Word: janusch
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When the Buettner-Januschs moved to Greenwich Village in 1973, lured by one of the highest salaries paid an NYU chairman, they entertained frequently in their Washington Square apartment. Buettner-Janusch, a gourmet cook, was well-known for serving meals of impeccable taste. Larger gatherings, guests remember, were catered and attended to by a butler and maid...
...Buettner-Janusch had a great zest for life, for all the beautiful things. Everything he did had an exaggerated, posh New York air," Gary says...
...Great Gatsby style of these affairs, the posh aristocratic excesses of Buettner-Janusch's daily life, made it all the more difficult for many to believe the accusations of wrongdoing. Indeed, some say that his luxurious lifestyle contributed to the university's continued support of Buettner-Janusch in the face of faculty criticism and, eventually, accusations of drug manufacturing. When the chairman was indicted for making LSD and Quaaludes in his lab, NYU refused to suspend him, saying they preferred to wait before making a decision on the future of this valued member of their staff...
...what with his beautiful apartment on Washington Square, his wealthy wife, his catered Thanksgiving and Christmas parties. For academics, it was high living. The deans and administrators were very impressed," says Charles Leslie, an anthropology professor who, while he was at NYU, was vocal in his protests of Buettner-Janusch's conduct...
However, NYU Professor of History and Sociology Norman Cantor, who was dean of the faculty during Buettner-Janusch's chairmanship, maintains that the university was responsive to faculty complaints. "In the spring of 1979 I personally interviewed every member of that department. Only a very small number thought he was abrasive and difficult to get along with. If the majority had opposed him, he would not have been reappointed as chair," he says...