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University of Texas Regents: Campus Publications Still Need Review
Tweet Share on Facebook November 14, 2006 CommentAfter a year of thinking about it, the University of Texas System Board of Regents appears to have decided to keep a policy called "prior review," which requires that a university-approved adviser review student publications before they're published. The decision surprised many students; they'd thought a new plan meant to scrap the policy, which the Student Press Law Center says is one of the last of its kind not to be scrapped. Specifics about the plan will be discussed tomorrow in a Regents executive session, the Daily Texan reports.
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Ruckus Causes a Commotion
Tweet Share on Facebook November 14, 2006 CommentThe free-music service Ruckus is launching at more colleges. Multiple University of North Carolina campuses just decided to implement the service, following on the heels of Arkansas State and Indiana universities. And the University of Florida just created a committee to review its options. What Florida will decide is hardly clear. The digital music service has been hailed by some. But not everyone agrees. "Ruckus Suckus," wrote an Indiana University student, pointing out that the songs are not convertible to iPod format and that students' right to listen to them disappears upon graduation.
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Trail Mix
Tweet Share on Facebook November 14, 2006 Comment (13)- At the University of Washington, sorority members are not allowed to cook or clean for themselves--so they pay "houseboys" to do it for them, the Daily Evergreen reports.
- A U.S. State Department program meant to build ties between American and Middle Eastern universities is bearing fruit at the University of Tennessee, whose communications department just hosted representatives from three Middle Eastern schools interested in improving their own journalism programs, the Daily Beacon reports.
- A battle to defend its gun ban has cost the University of Utah a lot of money--and some students aren't happy about that, says the Daily Utah Chronicle.
- At the University of Minnesota, students are trying to create a major in nonprofit organizations, the MN Daily reports.
- Scientists at the University of California-Berkeley have developed a low-cost stove to help impoverished Darfur refugees, the Daily Cal reports.