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...John Beckman, the director of NYU’s public relations office, said he was less concerned with his school’s triumph than the overall merits of rankings in general...
...Beckman did note, however, that NYU’s popularity has surged in recent years...
...heroes of these books aren't the cynical, world-weary salonistas of The Sun Also Rises. They're innocents abroad, naive Candides hungry for an education, spiritual or otherwise. Take the character named Gurney, protagonist of John Beckman's The Winter Zoo. Gurney abandons his pregnant girlfriend in an Iowa delivery room and flees to Cracow to join his cousin Jane. Jane turns out to be a Mephistophelean temptress of the first order, and she schools Gurney in the pleasures of the flesh, turning his stay in Cracow into an all-hours, all-you-can-eat buffet of food, booze...
...statement posted on the university website, NYU spokesperson John Beckman said, "We are disappointed by the decision rendered today by the National Labor Relations Board with regard to the issue of unionization by graduate assistants. Today's decision overturns nearly a quarter-century of precedent with no changes in circumstances to justify...
...precedent for 25 years has been that TAs are students, not employees. They are working toward fulfillment of degree [requirements]," says John Beckman, the university's director of public affairs...