First Black Woman Harvard Undergrad Dean Pressurized into Quitting

The first black woman to be an undergraduate dean at Harvard University resigned under faculty pressure. Evelynn Hammond admitted checking faculty e-mail topics in an effort to discover the source of student cheating on take-out exams. Apparently faculty e-mail at Harvard traditionally is regarded as sacred and highly classified to protect the innocent, insider tips, sex favor trading for grades, special conspiracies or communications with foreign governments if anything such exists. Ms. Hammond didn't say if she discovered anything interesting among Harvard faculty-of-interest email, yet one wonders

http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2013/05/dean-release-july/

Ms. Hammond will stay on the faculty herself, and hopefully will use some kind of top-shelf encryption software for her own email.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/29/education/harvard-dean-in-e-mail-controversy-to-step-down.html?_r=0