darin Sands/RECOR What is most frustrating for ITS in this situation is that the switch to Accessing your e-mail on these loathesome machines is likely to be more Please see E-MAIL, p. 2 difficult than ever these next few weeks. Inside: Mellow your muscles: Angela Wu says that yoga not only can make you healthy, but give you per- spective, too. See p.6 Burly Biker Boyz: Anika Simmons looks past all the macho stuff to find a fairly decent Come out of in cold: Jeff Leven's February concert offerings that make braving the weather Beaujolais truths: He doesn't like it much, but Josh Solomon makes sure you know what's up See p.9 with the stuff. See p.10 I I) movie. See p.7 worth it.

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