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Chave, who teaches Literature and Arts B-16: "Modern Art and Abstraction" (better known as "Spots and Dots"), filed the grievance in the fall after President Derek C. Bok overrode departmental recommendations and awarded the Pulitzer Professor of Modern Art chair to Johns Hopkins University Professor Yves-Alain Bois.
Chave's most serious charge, though, was that Bok submitted to pressure from Emily and Joseph Pulitzer, the donors of the chair. The Pulitzers are supporters of Bois and have strong scholarly disagreements with Chave.
By the time they reach college, men and women are loaded with cultural baggage, drawn from movies, television, music videos and "bodice ripper" romance novels. Over the years they have watched Rhett sweep Scarlett up the stairs in Gone With the Wind; or Errol Flynn, who was charged twice with...
Du Bois served as the president of the Association for Asian Studies from 1969-70 before she was "recalled to service" at Harvard for the fall term of 1971. In 1972, she became a professor at large at Cornell University.