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To: freelyhovering who wrote (224110)	5/14/2013 1:19:28 PM
From: koan	Respond to of 542125

Thanks.

To: freelyhovering who wrote (224110)	5/14/2013 1:41:40 PM
From: JohnM	Respond to of 542125

He was President of U of Texas at Austin and then at Boston U. (or college?--John will know). Silber was a philosophy professor at UT Austin who then became Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. Many thought he would be the next president of the UT-Austin campus. He certainly thought so himself. But he had a Texas sized and locally famous encounter with the then chairman of the board of trustees, Frank Erwin. Silber lost that fight while making the most of the publicity available. He was then looked upon, nationally, as a very promising university president, willing to take on the dumb and ignorant gubernatorial appointees on the board. He famously interviewed, not by letting various hiring bodies question him but by telling them he had studied their campus and, if hired, he intended to do x, y, and z to improve their university. If they didn't like it, they should not hire him. And, it was, no doubt, said in a way that implied they would confirm their "dumbness" to the world if they chose not to hire him. Boston University did so. And one need only read Silber's wikipedia page to see the pluses and minuses of his very long presidency.