Howard Zinn by Martin Duberman

Author:Martin Duberman [Duberman, Martin]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781595588401
Publisher: New Press, The

In 1973, the University of Paris at Vincennes invited Howard to teach for one semester—two courses of three hours each on Marxist and anarchist theory, carrying a salary of $9,000 (about average in Europe at that time). Howard immediately accepted and assumed that a three-month leave of absence without pay would pass through the assorted faculty and administrative procedures automatically. He arranged for Herbert Marcuse, one of the world’s most distinguished political philosophers, to take over his classes. Howard thought BU would jump at the chance to get Marcuse on campus—especially because he himself would pay Marcuse’s salary and his leave wouldn’t cost the university a cent.7

But Howard hadn’t counted on the depth of Silber’s antagonism. To almost everyone’s surprise, the dean of liberal arts turned down Howard’s request for leave; the reason given was that his absence would burden the university with incidental expenses totaling $2,000—a sum that the dean himself had earlier called “modest.” What followed the announcement was a week and a half of special faculty meetings, during which there was a shouting match between Howard and the dean. A subsequent deal, which would have apparently led to official approval of Howard’s absence, required him to submit a memo “requesting permission to leave.” He pointblank refused. “See how starved we are,” Howard wrote his close friend and colleague Frances Fox Piven (Poor People’s Movements), “when crap like this becomes important!” The administration, for once, made no further objections, and when the time came, Howard and Roz simply left for their three-month stay in France.

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