Wanted: Crisis President

Colleges turn to leaders who can deal with mayhem and the media

A mundane day was in the works at Virginia Tech on Monday, April 16. The highlights on the university's public event calendar were a bowling break at the Squires Student Center, a luncheon sponsored by the African Students Association, and a town-hall meeting on environmental issues.

Charles W. Steger, the university's president, could not have predicted that the decisions he would make that morning and in the days

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