Bob Kerrey Survives

Former senator and Vietnam veteran Bob Kerrey, who ran to become the Democratic presidential nominee in 1992, has survived a no confidence vote brought by senior members of faculty at the New School in New York, where he is president and has been introducing reforms. The censure vote was by just 74 of the university’s 333 full time and 1,733 part time faculty and resulted from Kerrey appointing himself the New School’s provost. (The previous provost has joined Obama’s transition team.) The School’s board of trustees promptly gave Kerrey a unanimous vote of confidence. “I don’t fear any vote that the faculty could take,” said Kerrey. “The problem at the New School is not necessarily with me.”