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...unusual second vote came five months after an ad hoc committee of experts convened to advise President Derek C. Bok differed with the department's initial recommendation to tenure the former associate professor, Robert N. Watson...
...assume this resolution means that the department does not intend to advance a new argument based on evidence not available to the previous ad hoc committee," said one ranking administrator who spoke on condition of anonymity...
...department simply reaffirmed its faith in Watson," said Gurney Professor of English Literature Jerome H. Buckley. "Having reviewed objections that some people from outside--the ad hoc committee and so forth--had to the appointment, the department decided to reaffirm its endorsement," he said...
...think the department wants to reinstitute an ad hoc committee or anything," Buckley said...
English Department members have alleged that the ad hoc committee that reviewed Watson held the 33-year-old academic to standards of scholarly output and reputation unrealistic for one so young...