What's the difference between campus and champerty?

Campus


Definition:

  • (n.) The principal grounds of a college or school, between the buildings or within the main inclosure; as, the college campus.

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  • (1) Until his return to Brazil in 1985, Niemeyer worked in Israel, France and north Africa, designing among other buildings the University of Haifa on Mount Carmel; the campus of Constantine University in Algeria (now known as Mentouri University); the offices of the French Communist party and their newspaper l'Humanité in Paris; and the ministry of external relations and the cathedral in Brasilia.
  • (2) The affiliation set up a joint venture to operate two clinics, one on Scholl College's traditional campus and one at the teaching hospital.
  • (3) 31 junior high students and seven university undergraduates who graduated from the same junior high school seven years before were asked to draw a layout of the school campus.
  • (4) These outbreaks affected 21 college and secondary school campuses with 91 cases of measles and led to the administration of 53,093 doses of vaccine at a cost in excess of $859,000 for vaccine alone.
  • (5) Medical Sciences Campus was conducted by means of a 55 item questionnaire.
  • (6) We surveyed 158 college freshmen on an urban campus to determine their sexual practices and their knowledge and attitudes about acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS).
  • (7) Four University of the Free State students filmed themselves drinking in a bar and then one of them urinating into a stew before feeding it to five black staff members, four of them women, at their dormitory on the Bloemfontein campus accompanied by shouts of "take it, take it".
  • (8) Police investigating the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University massacre, which left 33 dead, mainly students, blamed Cho, a fourth-year English student who lived on the campus, for earlier incidents ranging from stalking women to setting fire to a dormitory.
  • (9) Hugging the other side of the Dora Riparia river in Vanchiglia is Foster + Partners ’ curvaceous new Campus Luigi Einaudi, while to the west in Borgo Dora is performance venue Cortile del Maglio and writing school Scuola Holden .
  • (10) A children's institution offers a creative program for single mothers and their families--a 24-hour child care facility on the campus that provides residential service for the entire family.
  • (11) Melissa Miller, an associated professor of political science at Bowling Green state university in northern Ohio, said it was notable that Obama and his running mate, Joe Biden, made many more visits to Ohio campuses this year.
  • (12) Rhodes donated the land on which the UCT campus is built.
  • (13) Graham Greene’s American agent, Alden Pyle, has an “unused face” and a “wide campus gaze”.
  • (14) He was speaking as 670 bishops prepared to leave the University of Kent campus after 18 days of reflection, prayers, conversations and efforts to hold a divided communion together.
  • (15) A 100% response was obtained from the 49 campuses on the original list.
  • (16) Trends in collegiate drinking are examined from data collected on two campuses of the University of California in 1979, 1981 and 1984.
  • (17) The authors of this article explored the integration of deaf and hearing students on the campus and the attitudes surrounding deaf-hearing relationships.
  • (18) This article describes a 5-year effort to integrate special and regular students on a campus where special and regular education students are housed in separate but adjacent facilities with separate administrators.
  • (19) The author gives a survey of the psychosocial support services on the VUB campus.
  • (20) The group blockaded five entrances to the university's Edgbaston campus earlier this month to raise awareness of the pay ratio between the lowest- and the highest-paid staff.

Champerty


Definition:

  • (n.) Partnership in power; equal share of authority.
  • (n.) The prosecution or defense of a suit, whether by furnishing money or personal services, by one who has no legitimate concern therein, in consideration of an agreement that he shall receive, in the event of success, a share of the matter in suit; maintenance with the addition of an agreement to divide the thing in suit. See Maintenance.

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