GSD Case to Spur Deans' Discussion Of Grievance Plan

President Bok will ask the Council of Deans early next month to consider setting up procedures for handling hiring-related grievances cases, Bok said yesterday.

The move represents one of the University's first responses to last month's release of the Hartman Review Committee's report, which recommends "serious consideration" of such grievance procedures.

The 300-page Hartman Committee report came out five years after Chester W. Hartman '57, then an assistant professor of City Planning, formally charged that personal and political considerations had dominated the Graduate School of Design's decision not to rehire him.

Bok also said that he will ask the Council of Deans to consider if the University should set up rules to ensure cooperation with official investigations like that of the Hartman committee. The Hartman panel charged in its report that several GSD faculty members hindered its investigation of Hartman's charges.

Execrable' Procedures

Bok said he has asked Maurice D. Kilbridge, dean of the GSD, to report to him by December 31 how the School has altered its appointments procedures since 1970. The Hartman panel termed these procedures "execrable." 6