Word: kagan
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...saga began four years ago when then dean of Yale College, professor Donald Kagan, a vocal champion of the study of Western Civilization, helped inspire the $20 million donation from Bass, a 1979 graduate of Yale. Bass, whose family had given a total of $85 million to Yale by the early '90s, agreed to fund seven new full professorships and four associate positions in Western...
...money came at a particularly sensitive moment. Kagan had alienated many faculty members through his speeches about excessive liberalism and with his support of faculty cutbacks. "The donation was seen as a weapon in the hands of someone who had an autocratic style as dean," says Comparative Literature professor Michael Holquist, who, along with Comp Lit chairman Peter Brooks, was one of the earliest and most open critics of the Bass-funded program. The problem was that "the money was being given to support Kagan," says Holquist. "In the academy, it's always a clash of egos." Even those...
Richard Levin, who became president in 1993, and his provost then compounded the problem by trying to retain as much of the $20 million as they could for the university's core endowment. They favored filling the four junior positions with existing faculty. Kagan and other original planners of the program resigned from the committee, and a new one was formed. In a colossal blunder, Levin failed to inform Bass of these changes, and when the new group expressed concerns, the members were told, according to a university source, "Don't worry about the donor...
...irony is that many of Kagan's detractors on campus are also great advocates of Western Civ. Another is that by implying that multiculturalism, rather than clashing egos and tightfisted administrators, was interfering with Bass's gift, the Wall Street Journal editorial writers helped ensure the demise of a program that would have strengthened Yale's classical curriculum...
...project to provide wireless phone service. Time Warner and TCI are archrivals, yet they have teamed with Sega of America to form the Sega Channel, which could go out over the companies' superhighways. Entanglements like these have given rise to a new term: coopetition. Notes communications consultant Jeffrey Kagan: ``It can be very difficult to share secrets with a partner and keep them away from a competitor when they're one and the same company...