Word: stagers
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Eileen Caves, assistant to Dorot Professor of the Archaeology of Israel Lawrence E. Stager '65, said Stager resorted to copying the fax carbons when he suspected there had been unauthorized fundraising during the previous summer. Stager had announced in the spring of 1992 that there should be no fundraising without his or the Dean of the Faculty's authorization...
...Stager read the faxed correspondence without the knowledge of the Semitic Museum staff members who had written or received the material...
...said that one day early this semester, she noticed faxed materials could be read off the carbon if held up to the light. Some of the faxed correspondence, Caves said, looked like solicitations to museum donors which Stager had not seen...
...When I first talked to [Stager] about the carbons, he talked to the general counsel's office and asked them if it was against the law," Caves said Wednesday. The general counsel's office classified the carbon as "abandoned material that was left in a public place" and said it was therefore public information, Caves said...
Caves said that tensions between the museum staff and the director over the museum's $1 million cumu- lative deficit had severely reduced the chancesfor candid communication between Stager and thestaff. Reading the faxes was the only way to findout about possible unauthorized fundraising, shesaid...