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Tulane player suspended from team, school after stabbing arrest
NEW ORLEANS Police on Friday arrested a Tulane University football player in the Bourbon Street stabbing that left five people hurt last weekend.
September 22, 2007
Leadership & Policy
University of Minnesota workers suspend strike, weigh offer to end more than 2-week walkout
MINNEAPOLIS Clerical and health care workers at the University of Minnesota abandoned picket lines Friday and will vote on a contract offer that could end their more than two-week-long strike.
September 22, 2007
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Stanford protests over Rumsfeld appointment at Hoover Institution
SAN FRANCISCO Thousands of Stanford University students, faculty and alumni are protesting the conservative Hoover Institution’s decision to appoint former U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld as a visiting fellow.
September 22, 2007
Sports
University of North Dakota athletic director says school lacks resources for transition
GRAND FORKS N.D. University of North Dakota athletic director Tom Buning says he and his staff are overworked and don’t have enough money to make a proper transition to the NCAA Division I.
September 22, 2007
Faculty & Staff
Western Washington University president announces her retirement
BELLINGHAM Wash. Western Washington University President Karen W. Morse, the longest-serving university president in the state, announced Friday she would retire Sept. 1, 2008.
September 22, 2007
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University of Hawaii acquires deadly viruses
HONOLULU The University of Hawaii has acquired several potential bioterrorism viruses, some of which cause encephalitis.
September 22, 2007
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Lawyer: Arrest of MIT student wearing fake bomb she claims is art was an overreaction
BOSTON The MIT student who walked into Logan International Airport wearing a computer circuit board and wiring on her sweat shirt claimed it was harmless artwork. But to troopers who arrested her at gunpoint, it was a fake bomb.
September 22, 2007
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Middlebury College gets archive from Hemingway and family
MIDDLEBURY Vt. No matter where he lived, Ernest Hemingway cared what people thought of him back home.
September 22, 2007
Students
California State University, Long Beach removes journalism chairman
LONG BEACH Calif. The chairman of the journalism department at California State University, Long Beach, lost his position after criticizing a plan to end print editions of the campus newspaper.
September 22, 2007
Students
Marshall University cracks down on illegal downloads
CHARLESTON W.Va. Illegal music downloading will no longer be tolerated at Marshall University after the recording industry sued two students.
September 22, 2007
Community Colleges
Community college instructor says he was fired for comments about Adam and Eve
DES MOINES Iowa A college instructor in Red Oak claims he was fired after he told his students that the biblical story of Adam and Eve is a fairy tale and should not be interpreted literally.
September 22, 2007
Leadership & Policy
University of West Georgia professor to run Alabama’s largest school system
MOBILE Ala. University of West Georgia professor Roy Nichols has been chosen as superintendent of Mobile County schools, the state’s largest system with some 65,000 students.
September 22, 2007
Leadership & Policy
Ohio State gives basketball coach Thad Matta $480,000 raise and adds a year to his contract
COLUMBUS Ohio Ohio State gave men’s basketball coach Thad Matta a raise of almost $500,000, boosting his salary to just under $2.5 million a year, and added a year to his contract to extend it through the 2016 season.
September 22, 2007
Students
West Kentucky University officials say protest won’t sway university’s no-gun policy
BOWLING GREEN Ky. A group of Western Kentucky University students are planning a protest next month to decry a campus policy banning guns.
September 22, 2007
Faculty & Staff
Leader picked for terrorism research center at Penn State
STATE COLLEGE Pa. An expert in the psychology of terrorism has been picked to direct a terrorism research center headquartered at Penn State University.
September 22, 2007
Leadership & Policy
Report: College president charged $25,000 in travel expenses
COLUMBUS Ohio The president of a technical college whose school is under investigation by the state attorney general’s office charged more than $25,000 in travel expenses to a credit card, a newspaper reported Saturday.
September 22, 2007
Leadership & Policy
Former Harvard president Summers disinvited from UC talk
Some consider Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad among the world’s most dangerous men, but Columbia University has resisted calls to rescind an invitation for him to speak there Monday.
September 22, 2007
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Ohio University professor pleads not guilty to drug charges
PARKERSBURG W.Va. An Ohio University engineer professor has pleaded not guilty to drug charges.
September 22, 2007
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