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David Bullitt sued the corporations for being "deprived of the full society, comfort, guidance, support and consortium of his father" as a result of the elder Bullitt's smoking, Traficanti said...
...Northeastern's University Degree Completion Program, started last year by Political Scientist Richard Lapchick (son of the redoubtable St. John's University basketball coach Joe Lapchick). Under U.D.C.P., 27 Boston-area professional players finished credit courses given by Northeastern professors. This year the program has expanded to a consortium that includes ten other schools and extends to ex-collegians who never made it to the pros...
Though such steps are heartening, concerned academics like Harry Edwards remain impatient at the slow pace of fundamental change. Berkeley, which has joined the Lapchick consortium, has not yet enrolled any local pros. Neighboring University of San Francisco has enlisted just one. Meanwhile, the majority of major sports colleges go on shuffling their players through, mainly to the limbo of underqualified, often marginally employed ex-jocks. "It's a plantation system," growls Edwards. "They use up (the athletes), and when they're finished, there's no place...
...that hasn't stopped Pittsburgh's Carnegie-Mellon University from trying to patch up "the family" by joining a consortium of private and public investors which this month announced they will buy the Bucs for $22 million...
Many of the scientific breakthroughs that businesses will need in order to make Star Wars a reality may come from university laboratories. SDIO has awarded $19 million to a five-member consortium made up of Auburn, Polytechnic Institute of New York, the State University of New York at Buffalo, Texas Tech and the University of Texas at Arlington. Their mission: to develop a power system for Star Wars weaponry. SDIO also approved a $9 million grant to a group of scientists at nine universities and other research institutions, including Carnegie-Mellon, Caltech, M.I.T. and Stanford. They will try to develop...