Word: projects
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Boston University president John Silber last week renewed a two-year-old conflict when he accused a former dean of misleading the national media over the school's controversial Afghan Media Project...
...faculty meeting of the College of Communication, Silber said that Bernard S. Redmont, who resigned as dean of the college in the summer of 1986, had "fostered and continued to foster the myth" that he had stepped down to protest the ethics of the Afghan Media Project...
...project sent BU faculty to train Afghani rebel journalists in Pakistan to provide Western media with alternative information to the news from Sovietinfluenced sources...
...project's ties to the United States Information Agency (USIA), which funded the $500,000 project, initially raised concerns for some BU faculty over the possibility of government interference with the university's academic independence...
Redmont spearheaded the opposition to the project, and gained national media attention when he resigned, a move which was viewed as a protest against the project...