Word: macked
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Recently, the Medical School faced a similar problem of academic freedom when Dr. John E. Mack, a tenured professor, authored a book about people who who claimed to have been abducted by alien creatures from outer space...
...unfortunate that those at the Medical School have chosen not to emulate Knowles' wise restraint. The Medical School administration last year formed an ad hoc committee to evaluate Mack's scholarship...
Simply by convening a committee to investigate Mack's work, the Medical School has set a terrible precedent. And the recent leaking of a letter on the matter, authored by Dean of the Medical School Daniel C. Tosteson '44, sheds further light on the controversy...
...reporting the loss and damage. She peppered her superiors with memos, suggested ways to improve security and raised concerns about the way the library police were handling crime scenes. Instructed to desist, she wrote more memos. She also sought help up the line, writing a letter to Senator Connie Mack, chairman of the appropriations subcommittee that oversees the library. Acknowledges Maceda, who has worked for the library's Protective Services Office for six years and has been in law enforcement since 1979: "I made a pain in the ass of myself...
...library. But in the end, her persistence was rewarded. Although she was unaware of it, an agreement to call in the U.S. Attorney's office and the FBI had been violated. In August, after Librarian of Congress James J. Billington received a harsh letter from Mack, he initiated an in-house investigation, acknowledging that there may have been security lapses at the country's largest and most valuable collection of books and documents. He also suspended the termination proceedings against Maceda. And last Friday, he announced a reorganization among the library's key administrators, including the top security manager...