PLATFORM : Hail the Nerds SANDY SCHUCKETT, SANDY SCHUCKETT , president of the Los Angeles School Librarians Assn. , is the librarian at Eastman Avenue Elementary School in East Los Angeles. She is concerned about nerd-bashing in the media:
U.S. Kids Are Doing Better Than You Think Joel Kotkin, Joel Kotkin is a senior fellow at the Center for the New West and an international fellow at Pepperdine University School of Business and Management
Out of Print, Out of Mind CHRIS GOODRICH, Goodrich's book "Anarchy and Elegance: Confessions of a Student at Yale Law School" was published in February by Little, Brown
Coloring Between the Lines DANIEL M. STERN, Stern was a children's book editor at Doubleday; he is a publisher and the author/illustrator of "In the City of Venice" and the forthcoming "Montaigne and the Great Conversation."
U.S. Must Avoid Trade Errors of 1980s LAURA D'ANDREA TYSON, LAURA D'ANDREA TYSON is a professor of economics and business administration at UC Berkeley and director of its Institute for International Studies
Feeling of Southwest Grows From Cedar JUDITH A. BROOKS, Brooks, who lives in Sherman Oaks, writes for a nationally syndicated newspaper entertainment column
Tenant Alters Lock, Won't Give Up Key KEVIN POSTEMA, Postema is the editor of Apartment Age magazine, a publication of the Apartment Assn. of Greater Los Angeles, an apartment owners' service group
COVER STORY : The Man Behind the Monster : It may be hard to recall life before MTV, but Bob Pittman, who shaped and sold the concept, remembers it well ROBERT PITTMAN, Robert Pittman started his broadcasting career at the age of 15 as a disc jockey in Mississippi. In the mid-'70s, he engineered the rise to dominance of WMAQ in Chicago and WNBC in New York. He joined Warner Amex in 1979 at age 25 as director of programming and soon became vice president with responsibility in developing new programming, out of which came . Pittman was president and chief executive officer of MTV Networks before leaving in 1986. He continues to launch new cable channels for Time Warner; his latest is Court TV