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...students at the nation's second oldest Ivy League school have mixed opinions of their glamorous president. Some Yalies charge that Giamatti fails to live up to the image he has garnered from extensive media coverage--an image some student leaders at Yale charge is quite different from his everyday demeanor...
Kirk Scott, coordinator of Yale's Campaign against Militarism and the Draft, agrees: "It's hard to meet with him unless you're the president of the YCC," he says, adding that it took him two months to schedule an appointment with Giamatti...
...Giamatti's supporters are as effusive in their praise as his detractors are in their complaints. "He's put us in the position to help ourselves," says Bryan Blaney, president of the Black Student Alliance. "Contact with him is pretty good...
Stacey D. Modell, president of the undergraduate School's Committee, says that Giamatti managed to find time to attend an Early Action Day luncheon, even after his secretary had called to cancel. "My faith [in Giamatti] was restored," she says...
...most controversial example of this alleged duality occurred earlier this year when the Yale Glee Club--at the insistence of Giamatti and several other administrators--turned down a State Department invitation to record the Polish Solidarity Union anthem for broadcast on Voice of America...