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Last November, a group of universities, which included Harvard, Yale, and Boston University, came together to support a joint statement announcing a broad-based commitment to “promote availability of health technologies in developing countries for essential medical care.” One of the key points of this document stated that university intellectual property should not serve as a barrier to global access: Drugs created in academic labs should not be priced out of reach for poor people in poor countries. The joint statement has now gained the support of the National Institute of Health, the Center...
...pointed out that Wheeler continued to lie in his applications to Yale, Brown, and McLean Hospital, even after being dismissed from both Bowdoin College in Maine—where he spent his first two undergraduate years—and Harvard for academic dishonesty...
...Akash Maharaj was accepted as a transfer student to Yale with perfect As in the 18 courses on his Columbia transcript and an extremely positive recommendation from a professor in the department of Slavic languages and literatures. The problem was, as the Yale Daily News points out, "none of it was true." He was later convicted of stealing $31,000 in scholarships from Yale...
Also in 1995, Lon “L.T.” Grammer was expelled from Yale and charged with larceny after it was revealed that he had forged parts of his transfer application. He was revealed as a fraud after his former roommate overheard him bragging about fooling the Yale Office of Admissions and reported him to the Yale Police Department...
...Patrick McDermit was admitted to Yale "under the fictitious alter-ego of a 23-year-old Shumash-Jewish multi-millionaire named Andreas Alrea." As he told the Yale Daily News shortly after his expulsion from Yale in 1977, "the sum of what I told them and what I sent them was so fantastic that they couldn’t fail to believe...