Rutgers and A Lawsuit Over Its Records
In 1963, the journal moved its offices to the campus of Rutgers University and William Phillips was named a Lecturer in the English Department. There, the journal enjoyed rent-free offices and Phillips received a University salary and benefits, as well secretarial assistance. When Phillips approached the University's then mandatory faculty retirement age of 70 in 1978 and was told that no exception would be made for him to stay on past that, he moved the operations to Boston University. In doing so, he attempted to take the records of the journal with him (some of which had been stored at the Rutgers University Library since 1963), but was stopped from doing so by university police. The University stated that the records had been given to Rutgers and were part of the 1963 agreement which resulted in the University investing over $1 million in supporting the journal. Ultimately Phillips sued the University stating that the records were only on deposit and won his case.
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