"Now I would not speak on behalf if Harvard because all I can say to people is that they should not contribute to this University until it has fair and open hiring," she says.
Many of her colleagues in the Astronomy Department agree that Harvard's bureaucracy has wronged Geller.
"Not giving tenure to [Geller] was a mistake," says fellow astronomer Alyssa Goodman.
Wolff agrees, saying that Geller "certainly" deserves tenure at Harvard.
The whole astronomy department does not share Wolff's opinion, however.
"Margaret is a very, very dangerous person," a fellow astronomer says.
Knowles refused to comment on Geller's position, or on why she was offered an unprecedented tenure-less chair, saying, "it's a personal issue."
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