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Gampel Pavilion on the University of Connecticut's campus can seat 10,000 people, and every time the women's basketball team plays there, the place sells out. At a recent home game against Seton Hall University, UConn's athletic director, Lew Perkins, surveyed the cheerleaders, the band, the students with their faces painted in the team's colors, the dancing Husky mascot and sports reporters from publications not normally inclined to cover women's college athletics. "This turnout has nothing to do with Title IX," Perkins remarked, referring to the 1972 law that requires schools receiving federal funds...
Others elected include Arielle J. Cohen ’04, vice president for community building; Julia B. Appel ’04, vice president for community relations; Shoshana M. Lew ’05, vice president for education; and Michael Grunfeld ’04, vice president for communications...
Shoshana M. Lew ’05 says that while the staffers connected students with otherwise unreachable speakers during her work on the IOP’s civics committee, their presence also “limits the extent to which students, particularly those who are only becoming involved in the IOP, can get a foothold in the organization’s leadership structure...
...DIED. LEW WASSERMAN, 89, the last of Hollywood's legendary movie moguls, who headed up MCA, the parent company of Universal Pictures, for four decades; in Beverly Hills, Calif. Born in Cleveland, Ohio, Wasserman worked nights as a movie usher in high school. After impressing an MCA executive while promoting talent for a Cleveland nightclub, Wasserman was hired and went on to represent such clients as Marilyn Monroe, Ronald Reagan and Jimmy Stewart. Fiercely protective of his stars, Wasserman kept Clark Gable's drunk-driving arrest and Betty Grable's premarital pregnancy out of the papers. He revolutionized the film...
...colleagues and I were expected to follow his example. Loyalty was very important to Lew: loyalty to clients in his early agent days, loyalty to those who were counting on us in later times. It was no accident that MCA executives frequently spent most or all of their careers with the company. It was like our family. It would take care of us. Honesty was essential to Lew. Our integrity was never to be questioned. And nobody ever wondered about our financial statements. He earned his power over and over again. Lew really wasn't the "last mogul...