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Date:    Thu, 11 Dec 1997 13:07:12 +1100
From:    Julian O'Dea <Julian.ODea@MAILHOST.DPIE.GOV.AU>
Subject: "UWA rebuked over Rindos af

"UWA rebuked over Rindos affair"

Here are a couple of quotes from an
article by Ross Storey in "The Australian"
newspaper of 10 December 1997, p.29 in the Higher
Education supplement:

"The University of Western Australia has been reprimanded
by a State parliamentary inquiry into the denial of tenure
to archaeologist David Rindos.

The decision came too late for Dr Rindos, who died a
year ago, but will have implications for all universities.

.... The report, handed down last week, says the American-born
Dr Rindos did not have adequate and fair opportunities to present
his case ...

... in a letter to Dr Rindos in 1993, Professor [Fay] Gale
acknowledged that her decision was based on matters additional
to a tenure review committee's finding on academic grounds,
and these matters related to his difficulties with
Professor [Sandra] Bowdler and the future scope of
the archaeology program."

Anyone interested in more information on this bizarre case
could start by looking at http://joc.mit.edu/uwa/rindos/History/history-m.html#discovery



Julian O'Dea
julian.odea@dpie.gov.au
http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Lab/5396/

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