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Having been denied the right to puff in public buildings, workplaces and bars, staff and student smokers in Pennsylvania public colleges and universities now find themselves forced to leave campus property before lighting up. And they're fighting back. Opposition is mounting to a new ordinance banning smoking anywhere within the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education (PASSHE). As one of the most far-reaching prohibitions in the country, the ordinance forbids smoking both inside and outside campus buildings, in all resident halls and parking lots, and even on university-owned sidewalks. "It's one thing to stop smoking indoors...
...School officials counter that the new policy is necessary under a statewide smoking ban passed by Pennsylvania's legislature in June. That law forbids smoking in most workplaces and public spaces, including educational facilities. PASSHE chancellor John Cavanaugh has said that he interprets the prohibition to extend beyond just school buildings to all campus grounds, such as athletic fields, pathways or courtyards. "Many of our classes meet outdoors when the weather is nice," says PASSHE spokesman Kenn Marshall. "So it'd be very difficult to pick and choose when to forbid smoking. We chose a comprehensive ban instead...
...dwellers do the fighting and hourly-wage work now." Klein insults our intelligence, our work ethic and our values when he suggests that we live in a place where "myths are more potent than the hope of getting past the dour realities." Oh, I forgot--like our brethren in Pennsylvania, we embrace guns and religion to escape the harsh realties of our existence. Steve Mohr, BUCYRUS, OHIO...
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...relatively unchanged at $17.2 billion, after expenditures. Officials at Harvard’s neighbor, MIT, said yesterday that it had managed a 3.2 percent return over the past year. Its endowment now totals $10.1 billion. The largest higher educational endowment to announce a loss so far, the University of Pennsylvania, dropped 3.9 percent on the year. But the Philadelphia school still bested the negative 4.4 percent median return of 165 peer institutions, as measured by the Trust Universe Comparison Service. While these returns pale in comparison to the consistent double-digit returns posted by the wealthiest university endowments over...