could read along from a newspaper article as Whitaker spoke. To the consternation of ASU faculty members (the chairman of the tenure committee resigned in protest) an investigating committee concluded there was no pattern of deceit and the copying had been inadvertent. The matter arose again in 2014 with another Whitaker book, Peace Be Still: Modern Black America From World War II to Barack Obama. A blogger writing under an apparent pseudonym set out side-by-side excerpts from Whitaker's book and material available on the Web at sites like infoplease.com and the Archive of American Television. Whitaker has also been accused of appropriating training materials produced by the Chicago Police Department, which he used as the basis for a lucrative contract with the Phoenix Police Department. Whitaker was to receive $268,800 to provide "cultural-consciousness training" to Phoenix police. The Phoenix Police Department wants the $21,900 it has paid thus far to be repaid. Whitaker was placed on administrative leave on September 17, 2015, while the university investigated allegations that "his behavior has fallen short of expectations as a faculty member and a scholar." In January 2016 ASU announced that he had resigned these positions. Sale/leaseback of public land Private corporations leasing public land from the university in furtherance of their corporate mission (which in the case of private employers includes making profit) are revealed to pay no taxes to the state because the land is owned by a state public entity. Taxpayers were never given a vote to permit profit-seeking ventures on state lands, which have historically existed to serve the public good. The state universities later lobbied the Arizona legislature to keep the loophole open for future use by the universities. This scheme, called a "tax dodge" by its detractors, enables private businesses to avoid "paying $90 million to $120 million in property taxes" to the state of Arizona. Required sports fees and new stadium Arizona State, one of the in-state colleges, requires its students to pay a mandatory sports and athletic fee, regardless of whether the students participate in such activities. The fees are a part of a total $10.6 million in fees collected from students. The fees go to non-academic programs including "Game day operations, marketing, game-day giveaways and maintenance". Students may not opt-out of the fees. While ASU has increased tuition over 100% over the 2007–2018 timeframe, the university found the money to demolish and rebuild a