Olin (my advisor) deserved tenure on his strength as a teacher alone. (If tenure were awarded on such things anyway.) He also founded the entire field of stat

Olin (my advisor) deserved tenure on his strength as a teacher alone. (If tenure were awarded on such things anyway.) He also founded the entire field of static analysis for higher-order languages (like Scheme, Python and Haskell). His long-term research impact has been extremely significant. It's hard to figure out any surface reasoning on which to deny him tenure, except that he refuses to thin-slice his work into many tiny papers. He operates on the model of "one paper = one major idea." Denying Olin tenure (after an overwhelming faculty vote in favor of tenure) seemed to me to be the tipping point that led ultimately to the ouster of the Dean.