Klein, Op. Cit.

The Crimson received a copy of the following letter this week:

Dear Dean Rosovsky

We are both disturbed and discouraged by the recent action of the Department of Government in denying promotion to Assistant Professor Ethel Klein. We have come to know Professor Klein well over the past two years. We have discussed and exchanged our work; we have had lengthy conversations with her on scholarly and pedagogical matters; we have talked on occasion with various of her students.

We are convinced that Professor Klein is a superb teacher, a scholar of genuine accomplishment, and a colleague of rate generosity. She is also one of the few faculty on this campus who appears to take seriously the study of gender as a dimension of social organization and politics. The denial of promotion, gartioularly to a bon-tenured position, seems to us to call into question the University's commitment to the hiring and promotion of women, to the rigorous study of gender, and to high quality teaching. At the very least, given her record, it reminds junior faculty that putting time and effort into teaching is a risky investment at Harvard.

We urge the University to reconsider this decision. Stephen E. Cornell   Assistant Professor of Sociology   Julio Samuel Valenzuela   Assistant Professor of Sociology   Jeff A. Weintraub   Assistant Professor of Sociology and Social Studies   Kiku Adatto   Assistant Professor of Sociology