February 8, 2002

U. of South Dakota President Takes Leave to Run for Governor

The president of the University of South Dakota is at least temporarily ditching academe to run for governor.

James W. Abbott is taking an unpaid leave to seek the Democratic nomination. Mr. Abbott, who has led the university since 1997, had told the state's Board of Regents in December that he would resign from his $135,931-a-year job if the leave were not granted.

Mr. Abbott, a former state representative who ran unsuccessfully for the U.S. House of Representatives in 1996,

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