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Since then Silber has reshuffled the board of trustees so that many observers believe the board is only a rubber stamp. Helen B. Spaulding, a former trustee who was edged out this fall after disagreements with Silber, says that at B.U. the president chooses the trustees instead of the other way around. She says the 46 trustees--most of whom are successful businessmen--have little contact with students or faculty. Moreover, Silber has sometimes tried to isolate the trustees from other administrators, she says...
Most trustees disagree, and there appears to be strong support on the board for Silber. Just last month the trustees--incensed at what they considered inaccurate and biased reporting about the five professors facing disciplinary proceedings--bought full-page advertisements in The Boston Globe and Boston Herald-American to "set the record straight" and declare their "full confidence" in Silber. The ads reportedly cost...
...Chairman of the board of trustees is Arthur G.B. Metcalf, who is also president of Electronic Corporation of America. Metcalf and Silber are "Siamese twins" in outlook and philosophy, says Samuel Y. Edgerton, a professor of art history who adds that the trustees have an outdated vision of college life and see Silber as the last, best hope of maintaining that vision. Silber's toughness in dealing with students and professors may outrage the university community but it pleases the trustees, Edgerton notes...
...university hired Silber in 1971, shortly after he was fired from his position as dean of the University of Texas for running afoul of the conservative chairman of the Board of Regents. A vigorous supporter of civil rights and an ardent opponent of capital punishment, he was widely perceived as a liberal martyr and the B.U. presidential search committee thought he might be just the one to give B.U. a needed charge...
They got more than they bargained for. He insulted, antagonized, and offended professors who were used to kid-glove treatment. When a faculty union sprang up he refused to deal with it until compelled to do so by the National Labor Relations Board. After receiving criticism from the student press he approved a new publication policy preventing student activity fees from financing publications...