December 1, 2000

The Academy and the Mob

By BURTON BOLLAG

Italian prosecutors attempt to loosen the firm grip of the Mafia on the U. of Messina

Imagine a major university infiltrated from top to bottom by criminals. Contracts for supplies and services go to "friendly" companies, and competing bidders are threatened with violence. A professor of medicine is charged not only with recruiting students for drug trafficking but with arranging for the murder of a fellow professor. A gang based in a student dormitory uses intimidation and violence to

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