Word: widner
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Kilson said he wrote the letter to Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles in order to explain the reasons for his dissenting vote in last week's government department decision to recommend Widner for tenure...
...Widner declined to comment last night. Reached last night, Knowles said he had not yet received the letter...
Kilson, who is Black, wrote that Widner met him after a seminar discussion on March 2, 1990, demanding an "impromptu meeting" about a survey format she had prepared for a subcommittee chaired by the professor...
Kilson wrote that Widner grabbed his arm, "forcefully pulling-me-back-into-Seminar room as I attempted at the same time to exit that Seminar room...
...Some 20 persons or so are watching Widner's incredible confrontationalist assault toward me--me, a Black full professor at Harvard University--and they were clearly astonished, to say the least about it," Kilson wrote...