June 24, 2005

A Week After College's President Resigns, Accusations of an Affair Surface; Florida International U. Hires Stanley Fish for Law-School Post; President of Rose-Hulman Institute Leaves After a Stormy Year

By JAMILAH EVELYN and ROBIN WILSON

Jack E. Daniels has had a love affair with community colleges throughout his 30-year career in education. But speculation on a different type of affair may have ended his tenure as president of Lincoln Land Community College, in Springfield, Ill.

Asked if he had engaged in a romantic relationship with a woman who worked in the college's human-resources office, Mr. Daniels, 54, told The Chronicle, "My private life is my private life."

But James A. Yuncker, 46, said that the

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