North Idaho College Faculty Pan Spending on Antiterrorism School.

By Taryn Brodwater, The Spokesman-Review, Spokane, Wash. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Sep. 12--COEUR D'ALENE, Idaho--North Idaho College's spending on its antiterrorism school is "excessive and lacked proper scrutiny," the Faculty Assembly said in a resolution Thursday.

Since fall 2001, NIC has spent about $650,000 from its general and reserve funds on the Fort Sherman Institute, which some say was supposed to be self-supporting. The institute is part of NIC's Workforce Training Center and provides hostage survival training to groups including b