Word: profited
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that subject the 53-year-old scholar of education has no shortage of opinions. He spends a lot of time thinking about such topical educational issues as the Edison Project, the experimental, for-profit school system for which Benno Schmidt abandoned the Yale presidency last year...
...kind of programs that some other schools can put together. Major universities in the Midwest host the likes of M.C. Hammer, Guns N' Roses, Bob Dylan and U2 on their campuses. They turn over their stadiums and concert spaces to agents and collect a percentage of the profits. It doesn't cost them anything except the maintenance of the facility--and students even profit by being able to work major shows...
...case in point was the Spin Doctors debacle last February. Treasurer Michael P. Beys '94 and his friends held a private, for-profit, off-campus party with the rock group. With Heinicke's support, Beys pushed through a resolution to lend the U.C.'s name and $20 of its money to promote the event. Personal pork barrels shouldn't be the business of the U.C. Duncan, for one, voted against the measure...
According to Una Okonkwo `94, co-president of the association, members were working on behalf of Oxfam America, a non-profit relief organization...
...worldwide non-profit agency "funds self-help development and disaster relief projects in Africa, Asia, the Americas and the Caribbean," according to its literature...