I sigh with you. I am unfortunately a UConn alum too.
I recall a few years back the university was going to get a animal vaccine research center built on campus for a $1 price tag from Pfizer (a value of like $80 million) and a crew of several virology experts added to their animal science, molecular bio, and pathobiology departments. Instead, a small group of humanities students (with support from their marxist professors) protested the plan, put an enormous ammount of junk environmental science (about contaminating the rinking water supplye etc) on the radio. They got a lawyer friend to file in court. Pfizer and the university wanted to fight it but Pfizer couldn't afford ther delay to their operations. They pulled out and set up at a mid-west university with an agricultural program.
wow..lotta typos..sorry