Word: northwestern
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Once able to locate the brain's opiate receptors, scientists can use their new strategies to draw a biochemical map of all the other neurotransmitters and to learn how chemicals plug into the brain. At Northwestern University, Aryeh Routtenberg is studying the chemical pathways of the brain's reward system, which when stimulated produces sensations of pleasure. If schizophrenics are indeed on a dopamine "high."; their internal reward systems may be constantly turned on. His University of Chicago colleague Richard J. Miller is tracing the link between dopamine and endorphins. At M.I.T., Richard Wurtman, who is studying various...
...problem is further complicated by degree factories. One, called Pacific Northwestern University, offered a bachelor's degree in an assortment of subjects for $85, a master's for $140 and a doctorate for $195, as well as authentic-looking transcripts. P.N.U. was closed down last spring but not before creating 350 "graduates." Degree-mill operators can be indicted for mail fraud. Yet the legality of lying about academic accomplishments is murky. Employers could sue; but they usually just fire...
...Harvard beats Princeton in tennis, 5-4 (comparable to Northwestern beating Ohio State in football) to win the league title in legendary coach Jack Barnaby's last year...
Other institutions are facing powerful inflationary pressures. Stanford's annual energy bill rose in three years from $1.6 million to $3.9 million; similar increases have hit the University of Southern California, which is one of Los Angeles' top ten electricity consumers. At Illinois' Northwestern, many buildings are left unheated on evenings and weekends in midwinter. "We'll issue sweaters," gibes Vice President Lee Ellis. Then he adds: "No. We can't afford sweaters. We'll issue a memo telling people to wear sweaters...
...shocks of the '70s hit the schools like a scale8 earthquake. Says University of Chicago Sociologist Edward Shils: "We went mad over higher education. Giving every teen-ager an opportunity to go to college became a mark of American grandeur in the world. It was a silly delusion." Northwestern's Ellis puts it more simply: "We let ourselves get fat." Sound management principles were ignored. Argues Sumner G. Rahr, a fund-raising consultant: "The businessmen on college boards didn't apply tough financial standards at board meetings. They figured, 'Oh, the nuns will come through again...