Word: mayers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...leaving the building's grounds around 5 p.m. Mayer told a group of students. "People aren't given tenure on the basis of how loudly they can shout into a microphone...
Last spring, the university's Tenure and Promotion Committee recommended Dreier--a self-proclaimed social activist--for tenure, but in May Mayer overturned the decision. Dreier's appointment ends at the end of the semester...
Protesters chanted, "Jean Mayer, we're on fire! We want tenure for Peter Dreier!" and sang sons from Bob Marley and the Beatles...
...organizers said this type of protest was the only recourse left after Mayer had refused for a full year to meet with students about Dreier's tenure...
Because of the wide variety of support which had poured in for Dreier, students had felt confident that the professor would be rehired. "All of January there was a sense that Mayer would reverse his decision," Meriwether said...