Even more ominous, the illegal drug trade turns out to be the ultimate crime university and a godsend for terrorists.
"To give a bank ultimate control over university appointments and grant them the right to embargo faculty research results for up to two years is to abandon any illusion of university independence and self-governance," he said.
He found true meaning in his life when he joined the university ultimate frisbee team.
We built railroads, we built space ships, but in an old-fashioned education system, founded under the belief that being a judge was the ultimate career goal, universities must recommit to teaching skill sets around what we are capable of building now, before someone else does it first.
As with corporations, ultimate responsibility in a university rests, in theory at least, with the chief executive -- the university president.
Planning permission aside, the ultimate test for the university will be getting the right number of bums on seats.
The university's ultimate goal is £1.25 billion, a target announced in August 2004 when fundraising began and after receiving £230 million in donations last year.
He said that the board was "attentive" to the vote, and that while the board was still the university's ultimate authority, "the time has come to consider ways in which" the voice of the faculty "may be made even more meaningful".
The state's constitution provides for the Senate's "advice and consent" to Cabinet positions and gives the legislature ultimate authority over the university's board, but both changes abandon past practice in order to curtail Cooper's power before he takes office.
Today 750 colleges and universities field Ultimate teams.
