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...Tennessee Supreme Court ruled that a wife cannot recover damages for the loss of her husband's sexual potency, even though the state's law permits a husband to recover for the "loss of his wife's consortium."Mrs. Howard E. Krohn of Nashville had filed a $250,000 damage suit against the makers of the drug triparanol on the ground that it had rendered her husband impotent. The court ruled that in Tennessee an irate wife is entitled to her day in court only if she has suffered a personal attack, such as slanderous gossip...
Although the name consortium is new to education, the idea is an old one; Harvard and Radcliffe, for example, have formally permitted student exchange and coordinated their curriculums since 1943. The major growth of consortiums has come within the past five years, as schools both great and small have discovered that the pressure for excellence is forcing them to look beyond their own campuses for help. This has proved particularly true in the field of scientific research: universities have been able to undertake expensive projects together that none of them could have financed alone. In one such coalition, twelve universities...
Pressure for Excellence. Technically, the Central States Association is known as a "consortium," which today has become by far the most popular way for schools to make the most of their educational facilities. There are now at least 800 such arrangements to share the cost and spread the wealth in the U.S., with 200 more in the planning stage. "We can do things together that we can't do alone," says President Donald Kleckner of Elmhurst College, near Chicago, which is joining seven other small Midwestern schools next year to form the Mississippi Valley Association. "Many colleges are deciding...
...most logical consortiums are those arranged by small schools just a few blocks apart. In Fulton, Mo., for example, little William Woods and Westminster colleges saved nearly 15% on food service costs by hiring the same caterer. They have also agreed to share libraries, an auditorium and an infirmary, and even to conduct joint fund-raising campaigns. The students, of course, think this consortium is just fine: Westminster is a men's school, and William Woods is all-girl...
Most educators are unworried by the possibility that U.S. institutes of higher learning might eventually interlock into one big nationwide university, conclude that the consortium is the key to academic survival for small liberal-arts colleges. "There is no question that we are in for a permanent era of big higher education," said Louis Benezet, president of the Claremont Graduate School and University Center. "The nice little quiet campus that talks about the eternal verities is going to be passed over...