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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...
...January 12 speech to the faculty, Silber attacked the truthfulness of Redmont's account of his resignation, saying that the former dean had damaged the university's reputation...
...Silber said that in fact he asked Redmont to resign not because of his position on the Afghan Media Project, but rather because of his "unfair, improper and unethical treatment of Associate Dean Ronald S. Goldman," whom Redmont temporarily relieved of his duties...
...Silber told the faculty that Redmont had removed Goldman because of his active campaigning against Redmont's attempts to stop the Afghan Media Project. He added that Redmont later refused to rescind his charges against Goldman after an investigation by the university's general counsel found the dean's actions unjustified...