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By Donna St. George August 4, 2012
Helen Dragas was under fire. As rector of the governing board at the University of Virginia, she had led a secretive effort to force the resignation of the institution’s popular president. By mid-June, the Charlottesville campus was demanding answers.
Then a lonely voice of support emerged, saying it was time for a revolution.
Paul Tudor Jones II, a billionaire hedge fund titan and U-Va. alumnus, had been acquainted with Dragas for about a month, according to associates of Jones’s who spoke on the condition that they not be named. She had called him in May to ask if he wanted to join U-Va.’s Board of Visitors. He declined, but he urged a focus on strategic planning.
In June, as Dragas was being assailed from all directions, Jones told Dragas that he would write an op-ed piece backing the board. |