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Trail Mix
Tweet Share on Facebook December 15, 2006 Comment- 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.
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No Duke Lacrosse DNA Found on Alleged Victim
Tweet Share on Facebook December 14, 2006 Comment (17)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.
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Rutgers Student Government Accused of Tuning Out Diversity
Tweet Share on Facebook December 14, 2006 CommentDespite 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.
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Frat Wants Help Teaching Cultural Sensitivity to Its Chapters
Tweet Share on Facebook December 14, 2006 Comment (15)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.
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BU Student: "I Had to Kill to Get Here"
Tweet Share on Facebook December 14, 2006 Comment (11)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."
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Trail Mix
Tweet Share on Facebook December 14, 2006 Comment- 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.
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Eleven More Students Face Charges in Penn State Hit and Run
Tweet Share on Facebook December 13, 2006 CommentPolice have already targeted the former student who allegedly drove her car into a Penn State freshman and then fled the scene December 2, leaving the victim critically injured. Now 11 more students, who police say furnished the victim with alcohol the night of the accident, could face misdemeanor charges. The glut of booze that night has made blame hard to place, police say. The driver's lawyer claims she would have hit the freshman--who witnesses say stumbled into traffic after attending several parties--even if her blood alcohol content was not .208. But an assistant district attorney told the Collegian that "while he does not condone underage drinking, he finds it hard to fault [the victim], who chose not to drive." The kids who allegedly gave him booze, though--apparently they are another story.
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Michigan State President Gets Salary Hike...for Donating Prior Hike
Tweet Share on Facebook December 13, 2006 CommentMichigan State University's board of trustees has given President Lou Anna K. Simon a salary hike. Their reasoning? She works hard, she produces results--and she has a history of giving her salary hikes back to the university. Simon sent a January pay boost of $85,000 right back to MSU's coffers, the State News reports. And the Board of Trustees took note: "The high philanthropic standard she and [husband] Roy have set has been crucial to the success of our capital campaign," the board chairman told the Lansing State Journal. "They lead by example." Simon thanked the board but did not say where this $70,000 raise will go.
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While You Study, Northwestern Students Enjoy 'Spring Break on Ice'
Tweet Share on Facebook December 13, 2006 Comment (19)One in every eight Northwestern University undergraduates is currently having way more fun than you. Nine hundred and forty students are now on the tail end of what the Daily Northwestern called the largest organized ski trip in the country, thanks to an academic schedule that lets them out of class a week before the usual start of Christmas break. "We get to go out and ski instead of laying around at home for a week," boasted one student organizer. "It's like spring break on ice."
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Harvard Group Backs Out of Religion Requirement
Tweet Share on Facebook December 13, 2006 CommentA Harvard group charged with remaking the curriculum has decided not to ask all students to study religion after all. Instead, the task force will recommend students take a class on "what it means to be a human being." At a faculty meeting, "only one speaker . . . lamented the [religion] requirement's demise," the Crimson reports. The Rev. Peter J. Gomes says the committee had succumbed to fears "of Jesuits under beds and priests in every corner." Maybe everyone else was too busy trying to figure out "what it means to be a human being." Or maybe that's just us?