Talk:Benno C. Schmidt, Jr.

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The article completely avoids the fact that Benno Schmidt was not a good president of Yale who resigned in 1992.

HE WAS NOT POPULAR:

Schmidt, who had been dean of the Columbia Law School before becoming Yale’s president, incurred the faculty’s disfavor through his initiatives to rein in the University’s ballooning budget deficit. With Yale in financial turmoil, Schmidt and then-Provost Frank Turner made plans to cut the size of the faculty by more than 10 percent. The “restructuring” would have eliminated several whole departments — including linguistics — and severely diminished the Faculty of Engineering.

Source: Yale Daily News 27 February 2007

http://www.yaledailynews.com/articles/view/20159

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Given wikipedia's policy of signed posts, it was mortifying to find an unsigned post that was one-sided and more than unfair to the Yale presidency of Benno Schmidt. If one can "agree to disagree" debate occurs. The opinions of students aren't inconsequential, but, come on, boy, actual achievements, and Schmidt had many at Yale, are more important.SLY111 (talk) 20:21, 26 February 2008 (UTC)SLY111