"As to what kind of research, or where, that depends on the circumstances. Rosovsky said, referring to the Warren Center summer stipends granted to the American history professors.

Rosovsky added that he would "not consider it terribly appropriate" if the American history professors who accept stipends "spent their summers in total leisure."

Some History Department faculty and Faculty administrators said this week they believe the existence of the summer stipends for the tenured American history professors discourages them from searching for "outside funding" for their summer activities.

Some History department sources said this week the Warren Center summer stipends allow the American history professors to receive double funding for the summer research they undertake, both from the Warren Center and from an extra-University source.

Rosovsky declined to comment on whether or not such double funding occurs, or whether such double funding, if it occurs, is proper.

The programs of the Warren Center, which are publicized in the Center's annual reports, include the Warren Fellows program, which brings between ten and 15 post-doctoral American history scholars to the Center each year to work on well-defined research proposals.

A Faculty fellows program grants tenured American history professors one-half salary when they want to take a leave of absence for research. Smaller programs grant graduates and undergraduates limited funding for summertime research projects. Additionally, a substantial portion of the income of the Center's endowment goes to fund the chairs of three American history professors.

One tenured non-Americanist in the History department said earlier this week, "Some of us are very unhappy that more of the money is not being used to fund the work of outside scholars," referring to the Warren Fellows program. Relatively less money should be allocated for summer stipends, the professor added.

A History Department professor said the use of the Warren Center's money for stipends creates serious slaries inequities "at a University which is not supposed to pay salaries according to a 'star' system, where the best-known professors get paid more than all the rest. We're all supposed to be stars here," the professor added.

One senior Americanist said the rest of the department "doesn't care about" the amount of funding that is allotted for the Warren Fellows. "It's simply a matter of some people getting more money than others," the faculty member said. "Each person would like everybody to get the same salary, as long as he gets a little more."

Although Fleming and Rosovsky would not release the relevant funding information, one Warren Center source said that the amount of funding alloted to the post-doctoral Warren Fellows has declined in recent years.

The Warren Center regularly chooses some fellows who have all of their research funding from an outside source. They mainly receive only office space, secretarial help, xeroxing privileges, and University Library privileges as Warren Fellows. At least three of this year's Warren Fellows receive most of their funding from outside organizations, according to a Warren Center source.

History professors disagreed sharply in describing the tone of the discussion of summer stipends at the last Faculty meeting. Oscar Handlin, Pforzheimer University Professor and a senior Americanist, said earlier this week that the allocation of summer stipends did not arise as a serious issue for discussion at the last senior faculty meeting in the History department. He added he does not believe the summer stipend issue is "a major source of tension" in the department.

Handlin described the money going to the tenured American history professors through the summer stipends as a "very small" part of the Warren Center budget. "Only one Europeanist [at the meeting] felt surly about the fact that no one had cut him into anything," Handlin said.

Senior faculty members in European history this week disagreed sharply with Handlin. "Some members of the department--certainly at least a half-dozen--expressed surprise and indignation at what emerged at that faculty meeting," one senior Europeanist said. "And that does not take account of the people that, though absent from the meeting, expressed similar sentiments later."