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...Alan E. Heimert '49 had only been recently toiling away as a junior faculty member and had just received tenure as the Cabot Professor of American Literature, along with taking the reins of Eliot House in 1968 as its master. Heimert would lead the Committee of Fifteen, an administrative body which decided the fate of the most egregious offenders...
...Alan E. Heimert, 1969 became a crucial turning point not because of the causes it represented, but rather, because of the administrative load it created. Heimert, both stepping into the relatively new shoes of tenured professor and Eliot master, was having his time pulled out from under his feet...
...burned up so much of my time and energy that I didn't write books. This led my colleagues and the professional administration to wonder if my professional credentials were dubious," Heimert says...
...Heimert says he even believes that the aftermath permanently affected his professional career...
...Still, the damage caused by 1969 led him to rededicate himself to undergraduate teaching. Heimert's efforts have paid off--he was awarded the Levenson Award for undergraduate teaching excellence...