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Show -304- The young man did, and both of these officials told him what the Professor had, that he was eligible for tenure. He applied for his leave and got it. However, while on leave, the instructor received a letter from the Director saying that the Dean of Arts and Letters had vetoed his reappointment. He, himself, he said, was in favor of the reappointment, but the Dean would not hear of it. The young man wrote the Professor and asked what he made of this letter. The letter was the first the Professor had heard of the matter. He confronted the Director, and the Director confirmed that he had written. The Professor told him that he and the two top officials in the Department had told the instructor that he had earned tenure. "You were mistaken," the Director said. "The first year, he was hired as a lecturer, which does not count toward tenure." Technically, this was so, but the Professor knew of others in the same position who had been promoted. Convinced that it was the Director, not the Dean, who didn't want the young man rehired, the Professor went to the Chairman of the Advisory Committee and reported what had happened. Both were angry, but both agreed that the Director was legally within his rights. The question was of the morality of the action. Did the Director use good judgment in waiting until the end of the seven year period before firing the instructor, and did he lie in saying that it xas the Dean who had made the |