Entries for December 15, 2006

Police in Madison, Wis., have been using Facebook to track student parties since Halloween--and they will continue to do so in 2007. So might police in other states: The Madison cops tell the University of Wisconsin-Madison Daily Cardinal counterparts in Milwaukee and Nevada have called them to learn more about their techniques. Echoing the generational divide on ideas about privacy, Wisconsin students told the Daily Cardinal they didn't like police invading their lives, while a professor who studies Internet privacy said that was "naive." "Facebook is like walking down State Street naked," she says. "You wouldn't walk down State Street naked, right?"

A new service that lets college parents peek in on their kids' lives via surveillance cameras may be "moderately creepy," but that hasn't stopped California's University of the Redlands and Cornell, Pennsylvania State, and Towson universities from installing the live webcams around their campuses. A Penn State spokesman tells the Daily Pennsylvanian they've had 152,000 views since August. "I was a bit surprised," he says. "I didn't think it would be this popular."

Wining, dining, and housing are perks, but to get a big professor to come to Harvard, just one trick has proved a "showstopper": find her husband a job, too. Once the university decides on a recruit, university workers will call his or her spouse--and then "call anybody that has any relationship to anything the person does," a staff member tells the Crimson. The staff is successful a "good portion of the time."

Plagiarism and cheating happen a lot at California State University-Northridge, a survey by the Daily Sundial has found. But cheaters seem to be spread unevenly across departments. Business majors are the most likely to say they've cheated, while history majors were the least likely. Which could mean business majors are both the least honest and the most honest ... .

Plagiarism and cheating happen a lot at California State University-Northridge, a survey by the Daily Sundial has found. But cheaters seem to be spread unevenly across departments. Business majors are the most likely to say they've cheated, while history majors were the least likely. Which could mean business majors are both the least honest and the most honest....

• Sacramento State's controversy-plagued Multi-Cultural Center could move in a new direction after an off-site consultant makes recommendations next month, the State Hornet reports.
• An Indiana University student wore 160 T-shirts at once this month, breaking a world record, the Daily Student reports.
• A Washington University in St. Louis student's "war on laundry" could end in victory December 20 if he successfully goes an entire semester without doing laundry. How will you know whether he's won? "I'll be the guy taking the chemistry final completely naked," he writes.