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...seems better to refuse than to receive. LARRY KRAMER, bellicose playwright and activist, wanted to bequeath several million dollars to Yale for a tenured chair in gay and lesbian studies. Yale, which doesn't like to take instruction from benefactors, said "it was inappropriate to endow in perpetuity a professorship in an academic area yet to be well established or defined," and wanted to put his money elsewhere. Kramer opted out. "It has been a very distasteful experience," says the playwright. Meanwhile in St. Paul, Minn., artist LEROY NEIMAN withdrew an offer to donate $4.5 million worth of his works...
...University announces that Microsoft founder Bill Gates and Microsoft executive vice-president Steven A. Ballmer '77 will donate $25 million for a new building and professorship in computer science and electrical engineering. Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis '68 celebrates with a case of sparkling cider for his class, Computer Science 121: "Introduction to Formal Systems and Computation...
...largest private gifts ever to the Education School was a $2.5 million donation from Yashuhisa and Kimiko Tsuzuki to establish the Sada Tsuzuki professorship, which will focus on early childhood development...
Lewis has used his legal knowledge as a lecturer at HLS, teaching a course on the Constitution and the press. He has also lectured at the Universities of California, Illinois, Oregon and Arizona and has held the James Madison Visiting Professorship at Columbia University since...
...think because he is a consummate musician he has literally been able to hear and discover what is essential about what the next thing is," says Dwight D. Andrews, who taught Music 131: "History of Jazz." Andrews is the first to hold an associate visiting professorship sponsored by Quincy Jones...