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Indicted regent skipped multple meetings
Before being indicted in 2007, then University of Alaska board of regents member Jim Hayes, was absent "for almost half of the 2006 meetings after the investigations began and all of the meetings" until the story ran. He missed 30 votes.
Tags: University of Alaska; governing board; misuse of funds; federal funds; non-profit; Board of Regents; vote; education
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Pork in the sky
Washington Post Magazine recounts how U.S. Sen. Ted Stevens (R. - Alaska) secured over $57 million for the University of Alaska-Fairbanks for the study of the aurora borealis and its possible energy potential; makes the case that academia is the latest area of pork-barrel politics.
Tags: pork-barrel politics; federal budget; federal spending
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Anchorage Daily News takes a comprehensive look at sports and education at University of Alaska-Anchorage, finding that most athletes do not graduate, May 18 - 21, 1986.
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