Word: shellfish
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Officials at Branders University this week denied reports that the addition of pork and shellfish to the campus cuisine has cost the school millions of dollars in alumni support and led to widespread student unrest at the predominantly Jewish school...
According to the student newspaper, an unnamed "senior fundraiser" said that the university has lost millions of dollars because, as a result of the pork and shellfish, it was written out of the wills of at least two potential major donors...
Only a small group of people "consider the addition of pork and shellfish an issue," said Sally Riggs, a spokesman for Brandeis's president. She said she was unaware of Brandeis having been excluded from almuni wills on account of the cuisine change...
Brandeis's decision to serve pork and shellfish in the cafeteria may make the school less appealing to the religiously observant than other schools that have "strong Hillel programs," the counselors said in a panel discussion...
...hundreds of miles of ocean to lay eggs on the same sections of the same beaches. If the beach has eroded badly, a turtle is forced by instinct to use it anyway, dooming the eggs to be washed away or eaten by seabirds and raccoons. Least terns, Gulf Coast shellfish and beach-spawning fish, like the California grunion, are also in danger...