Now Russian at Cornell is threatened (again)

[Alina Israeli]

Don't forget James Billington. (Note, everything is "local": Tom Beyer 
remembered his governor, I remembered the Library head, here in town.)

Well, in another decade Chinese scholars and former arabists will occupy 
their places.

As I see it, there is a difference between Cornell and Connecticut 
college. In Connecticut college they are trying to save on the overhead, 
I don't see much harm there considering that German enrollments have 
been going down around the country as were Russian.

But closing a major as in Cornell goes against liberal arts and Ivy's 
traditions in education. Not to mention that the faculty involved were 
not even informed.

AI


beyer wrote:
> Governor James Douglas of Vermont
>
Kevin Moss wrote:
> I meant to say NPR.
> VPR is only our local Vermont branch!
> Has it struck anyone else how many people out there in visible 
> positions are former Russian students? Vivian (the correct spelling -- 
> I'm on a roll today) at NPR and David Remnick at The New Yorker come 
> to mind.
>
> On May 6, 2010, at 5:11 PM, Kevin Moss wrote:
>
>> Probably some grads from the heyday years on the list. I got a heads-
>> up from Russian grad Vivien Schiller, who is now the President of VPR.
>> In the 80s we had not only Pat Carden & Savely Senderovich, but also
>> George Gibian, Alik Zholkovsky, Caryl Emerson, Nina Perlina, Len
>> Babby, Dick Leed, Wayles Browne, Nakhimovskis, Papernos.... the list
>> goes on and on!
>>
>> http://tinyurl.com/24dm7ma
>>
>>
>

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