Word: liem
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Dunster House Master and Bigelow Professor of Ichthyology Karel F. Liem watched his "community" turn into a scene from "A House Divided." Students charged nepotism in tutor hiring, Liem attacked the accusers and students finally charged despotism...
...Liems were part of a controversy last year that featured allegations of nepotism in the hiring of several tutors. Last fall, eight Dunster tutors accused Vincent W. Li '87, assistant senior tutor in charge of hiring, of improperly influencing Karel Liem to hire Li's friends and relatives as tutors...
...Liems failed to take the steps necessary to rectify the situation and attempted to coverup the controversy. This cover-up consisted of a campaign aimed at silencing tutors in the House who were willing to speak against the unfair hirings. One tutor who has since left said, "[Karel] Liem trampled on all the principles of free speech and made many tutors and students afraid of speaking out." Liem was accused last year of threatening to fire tutors who criticized the hiring policies...
...Liem appears to have had sucess mending his reputation. A former tutor, David C. Bear '92, one of Liem's critics last year, said recently that Liem has "a good heart and good intentions...
...Karel Liem's actions last year have lost him the respect of some in Dunster House. His abuses of power were serious enough to merit him being denied the position of House Master again...