Tag: Crime: Page 30

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Students, Professors Rally to Support Student in Racial Attack

Faculty and students at the University of Massachusetts are rallying around a Black biology student who is facing attempted murder charges after police say a White man taunted him with racial epithets, broke his nose and smashed his dormitory window.

March 12, 2008

Latinx

Report Links Hate Crimes to Anti-immigrant Sentiment

Anti-immigrant sentiment is fueling nationwide increases in the number of hate groups and the number of hate crimes targeting Latinos, a watchdog group said Monday.

March 11, 2008

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Report Links Hate Crimes to Anti-immigrant Sentiment

Anti-immigrant sentiment is fueling nationwide increases in the number of hate groups and the number of hate crimes targeting Latinos, a watchdog group said Monday.

March 10, 2008

Students

Tragedy Strikes Two Campuses, Threatens One

An Auburn University student was found shot to death on a highway and the University of North Carolina student body president was found fatally shot on a Chapel Hill, N.C. street. Meanwhile, eight dorms at the University of California, Davis were evacuated Wednesday night and a student was arrested after explosives were found in a dorm room.

March 6, 2008

Students

4 Charged in Temple U. Beating Outside Jewish Fraternity

Four Temple University students face charges related to the beating of a man outside a Jewish fraternity on the Philadelphia campus, an attack police categorized as a hate crime.

March 2, 2008

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Diversity Bill Aims to Curb School Violence in California

California Assemblyman Mike Eng, D-Monterey Park, chairman of the Select Committee on Hate Crimes, has proposed a bill that would allocate up to $150,000 to establish a pilot diversity and sensitivity curriculum for select California school districts, according to a Los Angeles Times article.

February 21, 2008

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University of Kentucky Hires First Diversity Officer

Dr. Judy ‘J.J.’ Jackson, set to become the University of Kentucky’s first vice president for institutional diversity, has big plans for developing and implementing a diversity agenda that she says is essential for learning.

February 11, 2008

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University of Kentucky Hires First Diversity Officer

Dr. Judy ‘J.J.’ Jackson, set to become the University of Kentucky’s first vice president for institutional diversity, has big plans for developing and implementing a diversity agenda that she says is essential for learning.

February 10, 2008

Students

Student Kills 2, Self at La. College

BATON ROUGE La. A 23-year-old woman killed two fellow students with a .357 revolver in a classroom at a vocational college Friday, then committed suicide, police said. The women apparently were shot in their seats in the second-floor classroom at Louisiana Technical College, Baton Rouge Sgt. Don Kelly said. About 20 people were in the […]

February 9, 2008

Students

Public School Crime Down, But It’s Still More Dangerous For Black, Hispanic Children

The percentage of public schools experiencing incidents of crime was lower in 2005 than in 2003. In 2003, 65 percent of schools reported crimes to the police compared to 61 percent of schools in 2005, the latest year analyzed by the National Center for Education Statistics.

December 3, 2007

Faculty & Staff

Police: No Suspects, Leads in Columbia University Noose Case

NEW YORK Nearly two months after someone hung a noose on a Black Columbia University professor’s office door, police say they have no suspects in the apparent hate crime that shook the Ivy League campus.

December 1, 2007

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University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Announces $500,000 Campus Safety Initiative

MILWAUKEE The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee says it will start late-night walking patrols in the neighborhoods near the school, hire more officers and seek a review of its security procedures as part of a $500,000 campus safety initiative.

November 20, 2007