May 23, 2003

Derailed Ambition

A construction project leads to financial disaster for U. of Idaho and its private foundation

By JULIANNE BASINGER

When the University of Idaho set out to build a $136-million satellite campus in Boise that would house classrooms, retail space, and state and federal offices, the university's president, Robert A. Hoover, touted the project as a "new way to live, learn, and work" that would serve the state "in an unprecedented way."

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