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“I think most people who look at Miami under her presidency would say it’s a vastly superior institution,” said John Burness, a former public affairs chief at universities including Illinois, Cornell and Duke. “But it’s a mark of the power of big-time athletics that it can take the integrity of the (whole) institution down.”

Look. If you can’t make that campus attractive to people (UD has seen its palm-lined splendor), you’re not much of a president. Shalala did accomplish this.

Her problem is that she did it indiscriminately. She just looked at anything that might tart up the place and went there: football, Nemeroff:

The former secretary of health and human services raised some eyebrows when Miami hired Charles Nemeroff, a star researcher who left a previous job at Emory during a conflict-of-interest scandal, to lead the medical school’s psychiatry program.

Shalala swung wild and wide. And struck out.

Margaret Soltan, August 27, 2011 10:11AM
Posted in: conflict of interest, sport

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  1. dave.s. Says:
    August 28th, 2011 at 6:34AM

    Burness was the guy whose task it was to put forward the Duke administration’s bobbings and weavings during the Lacrosse Unpleasantness, so he is well fitted to putting the best face on things.

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