If you're a Tennessee college student, you don't have to graduate to start working in the corporate world. The corporate world comes to you. Hundreds of millions of dollars a year flow into state schools from corporate and military interests. Businesses sponsor research, share technology, take in student interns, lease space on university campuses and, eventually, hire their graduates. |
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Margaret Bassett passed away August 21, 2011. She was a treasured member of the Opednews.com editorial team for four years.
Margaret Bassett--OEN editor--is an 89-year old, currently living in senior housing, with a lifelong interest in political philosophy. Bachelors from State University of Iowa (1944) and Masters from Roosevelt University (1975) help to unravel important requirements for modern communication. Early introduction to computer science (1966) trumps them. It's payback time. She's been "entitled" so long she hopes to find some good coming off the keyboard into the lives of those who come after her.