coffman's deanship did not end well, due to his vindictive and strongly prejudiced personality. one sign of early trouble was when he drove out dabagh in 1952 after they could not bridge their fundamental differences over how to run the law library, which was widely regarded around the ucla community as contributing to dabagh's early death in 1959. on september 21, 1955, the faculty revolted in the form of a memorandum to chancellor raymond b. allen alleging that coffman was categorically refusing to hire jews or anyone he perceived to be leftist, and that the school's reputation was deteriorating because coffman's abrasive personality had led to excessive faculty turnover. on may 24, 1956, coffman was stripped of his deanship after a lengthy investigation by a panel of deans of his biases and his "dictatorial, undemocratic, and autocratic" management style. he remained on the faculty until his forced retirement in 1973, but continued to face allegations as late as 1971 that he was "an unreconstructed mccarthyite and pro-segregationist."