Jim F.
On Fri, 11 Jun 1999 12:12:00 -0400 Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com>
writes:
>Jacob Segal wrote:
>
>>For those who might be interested, this is a response to a mayoral
>>commission in New York that attacked the City University of New York.
>The
>>commission was lead by Benno Schmidt, former president of Yale.
>
>...an institution he left in disgrace, villified for his frequent
>absences
>(his wife, a New York-based artist/filmmaker, understandably never
>wanted
>to move to New Haven, though the president's house is pretty nice),
>and
>hated by the faculty for his imperious manner and idiotic schemes
>(like
>shutting down the sociology & electrical engineering departments to
>save
>money). And then he went to work for Chris Whittle's Edison Project, a
>corporation organized to manage public primary and secondary schools
>for
>profit. How appropriate that Rudy Giuliani should choose him to
>rethink
>CUNY.
>
>Doug
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