Ivor van Heerden, who pointed fingers in Hurricane Katrina levee failures, fired by LSU

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For those who doubt the need for tenure at research universities, read on.....

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http://www.nola.com/news/index.ssf/2009/04/ivor_van_heerden_who_pointed_f.html

vor van Heerden, the outspoken coastal scientist who led the state's independent Team Louisiana investigation into Hurricane Katrina levee failures, has been notified by Louisiana State University that he will be terminated as a research professor in May 2010.
Van Heerden, who is not a tenured professor, also has been stripped of his title as deputy director of the LSU Hurricane Center. Also, engineering professor Marc Levitan has stepped down as the center's director. University officials say they will reshape the center's research direction in the wake of the moves.

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In November 2005, he was called to a meeting with two LSU assistant chancellors who van Heerden said told him to stop talking to the press, because it threatened the university's ability to get research dollars from the federal government.