November 2, 2007

In Brief

TULANE MERGER: A Louisiana court of appeals ruled last month that Tulane University was within its rights to merge its undergraduate college for women into a new coeducational undergraduate division last year as a cost-saving measure after Hurricane Katrina. Two heirs of Josephine Louise Newcomb, the 19th-century donor whose gift established the H. Sophie Newcomb Memorial College, sued Tulane in May 2006, saying that the university had violated the terms of the donation agreement by

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