Though some students and faculty have expressed a desire to view the contents of the Ad Board report, Hammonds said that the purpose of the document was to provide her with a body of potential recommendations and was never intended for public release.

“I looked through those recommendations and have tried to move forward on a number of them that could be done quickly and that I thought could be very beneficial to the students,” Hammonds said. “There are a set of other ones that will take much longer, and I didn’t really feel that those should be the ones that we should put those out for discussion without having a process for thinking about how we want to deal with those discussions and a process for having discussions and perhaps looking at legislation.”

UC presidential candidate George J.J. Hayward ’11, who is also a Crimson editor, said that although he understands that Hammonds maybe be hesitant to release the report if it contains any details about specific Ad Board cases, he believes that students and faculty should ultimately be informed of the committee’s proposals.

“In terms of the Ad Board Committee’s recommendations, Dean Hammonds has the right to weigh those recommendations and meet with her advisors and her staff and see which are confidential,” Hayward said. “Once those recommendations are decided upon and once they are moving forward, I think students should get the most transparent process possible.”

—Crimson staff writer Lauren D. Kiel can be reached at lkiel@fas.harvard.edu.

—Crimson staff writer Eric P. Newcomer can be reached at newcomer@fas.harvard.edu.