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Shen, a Boston University graduate student and a Brandeis alumnus, was one of the student leaders of the 1990 Tiananmen Square demonstrations who escaped to the United States...
Williams, a member of the search committee that chose Neil L. Rudenstine as the University's 26th president, is the first Black alumnus to preside over the 30,000-member Harvard Law School Association...
Students at Brandeis University, where Shenstudied from 1989-91 before beginning graduatework at Boston University, held a rally onSeptember 10 in support of their alumnus...
Gerald Rafshoon, a Carter White House alumnus who served briefly as a media adviser, left the organization believing that "Perot has made it a cult of personality and has a messianic vision of himself." But Perot did make one important concession to convention when he hired two experienced handlers in early June to run his campaign. Ed Rollins had directed Ronald Reagan's 1984 campaign, and Hamilton Jordan had managed Jimmy Carter's efforts in 1976 and '80. Their mission was to convert Perot's feisty guerrilla operation into a force capable of waging a general election campaign...
...thing to give a philanthropist a building and quite something else to give him a whole college. The Rowan gift in fact did not gladden everybody at Glassboro. At least one alumnus has threatened to go to court, charging that the trustees, in a fit of non campus mentis, have simply sold the college to Rowan. That complaint may not be fair, but it does raise the question of what it takes to buy into an institution of learning nowadays. If Glassboro can be bought, as it were, for $100 million, you can probably get Yale for $109 million...