Wednesday, May 09, 2001
Strength Through Failure responds to the news of John Sexton, the new N.Y.U. president:
I guess they need someone like him. Who's got time to snooze when there are so many landmarks to tear down, so many gardens to bulldoze, so many Soviet-style dormitory-megaliths to erect?!?! Oh yes, TAKE ME TAKE ME TAKE ME!!!!! IF YOU BUILD IT I WILL COME ABBBBBBBBLAAAASSDDDDDKJ!
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Mr. Sexton will succeed L. Jay Oliva, who has been president for 10 years, next May. In selecting Mr. Sexton, 58, the trustees tapped an experienced administrator with a working knowledge of the university who holds a Ph.D. in the history of religion as well as a law degree, and regards education as a pastoral mission.
He is a fervent fund-raiser who recently completed a seven-year, $185 million capital campaign for the law school. He is a man given to passions, about his family, his job and spectator sports. He squeezes everything in by sleeping four hours a night, eating one meal a day and drinking 20 to 30 cups of coffee daily.
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/09/nyregion/09NYU.html
posted at 2:46 PM