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...same day in 1980 that Vartan Gregorian heard on his car radio that he had not been chosen president of the University of Pennsylvania, he resigned as provost of the institution. Some speculate that he was passed over for the job because he was a history professor with few proven administrative skills, particularly in the area of fundraising...
...interesting enough candidate to moveforward. He doesn't have a strong senior-leveladministrative background--not a dean, not a vicepresident, not a provost," Withers said. But sheadded that Counter is thought to have a strongacademic background...
...switched to biology and stayed on for a Ph.D., meanwhile coaching the Harvard ski team. In contrast to today's microbiologists, Kennedy says, he took the old-fashioned "butterfly route" in biology. He nonetheless rocketed up the academic ladder at Syracuse and | then Stanford, where he became provost in 1979. En route he detoured to Washington, first as a science adviser to Gerald Ford, then as Food and Drug Administration commissioner under Jimmy Carter. In the latter role, he was a strong public-interest spokesman, opposing use of ozone-damaging fluorocarbon sprays and favoring regulation of such cancer-linked substances...
...Crimson erroneously suggested in Saturday's issue that the resignation of Yale Provost William Nordhaus was connected to his prior refusal to raise teaching assistants' salaries at the school. Nordhaus left his post citing a wish to return to teaching and research. The Crimson regrets the error...
Lurie blames Nordhaus for the current state of affairs. "The provost office has been the principal impediment in our increase in salaries. He is backed by the president...this is contrary to the policy that [the president] had last spring...