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...strengths of the currently existingdepartment at Harvard--the scholarship andrenown...the vitality of the junior and visitingprofessors...the strength of the undergraduate andgraduate products of the department...are not tobe abandoned lightly," said Yale's linguisticsdepartment chair Lawrence R. Horn in a letter ofcomplaint to Wolff...
...according to Horn, the administrativepretext at Harvard is similar to the one presentedat Yale last year. But in Yale's case, saidHorn--who is also on the executive committee ofthe LSA--the administration was moving to cutcosts, dropping several departments...
...Linguistics Department at Harvard seems tohave been singled out," Horn says. "[Professor ofLinguistics Susumu] Kuno and Watkins are close toretirement and there is no commitment to thejunior professors...They [Harvard administrators]don't see a downside to this decision...
...Horn says the Harvard and Yale administrations"feel as if they know best...and they're not goingto be dissuaded by experts...
...there's not a department," says Horn,"there needs to be a program with its ownbudgetary lines...