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When journalism's brightest luminaries gathered at a black-tie dinner last month to celebrate the 75th anniversary of Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism, there was one conspicuous absence: the school's dean. The university had been unable to fill that prominent post ever since former Newsweek Editor in Chief Osborn Elliott resigned two years ago. Last week Columbia President Michael Sovern finally announced a successor: Joan Konner, 57, a veteran television-documentary producer and a Columbia trustee since 1978. "She's been a very serious possibility from the beginning," said Sovern. "We didn't want anyone...
Some athletes also have special skills that make them better equipped to fill Athletic Department jobs. "There are natural ties between sports and the jobs that we have," says Allard. Some student employees are responsible for setting up for athletic contests. "For these jobs we hire a greater portion of athletes," Allard says. "They become naturals for that kind of job. For instance, there is a certain group of football players who know what needs to be done to a baseball field prior to a game...
Council leaders said the council should stick to the role it could best fill--social leadership. But instead of spearheading a drive to improve quality of life, the council showed its maddening inability to do anything that the student body wanted...
Nonetheless, Vendler expresses optimism that minorities will follow the recent route of women scholars. "When possibilities are opened up, people rush in to fill them," she says...
...main reason undergraduates were barely affected by the market's decline is that the entry-level positions seniors will fill are low-paying, short-term jobs that companies can afford to keep offering, observers...