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Many other stations, however, are just as firmly convinced that PBS President Lawrence Grossman, who sponsored the plan, has made serious mistakes in both math and logic. "The projected revenues are not realistic," complains Lloyd Kaiser, president of Pittsburgh's WQED. "They will add up to a very small amount of money for each station." John J. Iselin of New York's Channel 13 says that PBS might well have to borrow $100 million from banks and insurance companies just to set up the new venture. Even a supporter of the proposal like WETA's Chamberlin...
...someone who was denied tenure at Harvard just last winter, David E. Kaiser '69 doesn't seem unhappy...
That just may be possible. Unlike Harvard, where Kaiser taught History for 15 years, Carnegie-Mellon hires junior faculty "with the understanding that they will get tenure if they continue to perform at the same level," he says...
...Kaiser certainly seems to be performing--in addition to teaching 20th century international relations, he recently completed a book, "Economic Diplomacy and the Origins of the Second World War." He has also begun a study of the "question of European hegemony," a work he says stems from his years of teaching History 1331, "The Problem of Domination Over Europe," at Harvard...
Declining to comment on the History Department's decision to deny tenure to him and three other assistant professors last January, Kaiser says, "Let's just say I have no regrets about taking this job." --P.A.E...