Prewitt's hiring had been a coup for the New School. What brought Kerrey to this unhappy pass was that, 10 days earlier, Kenneth Prewitt - Kerrey's handpicked and highly regarded choice for dean of the New School's storied Graduate Faculty of Political and Social Science - had submitted his resignation after less than a year on the job. As a packed auditorium of New School faculty and students peppered him with hostile questions about his governance of the university, the normally cool former senator began to redden and splutter. In his more recent appearance, however, there was no such ambiguity: Kerrey was the bad guy. On that occasion Kerrey had played, if not quite the villain, then the tortured antihero, wrestling with his conscience while attacking his critics. In his last such appearance, in April of 2001, Kerrey had answered questions about The New York Times Magazine's revelation that a platoon of soldiers, under his nighttime command, had slaughtered civilians in the village of Thanh Phong during the Vietnam War. On the afternoon of Friday, March 15, the last day before spring break, New School University President Bob Kerrey made one of his periodic star turns on the Tishman Auditorium' stage in lower Manhattan.
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