Entries for December 14, 2006

New DNA evidence sheds more doubt on accusations against three former Duke athletes charged with rape, kidnapping, and sexual offense. The tests, performed by a private lab hired by the prosecution, found no DNA from any of the three players on their alleged victim, the Duke Chronicle reports. A trial is set to begin in the spring.

Despite protests from black students who say the move cuts diversity out of the student government, the music chairperson for the student body could be facing impeachment, the Daily Targum reports. Council members cited "lack of communication, neglect of responsibilities, and perpetual tardiness." The Rutgers music chair admitted his position as president of the Black Men's Collective sometimes forced him to miss council meetings. Meanwhile, an editorial pleads with the council to continue its tradition of making its sponsored performances diverse.

University of New Mexico officials met with national leaders of Sigma Chi, the fraternity the university suspended five years ago after members vandalized a car parked illegally in their parking lot by taping a swastika on it and leaving a hate letter. The topic of the discussion: cultural sensitivity. "This is about how we, as a fraternity, can work on the schools we're on to address this issue campuswide," a representative tells the Daily Lobo.

Now that one Boston University student, who spent years after high school in the Marine Corps because he could not afford college, has left Iraq, collected the Marines' $80,000 stipend, and enrolled in a four-year university, he does not intend to mess around. "I really want this," he told the Daily Free Press. "I had to kill to get here."

• The Yale professor whose "Diagnosis" column inspired the television show House is still a consultant for the show, the Yale Daily News reports.
• Final exams are hard but much harder when you also have a part-time job, the Auburn Plainsman reports.
• Former Ball State football players arrested for suspicion of robbery are now former Ball State students--but it's not clear whether they chose to leave BSU or were asked to, the Daily News reports.