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The Villain by Will StewartTechSideline.com, 5/20/03 How unfortunate and sad, that the fate of the Big East Conference lies in the hands of someone with no appreciation for its history and no qualms about its destruction: University of Miami President Donna Shalala. The Big East Conference has been in existence for 24 years as a basketball-playing conference, and 13 years as a football-playing conference. Its members have won multiple national championships in men's basketball, football, and women's basketball. The league was built over the years on the dreams and hard work of thousands of administrators, thousands of coaches, thousands of...

The FIRE This TimeBy Richard L. CravattsFrontPageMagazine.com | May 8, 2003 In two recent controversies simmering on American campuses, university administrators seem to be giving credence to an observation by Abigail Thernstrom, who categorized left-leaning, politically correct institutions of higher education as "an island of repression in a sea of freedom." Instead of serving as marketplaces of ideas, universities continue to implement policies that control speech and attitudes that do not conform to the prevailing liberal view of politics, race, or culture. Despite violating the very principals of free and open thought they so vigorously expose, campus administrators, in the...

INDIANAPOLIS -- An Atlanta company has interviewed more than 80 candidates to replace outgoing NCAA president Cedric Dempsey, a member of the search committee told The Associated Press. The search committee has not yet received the names, but expects the field to be narrowed later this month, said University of Tulsa president Bob Lawless, chairman of the NCAA's executive committee, which must approve the new president. Dempsey, who has led college athletics' largest governing body since 1994, announced in January he would retire when his term ends at the end of the year. "The search firm has been out...