October 8, 1999

Noted Film Scholar Moves From U. of Iowa to Yale; Former UCLA President Is Interim Chief at U. of Florida; U. of Michigan Law School Hires 8

By SCOTT HELLER and JULIANNE BASINGER

You don't find too many scholars who spend their whole careers teaching at the same university where they earned their Ph.D.'s. Dudley Andrew, a film scholar at the University of Iowa, is one. So, after 30 productive years in Iowa City, he figured he'd take his time in deciding whether to move for a plum job at Yale University.

He taught at Yale for a semester this spring. "I was won over in my first week on campus," he says. "The students managed to show a number of Kurosawa films