37 at Italian University Charged With Mafia Ties

Italian academe has been both shaken and relieved by the arrests in October of 37 faculty members and students at the University of Messina, in Sicily, on charges of being involved in Mafia criminal activities. An additional 79 faculty members have been placed under formal investigation.

Italian higher education has a reputation for corruption and nepotism. But this is the first case of what state investigators call large-scale Mafia infiltration of a

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