June 15, 2001

Publicity Hounds Prey on McVeigh

By JENNIFER YACHNIN

Have they no shame? In the quest for publicity, dozens of colleges are pitching their professors as experts to comment to reporters on the execution of Timothy McVeigh, scheduled for June 11.

While college officials acknowledge that they are using the Oklahoma City bomber to put their own institutions in the limelight, they shrug off comparisons to vultures.

Gary L. McDonald, a University of San Francisco spokesman, says the planned execution has been treated like any other

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