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Virginia Tech administrators sent several e-mails to Virginia Tech students in the wake of the shootings, but the first arrived at least two hours after the initial attack had occurred. At a news conference yesterday, Virginia Tech President Charles Steger defended his administration’s handling of the incident, saying officials thought the first shooting stemmed from a domestic dispute and mistakenly believed the gunman had fled the area. And, like students here and around the country, he struggled to grasp the gravity of the day’s events...
Stuart Heiser, a spokesman for the Council of Graduate Schools, said the increasing efforts of other countries to recruit international students should serve as a wake-up call for U.S. schools. “Just in the last six months a number of countries have announced multimillion-dollar marketing campaigns to attract international students,” Heiser said, citing France, Canada, Australia, and the United Kingdom...
...legal niches. Though only three years old, the program has already established courses in the new field and persuaded some up-and-comers to follow in Bartholet’s steps.“A lot of students come to law school full of ideals, but most students wake up in a few months thinking that ‘my only choice’ is to work at a commercial law firm,” Bartholet says. “I think that’s a waste of talent.”BUREAUCRATIC BARRIERSAdopting Christopher was an eye-opener...
...wake of Summers’ resignation last summer, at least four major donations to Harvard totaling $390 million were reportedly withdrawn. In the most high-profile case, Oracle CEO Lawrence J. Ellison publicly withdrew a pledge to donate $115 million to the school, saying he had lost confidence in University’s ability to spend the money wisely. Other donors declined requests for gifts or called for donations of as little as $1 in response to the resignation...
...When we were little, he’d wake up at like 5 a.m. and run down the halls screaming as loud as he could,” she says. “He was always obnoxious and sounding like a monkey or something...