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Hehir will succeed Dean Ronald F. Thiemann, who stepped down last fall after University computer technicians found pornography on his computer. Divinity School policy prohibits storing material that is "inappropriate, obscene, bigoted or abusive" on University computers and limits computer use to activities "related to the School's mission of education, research and public service...
...Thiemann, who is an ordained Lutheran minister, is currently on sabbatical from his position as O'Brian Professor of Divinity and is slated to return to teaching and research...
Valera said she hoped Hehir would also be able to lead students at a school still reeling from the surprising circumstances surrounding Thiemann's departure...
Dershowitz added that although obscenity is a difficult field to define, he finds it difficult to penalize Thiemann for the personal contents of his computer...
...doesn't do to say there was a rule saying you can't use your computer for personal matters. If they had found Dean Thiemann's private stamp collection on the computer, they would not have asked him to step down," he said