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University of Mississippi student was intoxicated during deadly fall

JACKSON Miss. The University of Mississippi student who died after suffering massive head trauma when he fell from a tree was drunk when the accident happened, officials said Thursday.

September 20, 2007

University of Washington in race with transit and economy for stadium renovations

SEATTLE Todd Turner and Husky Stadium are in a race that has nothing to do with which school in the Pac-10 has the nicest football stadium.

September 20, 2007

Faculty & Staff

UCI chancellor apologizes for flap over law dean’s rejection

IRVINE Calif. The embattled chancellor of the University of California, Irvine, avoided a public rebuke from faculty Thursday as he apologized for withdrawing an offer to make a liberal legal scholar the founding dean of the university’s new law school.

September 20, 2007

Maryland congressman urges GOP frontrunners to attend Morgan State University forum moderated by Tavis Smiley

BALTIMORE Maryland Democratic Rep. Elijah Cummings, a former head of the Congressional Black Caucus, is urging Republican presidential frontrunners to participate in a forum next week focusing on minority issues.

September 20, 2007

Leadership & Policy

Florida A&M names Harris as basketball coach

TALLAHASSEE Fla. Former Florida State basketball star Eugene Harris was introduced Thursday as the head basketball coach at Florida A&M, although details on his contract with the school remain to be finalized.

September 20, 2007

Community Colleges

Perspectives: Birmingham News editorial on Alabama’s two-year college system

The discovery of a little-known foundation for Alabama’s two-year college system is further proof these kinds of private entities need more regulation.

September 19, 2007

Yale student facing voyeurism charges

NEW HAVEN Conn. A Yale sophomore is facing criminal charges, including voyeurism, for allegedly showing a video to his four roommate of himself and his then-girlfriend having sex.

September 19, 2007

20-year-old gets life for killing USC basketball player

BATON ROUGE La. The man convicted of killing a University of Southern California basketball player has been formally sentenced to life in prison, the only sentence possible for second-degree murder.

September 19, 2007

Leadership & Policy

Blumenthal now UC Santa Cruz’s permanent chancellor

SANTA CRUZ Calif. Astrophysicist George Blumenthal, acting chancellor for 14 months at University of California, Santa Cruz, was named the school’s permanent chancellor.

September 19, 2007

SUNY hospital plans half-billion dollar expansion

SYRACUSE N.Y. The State University of New York’s Upstate Medical University wants to embark on a $510 million expansion to create additional classrooms and student housing in downtown Syracuse.

September 19, 2007

Hergert fights University of Nebraska lawsuit over chicory crop

SCOTTSBLUFF Neb. An attorney for former University of Nebraska Regent Dave Hergert says Hergert shouldn’t be named as a defendant in a University of Nebraska lawsuit over a chicory crop.

September 19, 2007

Faculty & Staff

A beloved professor delivers lecture of a lifetime

Randy Pausch, a Carnegie Mellon University computer-science professor, was about to give a lecture Tuesday afternoon, but before he said a word, he received a standing ovation from 400 students and colleagues.

September 19, 2007

Families of college students grapple with privacy rules

For parents hoping to keep tabs on their college-bound kids this fall, schools have this advice: Get it in writing if you can.

September 19, 2007

Mississippi HBCUs have spent a third of $503M in Miss. college desegregation funds

OXFORD Miss. Mississippi’s three historically black universities have spent about $145 million of money allocated from settlement of a college desegregation case.

September 19, 2007

Thousands rally in La. to support Jena 6

JENA La. Thousands of chanting demonstrators filled the streets of this little Louisiana town Thursday in support of six black teenagers initially charged with attempted murder in the beating of a white classmate.

September 19, 2007

Tougaloo students plan to march in Jena

JACKSON Miss. About 70 students from Tougaloo College in Jackson are planning to join thousands of demonstrators in Jena, Louisiana.

September 19, 2007

Suspect in killings of New Jersey college students has informal extradition hearing

ANNAPOLIS Md. A suspect in the execution-style slayings of three college students in Newark, N.J., had an informal extradition hearing Thursday.

September 19, 2007

Pulling the scab off an old wound at wrong time

Four years ago, Donovan McNabb got off to a lousy start and Rush Limbaugh said the media propped him up because it was “very desirous” to see black quarterbacks succeed.

September 19, 2007