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<text id=90TT3374>
<title>
Dec. 17, 1990: American Notes:Education
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
Dec. 17, 1990 The Sleep Gap
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<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
NATION, Page 65
American Notes
EDUCATION
Not $1 Million, But Not Bad
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<p> Richard Berendzen won't be getting his $1 million severance
package from American University after all. But everything
considered, he can hardly gripe. Berendzen resigned as
president of the Washington institution last April after making
repeated obscene telephone calls from his office to a woman in
Virginia. Last week, following a campus-wide uproar over their
largesse, the trustees struck a more modest deal: Berendzen
will be retained as a tenured senior physics professor at a
salary "appropriate to his faculty rank," somewhere around
$70,000 a year, and will begin teaching in the spring of 1992.
</p>
<p> The original $1 million offer had prompted three weeks of
campus protests. Many students and faculty members denounced
the deal as a cop-out for the university and a windfall for
Berendzen. Last week's compromise got a better reception. Said
Diane Jackson of the Undergraduate Student Confederation: "This
is a compassionate solution that will allow Dr. Berendzen and
the A.U. community the time they need to heal." Still, many
faculty members are hoping that by the spring of 1992,
Berendzen will choose to go elsewhere.
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