Word: levins
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Over the objections of Yale President Richard C. Levin, graduate teaching assistants (TAs) at Yale University held an unrecognized "union election" yesterday on the fourth day of their week-long strike...
...defiance of Yale President Richard C. Levin, GESO will hold an unofficial "election" of its own on April 6, according to Gordon Lafer, spokesperson for the Federation of University Employees...
That appears unlikely, given President Levin'sand other Yale administrators' adamant refusals toconsider the groups' demands...
...Richard Levin, who became president in 1993, and his provost then compounded the problem by trying to retain as much of the $20 million as they could for the university's core endowment. They favored filling the four junior positions with existing faculty. Kagan and other original planners of the program resigned from the committee, and a new one was formed. In a colossal blunder, Levin failed to inform Bass of these changes, and when the new group expressed concerns, the members were told, according to a university source, "Don't worry about the donor...
...when he read that editorial," says a member of the Bass camp. "They just didn't carry out the terms of the agreement at all." As the Journal described it, the forces of political correctness had sandbagged the hiring process for the new program. Infuriated and distrustful of Levin, Bass then demanded that he be allowed to oversee appointments to the chairs he'd endowed, a request frequently made by donors but always denied by the university. "Yale would not be Yale if it had ever yielded to any such request," said Judge Jose Cabranes, a trustee of the school...