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...page of notes by President Neil L. Rudenstine was used as a court exhibit by the U.S. government in its antitrust case against MIT, according to the court documents...
Rudenstine hesitated to comment on aspects of the antitrust case, which was recently tried and is yet to be decided. Still, he said Princeton and other colleges participated in non "price-rigging...
Sure, we must have presidential leadership. But some of the greatest changes in our country were not originated by Presidents; they came about as a result of popular drives that Presidents joined, more or less, to lead. That was true of the antitrust and pure-food revolutions, of the union movement, environmental protection, auto safety, the tax revolt, civil rights, women's rights, gay rights (whatever you may think of them...
College officials say the bidding wars are the result of their agreement last spring to stop sharing financial aid information. The Department of Justice maintained the cooperation, known as "overlap" violated antitrust laws, and the colleges ceased sharing information in exchange for the Justice Department dropping a lawsuit against them. The colleges had defended the practice because they said it kept money from becoming a factor in college choice...
Later that same year, Perot wrote to IBM chairman Thomas Watson Jr. accusing Volding "of all kinds of unethical things" in preventing his upstart company from competing against IBM, says Volding. Big Blue, having faced antitrust + charges before, in the 1950s, started an investigation but soon cleared Volding of any wrongdoing. "Ross knew damn well I wasn't unethical," he says. "I think he was just trying to get IBM to pull back and give him a free hand in signing up our customers. He used threats all the time...