December 7, 2001

Physicists Say Their President Cost Them a Federal Grant; 3 American Indian Professors File Bias Suit

By ELIZABETH F. FARRELL and ROBIN WILSON

TEXAS TEMPEST: Every university president is expected to make tough calls and occasionally provoke his various constituents. But several faculty members at Prairie View A&M University, in Texas, think their president, Charles A. Hines, a 66-year-old retired Army general, has finally gone too far.

While the faculty has railed at Mr. Hines throughout his seven-year tenure, the last straw came last month when his actions apparently cost the university's physics department a major