Word: pennsylvania
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...endorsed by legislators get into professional schools-at least those schools heavily supported by the state. Normally, no one is the wiser, but this month a federal trial in Philadelphia threw unexpected light on what apparently has been a time-honored custom. Herbert Fineman, 56, the powerful speaker of Pennsylvania's house of representatives, was found guilty of obstructing justice during a U.S. probe into admissions practices of Philadelphia's medical and graduate schools...
Federal prosecutors introduced letters Fineman had written to deans of Pennsylvania schools in which he extolled candidates for admission. One, sent to the Temple University School of Law (the university received $66 million last year from the state), bluntly stated: "I think it would be extremely helpful to Temple if the application were favorably acted upon." (The student was accepted.) Mark Allam, retired dean of the University of Pennsylvania's School of Veterinary Medicine, testified that he had jumped a Fineman candidate over candidates who were better qualified because he did not want to jeopardize state funding...
...other Pennsylvania political figures are awaiting trial. State Senator Francis Lynch and former State Representative Stephen Wojdak have been charged with extorting $15,000 from a dentist to obtain his son's admission to the Temple University School of Dentistry. The U.S. investigation is continuing, and the pressure has shifted from the dean's office to the statehouse...
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA...
...bring the workers' revolt to the Yard. Then he met his roommates--an obnoxious Jewish debater from the area who didn't know a thing about Cesar Chavez but knew Ralph Nader was gong to make Aermica safe for democracy, and a completely apolitical Indian chemistry major from Pennsylvania who liked to lift weights and root for the bad guyson the T.V. wrestling matches. The wind may not have gone all the way out of Paco's sails, but the tide was sure as hell running against...