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Save for the Silver Calf exhibit, which presented discoveries from Stager's dig in Israel, the director of the museum has not been involved in the museum's activities. Staff members hardly remember staff meetings. The ongoing public life of the Semitic Museum was mainly the achievement of Father Carney Gavin, its chief curator, and of his coworkers...
...Stager just doesn't like Gavin, and he has shown this dislike in many ways, not least by denying him a cost-of-living salary raise virtually automatic at Harvard. After Gavin initiated grievance procedures, the raise was finally granted. But the procedures revealed that Stager had done what we're all told as children not to do: He read other people's mail, filched files, and disassembled hi-tech machinery to get evidence against Gavin...
Among the materials Stager discovered was correspondence between Gavin and me. Now, President Neil L. Rudenstine and Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles have assured me that this correspondence won't be in the public records. Alas, they seem not to understand the issue at hand. I'm not at all embarrassed about the contents of this correspondence; I care not a fig whether it is or is not in the public record. I was simply helping the Semitic Museum collect money from a donor who had committed to give more than he had actually turned over...
...dean chose Stager to head the committee which was to review the museum's work and recommend for the museum's future. It is strange that the director of the museum should have been the person to lead an inquiry into how it has fared under his stewardship. This was a set-up, but with a twist. Stager wanted the museum not exactly to fold, but to contract radically. Two members of his committee, moreover, would be beneficiaries of this contraction: As directors of the Fogg and Peabody museums, they are to inherit the parts of the collection which Stager...
...responsibility lies, of course, with those who spent money they didn't have. But what neither the report not the dean, in acting on the report, does is to investigate whether funds to set the museum on sound financial footings might really be available. We know why Professor Stager didn't want the museum on such footings, and, by the way, he has made his feelings known to prospective major donors. But the dean? And the president...