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Signaling the first public involvement of the GSD faculty in a controversy that enveloped the school last month, the departmental faculty unanimously passed a resolution in mid-March asking the committee of chairmen to inform Bok of the "atmosphere of tension and distrust" at the school and "to request a full investigation...
However, the unrestrained praise for McCue, who is said to possess an exceptional combination of administrative, academic and professional experience, has not silenced rumblings of discontent that broke into the open at the GSD last month. These feelings have since returned to their customary sub-surface position...
Confirmation of McCue's widely rumored appointment may be a factor in the recent quiescence at the school. Several faculty said this week that critics of the GSD and its dean, Maurice D. Kilbridge, may be tempering their public words and actions so McCue will not arrive and immediately be forced to take sides in a polarized school...
Although McCue is coming from a school that he portrays as the opposite of hierarchical Harvard ("We don't stand on titles," he says about Berkeley), he does seem aware of the intracacies of GSD politics and of the specific dangers involved in his appointment as both an administrator and departmental advocate...
McCue has not mastered all of the GSD's ins and outs. Last month, shortly after he agreed to leave California the controversy over Kilbridge struck...