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Associated Students of Stanford University (ASSU) Vice-President, Nicholas Thompson, founded FUNC or "Forget U.S. News Coalition" in 1996 as a show of support for Reed College's decision not to participate in the U.S. News and World Report survey. [15], [16] FUNC eventually spread to other colleges and universities and was composed of a "group of students at universities across the country who argue that ranking something as complex and variable as a college education with a single number is an oversimplification. FUNC claims that the process makes college administrations focus on numerical rankings rather than on educating students." [17]
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The Stanford team, led by Emmanuel Mignot, MD, PhD, associate professor of psychiatry and director of the Stanford Center for Narcolepsy, searched for defects in the brains and genes of narcolepsy patients from around the world. The team found that a small protein - or peptide - present in the brain cells of normal people was absent in every narcoleptic brain that they studied
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FUNC ... involved then-Stanford President Gerhard Casper. On 23 September 1996, Casper sent a letter to James Fallows, editor of U.S. News & World Report, stating, "As the president of a university that is among the top-ranked universities, I hope I have the standing to persuade you that much about these rankings - particularly their specious formulas and spurious precision—is utterly misleading." [18]
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