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University of Arizona President Stands Against Gay-Marriage Ban
Tweet Share on Facebook October 5, 2006 CommentUntil yesterday, University of Arizona President Bill Shelton had not said anything publicly about a proposed gay-marriage ban, on the ballot this November. Yesterday, he said a lot, the Wildcat reports. "It would cripple this university's ability to compete," he argued, explaining that erasing domestic partner benefits for gay workers would hurt the school's "human capital."
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Mick Jagger Mocks Montana; Montana Mocks Back
Tweet Share on Facebook October 5, 2006 Comment"I went out and shot an elk this morning," Mick Jagger told University of Montana students last night, at a concert that sold 20,000 tickets. "Don't worry," he added, "I put it back." The concert brought an 85-foot, six-story stage to Montana's picturesque campus, angering one Kaimin columnist who worried the rock-and-roll wasn't worth the pollution and disruption. He joined a minority of anti-Stones Missoulans, including two who did not buy tickets and watched the concert from a nearby mountaintop instead.
"This sucks. It's worse than hearing them on the radio," one said. Then, reports the Kaimin, "as if on cue," the Rolling Stones struck the first notes of "You Can't Always Get What You Want."
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Penn Students Protest Lack of Protests With a Protest Against Protests
Tweet Share on Facebook October 5, 2006 Comment"Some people don't get [it]," said one of the protest's organizers. Apparently they don't belong to the Ironic Listserv, the E-mail list on which the idea--to protest apathy at the University of Pennsylvania by, well, protesting apathetically--was hatched. Marching students chanted "Down with activism!" and waved paper signs labeled "Make love, don't think" and "Don't waste paper." They did not really mean these things, the Daily Pennsylvanian explains.
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University of South Carolina Columnist Reveals What Women Really Want
Tweet Share on Facebook October 5, 2006 CommentFunny, smart, goal-oriented, she lists--and then takes it all back. In truth, admits the Daily Gamecock columnist, "women just want a man who wants them."
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At Washington University, All Alone on the Stem Cell Range
Tweet Share on Facebook October 5, 2006 CommentState laws don't prohibit stem cell research in Missouri--not yet at least--but a professor at Washington University in St. Louis is still the only researcher in Missouri who uses them, Student Life reports. Other researchers are apparently scared away by a potential ban in the future.
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Alleging Discrimination, Christian Group Sues Wisconsin Board of Regents
Tweet Share on Facebook October 5, 2006 CommentAfter the University of Wisconsin stopped recognizing InterVarsity Christian Fellowship as a student group last year, students protested. Now, they've filed a lawsuit, the Daily Cardinal reports. UW decided not to recognize the group when it learned leaders are required to sign religious pledges, but IVCF says that's not quite true and that the ban is neither fair nor legal.
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Trail Mix
Tweet Share on Facebook October 5, 2006 Comment- University of Florida students whose families were displaced by Hurricane Katrina are struggling to get financial aid--even the same amounts they always got, the Alligator reports.
- The job outlook is good for college grads, thanks to rising numbers of retirees, the Daily Kansan reports.
- A new University of Texas student agency will represent student veterans, who face unique concerns--like getting called out of school in the middle of the year to fight a war, the Daily Texan reports.
- Two women pleaded guilty to arson yesterday, dredging up a 2001 Earth Liberation Front attack that destroyed a University of Washington horticulture building, the Daily reports .
- Backup, backup, backup! A sob story from Stanford, where a senior whose laptop was stolen lost all her thesis research--and her thesis, the Daily reports.
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Trial Nears for Severed-Pig's-Head-on-Chancellor's-Car Incident
Tweet Share on Facebook October 4, 2006 CommentA 28-year-old Southern Illinois University senior will soon get his day in court after university police accused him of placing a dead pig's head on his chancellor's car, sticking an apple in its mouth, and attaching a sign reading: "Wendler, stop pigging out on tuition $$!!" The pig's head and sign were discovered on SIUC Chancellor Walter Wendler's Crown Victoria last May. Garth Kiser was arrested September 8 on charges of disorderly conduct and harassment. Kiser told the Daily Egyptian he believes police traced an E-mail advertising the protest to his computer, but he would not comment on whether he was involved in the incident.
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Harvard Tries to Be Historic Again
Tweet Share on Facebook October 4, 2006 CommentIn 1945, Harvard faculty issued a so-called Red Book plan to transform its curriculum and ended up transforming higher education. A new team of Harvard faculty wants to do the same thing, with a report they plan to release today that will call for mandatory study of religion and U.S. history, the Crimson reports. Their ambition might be warranted: After Harvard dropped early admissions last month, several other schools followed suit. But whether this move will incite the same reaction is far from clear--especially since this report still has yet to be approved.
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Southern Methodist Sororities Set Facebook Rules
Tweet Share on Facebook October 4, 2006 CommentAthletic directors aren't the only ones playing Big Brother. According to new guidelines issued by Southern Methodist University's Panhellenic Council, "It is an infraction to be friends with or write on [freshman girls'] Facebook wall." Sisters caught violating the rule, meant to make the rush process more fair, will receive perhaps the ultimate punishment: mandatory Facebook deactivation, with no reactivation until rush's conclusion, the Daily Campus reports. Panhell officers said they will be strict about enforcing the rule. Of course, there is a limit. "I can't physically make someone get off Facebook," the Panhell president admitted. Can't, that is, unless you get Mark Zuckerberg involved...
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