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- NATION, Page 65American NotesEDUCATIONNot $1 Million, But Not Bad
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- 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.
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- 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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