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UK UNIVERSITY TO LINK WITH BURSON-MARSTELLER

MUNKLE | 05.04.2001 13:35

Leeds Metropolitan University to link with PR giant Burson-Marsteller. The company are to provide input into LMU's courses, share research, provide visiting lecturers and offer undergraduate and graduate training programmes. Harold Burson is to be awarded a Visiting Professorship.

Students at Leeds Metropolitan University have launched a campaign to try and prevent this link up from taking place. Free speech is under threat in the university as posters advertising the campaign are torn down within minutes. WE DESPERATELY NEED ANY INFO TO DO WITH CURRENT PR OPERATIONS BURSON-MARSTELLER ARE DOING FOR ANY OF THEIR CLIENTS. Students feel that if Burson-Marsteller are allowed into Leeds Metropolitan University it may seriously damage any academic freedom within the institution. Given Burson-Marsteller's track record for infiltrating research groups, this is a well founded claim.

If anyone has any info an they please e-mail the campaign:

 haroldburson@hotmail.com

MUNKLE
- e-mail: munkle55@hotmail.com
- Homepage: www.resist.org.uk/lmu.html