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More than 500 faculty members from colleges and universities in the Boston area, including at least 60 from Harvard, have signed a letter asking for the removal of Boston University (B.U.) president John R. Silber...
...letter is a response to Silber's attempts to fire five tenured professors for alleged violation of contract agreements because they refused to cross a picket line earlier this year...
Charging that "the revocation of tenure on these trivial grounds can be understood in no other way but as an attack on fundamental traditions of academic freedom," the letter claims that Silber's policies jeopardize academic freedom everywhere...
Signers pledged not to assist B.U. in usual administrative functions such as evaluating applicants for positions at the university until the situation is resolved, Salvador E. Luria, an Institute professor emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.), who wrote the letter, said yesterday...
Copies of the letter were circulated at Harvard, M.I.T., Tufts, Wellesley, Boston College, Northeastern and the University of Massachusetts at Boston, but letters of support have been received from Williams, Johns Hopkins, Princeton and other universities, Luria added...