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...institution committed to the organizational principle of "every tub on its own bottom," Lowell's interdict against seeking donors was a terrible omen, one that would re-emerge some six decades later when the museum's director, professor of archaeology Lawrence Stager, would not raise money himself and barred others from doing so besides. But this jumps ahead of the story...
Some time after his arrival here from the Oriental Institute at the University of Chicago eight years ago, Professor Stager was made the director of the museum. Put starkly, he had zero interest in the work it did. A learned but extraordinarily narrow specialist, he saw the space and the moneys the museum uses as assets he could annex to his own archaeological enterprises. In this sense his war against the museum is an easily understood university quarrel. It's what one Harvard wag calls "space imperialism...
...staff members also called Dorot Professor of Archaeology of Israel Lawrence Stager, the museum's director, an unfit choice to chair the committee...
...Professor Stager's lack of management, lack of communication with the staff, total neglect of fundraising and other duties expected of a director contributed greatly to the difficulties which the museum faces," said Monday's letter to Knowles...
...Stager could not be reached for comment last night...