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BOSTON UNIVERSITY is beginning to cave in on its president, John R. Silber. Groups of both professors and students have called for his dismissal, and more than 500 professors from neighboring colleges--including Harvard--have pledged to withhold administrative courtesies from B.U. until Silber is removed as president...
...Silber richly deserves this fate. In his eight years as president he has systematically subverted academic freedom and violated the rights of students, professors, and staff...
...used tenure and promotions as political tools to punish his critics. Often overriding departmental recommendations, the central administration has frequently denied salary increases to Silber's critics...
Because of Silber's determination to stifle criticism, the administration adopted a new publication policy under which student activity fees cannot finance student publications. The B.U. News and Commonwealth magazine both folded partly as a result of this policy...
Most recently Silber began proceedings to fire or suspend five activist professors because they refused to cross picket lines of striking clerical workers, contending that they violated their contracts...