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More about Michael Young, '67,
President of the University of Utah |
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| | New U.
'captain' well-suited --
Young has honed skills at varied high-level posts |
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| President Mike Young began his term as
President of the University of Utah in August 2004. |
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| By Dennis Romboy
Deseret Morning News
On Michael K.
Young's first day as dean of the George Washington University Law School, two senior administrators waited for him at the front entrance.
He thought the pair, both retired Navy admirals, were there to salute the change in command.
Rather, they politely escorted him to the school's largest classroom, where water was cascading down the steps and pooling at the bottom.
The administrators turned to the dumbstruck dean with a snappy salute and called him captain.
"It took me a few minutes to realize that captains, not admirals, go down with the ship," Young wrote in a law review article.
That lesson serve
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