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"Some college administrators seem so distracted with fund raising, academic infighting, and community initiatives that they set up their emergency communications departments very poorly. Training is poor to nonexistent, secretaries are pressed into service with tremendous responsibilities for running 'notification systems' 24/7 and on weekends because no one else knows how to do it and the administration won’t pay for additional staff. Procedures are seat-of-the-pants and dependent on HIPPO (highest paid person’s opinion), except when something like Virginia Tech happens and there is some sort of scramble to do something different." --Donna
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Connecticut Public Colleges Lose 200 Professors to Early Retirement
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U. of Georgia Paid 2 Fraternities $2.4-Million to Relocate, Contracts Show
The two were among five with houses on property where the university plans to build new academic facilities.
New Allegations in Admissions Controversy at U. of Illinois Suggest Ex-Provost Played a Role
Linda P.B. Katehi, the incoming chancellor of the University of California at Davis, has insisted she knew nothing of the admission of politically connected applicants at Illinois.
Sonoma State U. Foundation May Lose $350,000 on Loan to Former Board Member
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June 5, 2007
Illinois Judge Throws Out Suits Seeking to Reinstate Controversial Mascot
A state judge in Illinois has thrown out two lawsuits that sought to get the University of Illinois to retain Chief Illiniwek as its mascot, The News-Gazette, a newspaper in Champaign, Ill., reported. The university’s Board of Trustees decided in February to banish the chief, ending a long-simmering dispute that had splintered the flagship campus at Urbana-Champaign and had led the NCAA to ban Illini teams from playing host to postseason sporting events.
One of the suits was filed by two Illinois students who had portrayed the chief, and the other by a local lawyer. The students had argued that the trustees’ action violated a 1996 statute enacted by the General Assembly that said Chief Illiniwek “is and may remain the honored symbol” of the university.
In today’s ruling, Judge Michael Q. Jones of the State Circuit Court for Champaign County rejected that argument. “Had the Legislature intended to remove from the trustees the authority to do anything with the symbol, they could have said so,” Judge Jones said, underscoring the use of the word “may” in the act. He also agreed with the arguments made by a lawyer for the university, that the students’ rights to free speech, expression, and academic freedom had not been violated. —Charles Huckabee
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