Word: administrationitis
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Leonard Blocksberg, professor of social work, received a similar letter, but sources said the action against him was unrelated to the letters sent to the other five professors. Blocksberg yesterday declined to say why the administration was taking action against him.
The administration of Boston University (B.U.) has begun procedures to fire or suspend five tenured B.U. professors because they refused to cross picket lines of striking clerical workers earlier this fall.
"They seem to be shooting at those of us who stand up for our rights and who protest the autocratic procedures of the administration," he added.
The contract between B.U. and its faculty allows the administration to fire or suspend tenured professors "upon gross neglect of duties, or other just cause."
The Faculty did debate--somewhat--the effects of a one-to-one female ratio, which the administration had predicted as a possible outcome of the merger. Though no Faculty member explicitly opposed the merger--with the exception of what Ford calls a few "curmudgeonly old misogynists"--many professors worried that...