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...Further, a group of northeastern schools annually cite each others' price raises to justify pushing their own fees into the $19,000-range, far in excess of inflation. Finally, some of the schools admit to sharing the range of their tuition increases with each other well in advance of public notification...
...threat is this: the schools, perhaps believing that they are acting for one institution--"American higher education"--may be bilking the public and their own staffs, faculty and students by not aggressively keeping costs down and arranging salaries, housing costs and other fees in the open market...
...Vice-President Brian W. LeClair told the council that if passed, the proposals "will give the public a more specific base to have confidence in elected officials...
LeClair said in an interview that certain forms of behavior--such as loans from one public official to another--are currently considered politically unwise. But, "believe it or not, most of these kinds of things do not violate much of anything," he said...
...chastened by the events that are true but he's damned if he's going to run from allegations that are garbage," said Sachs. "Barney's been forthcoming about this publicly. He is equally certain that there has been a substantial amount of untruth peddled, or attempted to be peddled, in the public press...