At Rutgers, Passing Marks for College, President

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THINGS are looking up at Rutgers. The football team has won a couple of games, although not against other Big East Conference schools. It has lost two games as well, unfortunately. On Saturday, against Syracuse, which is indeed a Big East school, Rutgers was defeated by 10 points. Still, the team managed to put 31 points on the scoreboard.

Elsewhere, the news is more encouraging. A year ago the state university and its president, Richard L. McCormick, were embroiled in an ill-conceived plan, embraced by Governor McGreevey, to merge Rutgers with the University of Medicine and Dentistry and with the New Jersey Institute of Technology.

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At Rutgers, Passing Marks for College, President

The chief proponent was Roy Vagelos, former chairman of Merck, the pharmaceutical company. The Institute of Technology was cautiously interested, as were scientists at Rutgers. But the medical university, correctly divining that it would lose its independ...

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