Word: urbana
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...public universities. Democratic Governor Anthony Earl of Wisconsin set aside $1 million in his 1983-85 budget to boost the pay of outstanding professors at the university's 13 campuses. In June, Illinois passed a one-year increase in income, sales and gas taxes, which will provide the Urbana and Chicago campuses with $26.6 million more this year. But for the foreseeable future, public universities will be at the mercy of the political priorities and economic conditions of the states. And until economic recovery swells tax receipts, many states will not have enough money to go around. -By Ellie...
Danny Samson Urbana...
Craig Gates Urbana...
...report was widely praised round the world-and also subjected to some telling criticism. The most blistering attack has been launched by Julian Simon, a professor of economics and business administration at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. In the winter issue of the Public Interest, a neoconservative quarterly, Simon charges that the presidential panel and staff who wrote the report consisted almost entirely of well known Cassandras of the environmental movement. In making their predictions Simon argues, these prophets of doom relied on shoddy research and dubious analytical tools...
...URBANA, Ill.--The university of Illinois in Urbana had more violent crimes in 1979 than any other college campus in the country, the Federal Bureau of Investigation reported in its annual crime report. Fifty violent crimes--rapes, robberies and aggravated assaults--were reported at the university...