"NYU's history department has an infinitely more congenial intellectual environment," she says, adding that "There is a greater commitment to teaching, and the graduate students in particular are extremely bright and dedicated."

The rancor in her voice is unmistakable when Nolan attributes here denial of promotion here to a "mixture of political and sexual discrimination" brought on by her declared Marxist views and her open support for student demands that Harvard sell its investments in corporations operating in South Africa.

"Certainly discrimination of this type is more market at Harvard than at other Universities," she says, calling the low number of female Faculty members here and the recent denial of tenure to sociologist Theda Skocpol "particularly shocking."

Nolan's sharpest criticism, however, is reserved for Harvard's "male-dominated" History department, where she taught for five years.

"At Harvard the morale is low and the program undeveloped, whereas NYU's department has five female members and an exciting, intellectually stimulating atmospheres," she says, adding that the prospects for tenure in her present position are much stronger than they would have been even if she had gained promotion here.   --S.P.

David Kaiser

For someone who was denied tenure at Harvard just last winter, David E. Kaiser '69 doesn't seem unhappy.

"I think I've got everything here," he says of his new life in Pittsburgh, where he is assistant professor of history and social sciences at Carnegie-Mellon University, adding, "My plans are to stay put indefinitely."

That just may be possible. Unlike Harvard, where Kaiser taught History for 15 years, Carnegie-Mellon hires junior faculty "with the understanding that they will get tenure if they continue to perform at the same level," he says.

Kaiser certainly seems to be performing--in addition to teaching 20th century international relations, he recently completed a book, "Economic Diplomacy and the Origins of the Second World War." He has also begun a study of the "question of European hegemony," a work he says stems from his years of teaching History 1331, "The Problem of Domination Over Europe," at Harvard.

Declining to comment on the History Department's decision to deny tenure to him and three other assistant professors last January, Kaiser says, "Let's just say I have no regrets about taking this job."   --P.A.E.

Thomas Pettigrew

After 23 years on the Faculty, Thomas F. Pettigrew, former professor of Psychology and Social Relations, decided last June he was tired of disputing with his Harvard colleagues and of slogging through the mud and slush of Cambridge.

He now holds a profesorship at the University of California at Santa Cruz and lives in a house with a swimming pool, overlooking Monterey Bay near San Fransisco.

"Some people may think I left just for the weather and the good life, but the overriding factors were definitely the intellectual attractions here at Santa Cruz," Pettigrew says.