There was a parallel universe quality of the image of him walking on stage at the university's Wadsworth Theater.
"We hadn't been able to speak to our university presidents, so to get invited to speak to White House officials seemed like a parallel universe," Brodsky said.
Grafton in a parallel universe.
While the college basketball coaching roulette wheel spins into a bizarre parallel universe -- an actual university hired Steve Lavin?
But the case is also emblematic of a parallel judicial universe that exists at many of the country's colleges and universities.
But here's the difference: In this parallel universe, Catholic universities only educate Catholic students and only employ Catholic staff.
Tuition charges now make up 26% of the earnings of public universities, nearly twice the level in 1998; many professors are paid according to the number of students they attract; and China is creating a parallel system of private universities alongside the public ones.
A parallel program started by a university professor, called Football Without Offsides, encourages girls, most from Turkish, Arabic and Eastern European backgrounds, to play soccer at school at ages 9, 10 and 11 — sometimes with their mothers playing alongside them.
These broader circumstances have shaped a parallel, worker-driven campaign at universities for higher wages and improved benefits.
