Shameful Award

The following is an open letter addressed to Dean of the Kennedy School of Government Graham T. Allison Jr. '62.

Harvard University produces its share of surprises, but few equal the news that the Kennedy School has awarded a medal for public sevice to Attorney General Edwin Meese.

It is certainly true, as you are quoted as having said, that Meese has demonstrated a real interest in political appointments, but surely not dominated by a concern for competence. At present he seems busily engaged in suborning on political grounds the Federal judiciary. The evidence that emerged during the Senate's confirmation proceedings left little basis for confidence in Meese's public service, integrity or honesty.

It's bad enough to have him as our Attorney General, but to have him given a medal by a branch of Harvard University named for John F. Kennedy!-"have you no shame, Sir?" George Wald   Higgins Professor of Biology Emiritus