Word: silbering
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Charging that "the revocation of tenure on these trivial grounds can be understood in no other way but as an attack on fundamental traditions of academic freedom," the letter claims that Silber's policies jeopardize academic freedom everywhere...
Laurence H. Tribe '62, professor of Law and one of the Harvard signatories, said, "I think it's important to express my sense that academic freedom has been violated, particularly since I consider myself something of a friend of President Silber. I didn't think friendship should stand...
...Part of the whole tradition of tenure is that it is deprived only for very great offenses. Here Silber is trying to fire for what he himself called a 'symbolic sympathy strike'," Hilary Putnam, Pearson Professor of Modern Mathematics and Mathematical Logic, another signer, said...
...addition to the proposed firings, the letter cited a number of other "violations of civil liberties" by Silber, including censorship of the student newspaper and radio stations, and the witholding of merit increases from faculty members who spoke out against...
...Silber survived an attempt by a majority of faculty members and deans to oust him in the spring...