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Newsmaker of the Year

By U.S. News Staff

January 9, 2007 RSS Feed Print

These nominees were the Britney Spears/Brangelina of the college media in 2006. Who dominated the campus coverage most?

Kaavya Viswanathan
Alexsey Vayner and his why-you-should-hire-me YouTube clip
Jim Gilchrist, Minutemen leader
Vanderbilt University Chancellor Gordon Gee and his $1.2 million earnings
George Mason University basketball team


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