October 22, 1999

Tenure Troubles at Stanford

To the Editor:

I read with horror about Karen Sawislak's tenure odyssey at Stanford University ("Denying Tenure: Who Said Anything About Fairness?," Opinion, September 17). Based on a reading of the tenure-evaluation documents she mentioned in her article, I think it is obvious that the dean of her school grossly misinterpreted the statements that her peers made about her. Describing the following statement about her unfinished book as "tentative" is just a

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