After the faculty overwhelmingly voted to keep Monday's vote on the grade inflation proposal public, Dean of the Faculty David Dobkin approached a 'Prince' photographer and told him to "destroy" photos of the faculty voting. Another official had already pulled the photographer aside.
"I told him that I didn't want him to include pictures of the vote," Dobkin said in an interview later. "It's a private meeting, and it's a private vote."
Faculty bylaws say "meetings of the faculty shall normally be open for attendance as observers to representatives of the campus press."
English professor John Fleming '63 had requested that the vote on the proposal be by secret ballot to protect junior faculty, but Wilson School professor Christopher Eisgruber '83, the incoming provost, argued for the vote to be public, saying a secret vote would only lead to speculation.
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