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Article: VEST IS CONFIRMED AS MIT PRESIDENT
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- June 19, 1990
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CAMBRIDGE - Charles M. Vest was confirmed yesterday as 15th
president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and
proceeded to demonstrate the political skills and the
deliberativeness for which he acquired a reputation at the
University of Michigan.
In a whirlwind of appearances, he took up MIT's somber view of
the state of American education and business one moment, then
leavened the gloom with quotations from Pogo the next.
Facing a news conference immediately after his election at a
special meeting of the MIT Corporation, Vest was challenged by
students on his record on racial issues at Michigan and his