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...money isn't the only problem. Colleges such as Morehouse, Spelman and Howard have also increased their enrollments as more and more Black students have chosen these mostly Black schools...
...person can buy a great university, of course, but a few paltry million can get you some little pieces. Bill Cosby and his wife Camille donated $20 million to Atlanta's Spelman College, a private liberal arts school for black women; most of the money was allocated to the Camille Olivia Hanks Cosby Academic Center. In 1985 the W.M. Keck Foundation gave $70 million to Caltech, which now has a telescope called Keck I and, for $72 million more, will soon have Keck II. Publishing magnate Walter Annenberg has the University of Pennsylvania School for Communication named after...
...accounts. A check for $10,000 will buy a carrel in the refurbished University of California, Berkeley, law library at Boalt Hall, which will open in 1994. A Princeton University giver can get his or her name engraved on the back of a chapel pew for $5,000. At Spelman, $10,000 to $15,000 will pay for a decorative fountain. The University of Houston's College of Optometry sells cushioned seats and desks at $300 a pop for its continuing-education courses...
...Kerrey had the right cast, but he needs better writers. Speaking at Atlanta's Spelman College, surrounded by uniformed veterans (hint, hint), he declared that if Clinton got the nomination, Bush would open him up like a soft peanut. He later corrected himself, substituting a boiled peanut, only to seem stuck on an unfamiliar Southernism...
...then the challenges of fitting two careers into one marriage never promised to be easy. "Each has got to pull some weight and make some compromises," says Johnnetta Cole, 53, who balances the demands of a marriage and five grown sons against her duties as president of Atlanta's Spelman College. "There's got to be an awful lot of dialogue because the rules are new." And they are always changing...