Wartzman to run Drucker

Rick Wartzman, former editor of West magazine and the LAT's Business section, takes over Monday as director of the Drucker Institute at Claremont Graduate University. The institute runs programs and houses the archives of Peter F. Drucker, the "father of modern management" who died in 2005. Wartzman left the Times at the start of the year when it became clear the editors above him were going to cut back and reinvent West, his recent creation. His column in the Business section was terminated last month. Wartzman will keep his gig as a senior fellow at the New America Foundation. Wartzman also is writing Obscene in the Extreme: The Burning and Banning of The Grapes of Wrath.