Roanoke Times
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DATE: WEDNESDAY, May 30, 1990 TAG: 9005300269
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"It is time for me to step down and allow a new president to provide fresh energy and continuity of leadership through the next decade," he said in a statement.
Bok, 60, became the university's 25th president in 1971. He said he will step down at the end of the next school year and had no immediate long-term plans.
His presidency began amid student demonstrations against the Vietnam War. It comes to a close as women and minorities argue for greater representation at the school. Most recently, a black law professor drew publicity by taking an unpaid leave to pressure the law school into giving tenure to a woman from a minority group.
Ella Fitzgerald on Tuesday was given France's top award for excellence in the arts.
The jazz singing great was named Commander of Arts and Letters. Culture Minister Jack Lang presented her with a bronze medal attached to a green and white striped ribbon that he placed around her neck.
"I only hope I will continue to make people happy," said Fitzgerald, 72, scheduled to give a concert in Paris today.
One of her most popular songs is "I Love Paris" and Fitzgerald has long enjoyed immense popularity in France, which boasts countless jazz buffs, radio programs and small jazz clubs.
Dr. Benjamin Spock says American society is sick and getting sicker, and one of its worst ailments is "excessive competitiveness."
Most children are brought up to believe "you're in this world to get ahead, kid," Spock said in a commencement speech Monday at Yale University's School of Epidemiology and Public Health.
Little League baseball should be abolished, he said, because it "takes the fun out of athletics at an early age."
"We ought to raise our children with quite a different spirit - not primarily to get ahead," said Spock, whose landmark 1946 book "Baby and Child Care" has sold 32 million copies.
Madonna's untamed look once drew stares from classmates at Rochester Adams High School, but today's students at her Michigan alma mater seem unimpressed that she's back in town for two concerts.
"The kids that are here and are 14 years old were born the year she graduated," said Nancy Ryan-Mitchell, who was Madonna Louise Ciccone's counselor. "To these kids, though they know she's from the community and the school, it doesn't touch them personally."
by CNB