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Garzilli also names Dean of the Graduate SchoolChristoph Wolff as a defendant in her suit, saying"it is more probable than not that ProfessorWitzel was forced by a senior officer of Harvard,the Dean of the Graduate School of Arts andSciences, Dean Wolff, to write the'withdrawal...
...says in her complaint that "[i]n eachinstance of Dr. Garzilli's exclusion from ateaching appointment... the proximate cause of theexclusion was the opposition of Dr. Benson andProfessor Eck, without academic justification, andthe opposition and power, exercised by virtue oftheir positions in the University and in theDepartment, of Dean Wolff and Professor Bol, alsowithout academic justification...
...Wolff refused to comment on the matter, as didassociate Dean Laura Fischer, who has helped himmanage the Department, referring all calls toUniversity Attorney Alan A. Ryan, Jr., who hasbeen assigned to the case...
...Tobias Wolff's article was the most poignant and thought-provoking short piece I have read to date on the reasons for our downfall in the Vietnam War [ESSAY, April 24]. I am a Vietnam-era veteran, and I found that Wolff has portrayed masterfully that conflict's lingering aftermath and the painful rift it has left in U.S. society. Let us hope that someday soon, via efforts like Wolff's, the rest of us will reach a higher understanding of the Vietnam vet's ongoing ordeal...
...Wolff does a terrible injustice to most military units, their men and their commanders when he writes, "we opened the gates of hell on that country, and we didn't spend much time making distinctions between enemies and friends. Entire towns were destroyed, others devastated by our jets and artillery. Most of the dead were civilians.'' In Vietnam, well-run and honorably commanded units took extraordinary care and considerable risk to minimize civilian casualties and damage. Wolff demeans those of us who tried with all our hearts to be as humane as war allows...