Archive for May, 2008

New America Media Executive Director Likes the WORD

Sunday, May 11th, 2008

Sandy Close, Executive Editor and Director of New America Media, said, in so many words, in a conversation at the New York Times building in New York City (of course), May 8, that she really liked the WORD (because of its student writers learning and reporting* about ethnic, immigrant issues) and that she wished other colleges repeated the experiment.

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Don’t Forget This Date

Saturday, May 10th, 2008

Wednesday, May 7: 21-1. A Second Referendum: The Ewenian legacy continues. Academic departments get the chairs that they deserve.

Apologies for this cryptic message. It will make sense later this fall.