Word: benno
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Tears of nostalgia filled the Old Campus as Yale's class of 1992 tossed their tassels and bounded off to bright futures. Only later did they learn that President Benno Schmidt would be bounding along right after them. In a surprise announcement, Schmidt resigned his post after six troubled years to lead the Edison Project, Christopher Whittle's bold $2.5 billion effort to build 1,000 for-profit schools...
...news brought few tears. Schmidt's brief reign as steward of Yale's fortunes was rocky from the start. When the former dean of Columbia University Law School commuted between New Haven, Conn., and home with his filmmaker wife in New York City, Yalies jeered, "Where's Benno?" A bitter strike by graduate-student teaching assistants and recent recommendations for sharp cutbacks in faculty and the elimination of several academic departments damaged campus morale. But Schmidt, 50, managed to assuage some students by serenading them with country-and-western tunes on his guitar and to woo some alums with...
...disconnected from the education process," says Whittle. "We need to figure out how they are motivated and tap into that." At this point Whittle's enterprise is little more than an ambitious blue-sky notion, yet it is attracting considerable interest and some high-level talent: Yale President Benno Schmidt last week resigned his post to head the venture...
...around the Yard. Citing irreconcilable differences, Ibis said he fled his perch at a putative Bow St. Social club which periodically publishes parodies. Apparently, Ibis his been AWOL for several weeks, and some sources say he was seen at Yale Commencement ceremonies prior to the resignation of Yale resident Benno Schmidt...
...surprise resignation of Yale University President Benno Schmidt is linked to "deep structural problems" throughout American higher education, Harvard President Neil L. Rudenstine said last week...