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Signers pledged not to assist B.U. in usual administrative functions such as evaluating applicants for positions at the university until the situation is resolved, Salvador E. Luria, an Institute professor emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.), who wrote the letter, said yesterday...
Copies of the letter were circulated at Harvard, M.I.T., Tufts, Wellesley, Boston College, Northeastern and the University of Massachusetts at Boston, but letters of support have been received from Williams, Johns Hopkins, Princeton and other universities, Luria added...
Signers of the letter will still perform academic services such as giving lectures--but they will decline offers to serve on visiting committees or write letters of recommendation for B.U. positions, Luria said...
...Luria said Mary Nolan, assistant professor of History, and Everett I. Mendelsohn, professor of History of Science, are coordinating the effort to circulate the letter at Harvard. Nolan and Mendelsohn were unavailable for comment yesterday...
Referring to Luria as "this jerk across the river," Bergenheim said a small group of vociferous Silber critics had blown the issue way out of proportion and that the professors were inflaming tensions by making irresponsible statements...