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DIED. Walter Langer, 82, Boston-born psychoanalyst whose Freudian study of Adolf Hitler for the Office of Strategic Services in 1943 was used by Allied leaders as a guide to strategy during the remainder of World War II and was published 29 years later under the title The Mind of Adolf Hitler; in Sarasota, Fla. Langer, who interviewed former friends and associates of the Nazi dictator, characterized him as "probably a neurotic psychopath bordering on schizophrenia" and predicted his suicide...
Interestingly, the four departments that will gain a tenured woman next year--Anthropology (Sally Falk Moore). English (Marjorie Garber). Psychology and Social Relations (Ellen J. Langer, associate professor of Psych and Soc Rel), and History (Angeliki Laiou)--all were underutilizing. Department members decline to comment on whether gender played a role in those deliberations, though Rosovsky had met beforehand with the four and the underutilizing departments...
...repercussions when considering cases of promotion. "I think people will be more careful. The administration is putting on more pressure," one professor predicts. Another, who asked not to be identified, suggests that fears of a similar incident might have made the Psych and Soc Rel Department more sympathetic to Langer in its considerations this winter. And just months after Skocpol's complaint, Josephine Wright, assistant professor of Afro-American Studies, filed a complaint with the Equal Employment Opportunities Commission charging the University with discrimination on the basis of sex and race in denying her a one-year contract extension...
...Ellen J. Langer, associate professor of Psychology, said yesterday she will accept Dean Rosovsky's offer, made Thursday, to become a tenured professor of Psychology, pending Corporation approval...
...remains absent for more than two consecutive years... Harry R. Lewis '68, associate professor of Computer Science, will become the second McKay Professor of Computer Science in July. A junior faculty member here for seven years. Lewis will become the second tenured Computer Science professor...Ellen J. Langer, associate professor of Psychology, accepted an offer at the end of the week to become the only tenured female professor in the Psychology and Social Relations Department and the Faculty's 14th tenured woman professor...