http://blog.fagstein.com/2007/10/19/concordia-president-doesnt-have-a-phd/ Can you think of a better name? Fri, 21 Nov 2008 01:13:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 http://blog.fagstein.com/2007/10/19/concordia-president-doesnt-have-a-phd/#comment-2342 Philip Moscovitch Mon, 22 Oct 2007 18:41:06 +0000 http://blog.fagstein.com/2007/10/19/concordia-president-doesnt-have-a-phd/#comment-2342 Funny you should mention Michael Di Grappa and Valery Fabrikant in the same post. When I was in my early days as a freelance writer, I called Di Grappa for an interview. It was for a piece I was writing for an internal Concordia publication. While I was on the phone with Di Grappa, Fabrikant was on his rampage. Di Grappa knew something was going on, and that the cops were there, but he didn't know the details. I knew nothing. He told me there was some kind of incident happening, and I asked him if I could interview him now anyway (tasteful, huh?). He agreed. So there we were chatting about elevators in the McConnell building and such, either while the shooting was going on, or in its immediate aftermath. It was not surreal at the time, but it sure seems that way in retrospect. Funny you should mention Michael Di Grappa and Valery Fabrikant in the same post. When I was in my early days as a freelance writer, I called Di Grappa for an interview. It was for a piece I was writing for an internal Concordia publication. While I was on the phone with Di Grappa, Fabrikant was on his rampage. Di Grappa knew something was going on, and that the cops were there, but he didn’t know the details. I knew nothing. He told me there was some kind of incident happening, and I asked him if I could interview him now anyway (tasteful, huh?). He agreed. So there we were chatting about elevators in the McConnell building and such, either while the shooting was going on, or in its immediate aftermath. It was not surreal at the time, but it sure seems that way in retrospect.

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