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Nevertheless, at a May 1975 meeting of the school's Special Committee on Tenure, Kermit C. Morrissey, president of Boston State College, asked that Rosenthal be denied tenure because of his action as a member of CAR, claiming that Rosenthal had been the instigator of a CAR demonstration the previous month. On April 15, 1975, CAR members had disrupted a speech being delivered on campus by Avi Nelson, a radio announcer vehemently opposed to forced busing. The three faculty members on the committee asked Morrissey if he had any evidence to substantiate his claim. The president replied that...
Five weeks later, in a meeting with Rosenthal and Thomas O. Power, president of the Faculty Federation, a local chapter of the American Federation of Teachers, Morrissey told the two men that he had no evidence to support the charges he had made at the committee meeting. Power later informed Dean Jones that the evidence did not exist and asked him to change his vote. Jones refused, claiming that his negative vote had not been based on Morrissey's charges but on "a" lack of enthusiasm displayed by the faculty members on the Special Committee replied to this statement with...
...debate between the faculty and Jones was somewhat moot, however, because the tenure decision now fell into Morrissey's hands and unlike most previous cases where the president's approval of the committee's recommendation had been a routine matter, Morrissey rejected the faculty's advice. In a letter dated July 21, 1975, Morrissey in formed Rosenthal that "your service to Boston State College will be terminated on June...
...Perhaps Morrissey could have avoided this charge if he had presented Rosenthal with specific, non-political reasons for the firing. But the reasons he has given leave little doubt as to the weekness of his case and the motive for the firing. In his letter to Rosenthal, Morrissey wrote that he had "reservations" about the quality of Rosenthal's teaching and about his ability "to make a long term positive contribution" to the college. Not only did these reservations contradict countless faculty and student evaluations describing Rosenthal with such phrases as "a dedicated teacher who spends a lot of time...
Teamster ties with the Mafia go way back. Nicholas P. Morrissey, secretary-treasurer of Teamsters Joint Council 10 in Boston, observes, "Most people who come out of prison go into this kind of work [trucking, warehousing and longshoring]." Hoffa had friends in the Mob and indeed used them in his climb from the boss of Detroit's Local 299 to his election as the union's president in 1957. But Hoffa always retained a degree of independence of the gangsters...