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Investigation of UVA fraternity rape case stalled despite confession

RICHMOND Va. More evidence is needed to prosecute two suspects in a 1984 sexual assault case even though a recovering alcoholic recently confessed to the crime as part of his 12-step program and promised to help investigators, the victim said Tuesday.

July 2, 2007

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University of Colorado-Denver Grad Student Was Slain: Officials

DENVER A 24-year-old female intern with the Colorado Geological Survey radioed for help before she went missing and a man found camping in the area was arrested after her body was found, officials said Wednesday.

June 27, 2007

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Trial in North Dakota Student’s Death Begins

MINOT N.D. Prosecutors opened the trial of a former jailer and campus security guard Wednesday by saying that DNA under the fingernails of the college student he is accused of killing proves he committed the crime.

June 27, 2007

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UC-Berkeley, Tulane Produce Damning Report on Uganda War Crimes

BERKELEY, Calif. A report released by the University of California, Berkeley, and Tulane University has found that as many as 38,000 children and 37,000 adults have been abducted by the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) since 1986. The rebel group has been accused of kidnapping tens of thousands of women and children to serve as soldiers, servants or sex slaves in northern Uganda.

June 24, 2007

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UA-Fort Smith establishes police department

FORT SMITH Ark. Growing student enrollment at the University of Arkansas at Fort Smith has prompted the former community college to add an armed police department.

June 24, 2007

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Morehouse, community work to free Womack: Phi Beta Kappa Nominee Accused of Plotting to Overthrow Government

ATLANTA The chairman of the Morehouse College History Department is spearheading an effort to disentangle a former honor student of his from legal problems that have kept him behind bars since his arrest last December.

June 23, 2007

Faculty & Staff

Reporters, curators, security chiefs … faculty aren’t the only ones with careers at universities

Universities and colleges may have had to streamline their employment rolls in recent years, but they still employ more than two-and-a-half million people — and by far most of them are not faculty members.

June 22, 2007

Latinx

Spending bill would freeze funds for HBCUs – historically Black colleges and universities

Historically Black colleges and universities would receive the same amount of federal funding in 1997 that they received this year under legislation proposed by Republicans in the House of Representatives.

June 19, 2007

Latinx

Beyond brutality – scholars say repeated beatings born in hate and police culture

After an 80-mile chase, the blows to the body began almost immediately. The Riverside, CA, sheriffs repeatedly beat a defenseless Mexican citizen on the side of a freeway in Los Angeles County. The blows continued even after the man was down. Then, the same officer turned his riot stick on a woman passenger. She was dragged from the truck.

June 17, 2007

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Values: upside down you are turning me – Column

What are values, and who ought to teach them? This question may turn into the centerpiece of the 1996 presidential election. Certainly the term “values” is thrown around like a misplaced trump card in a bad bid whist game — used arrogantly, mistakenly, in poor taste and at the wrong time.

June 15, 2007

Students

New Facts, Still Mind-boggling

BALTIMORE CITY, Md. After first lying to police that they were shot in a gas station robbery, and then claiming to invite a gun wound in an attempt to avoid a fraternity initiation, one shooting victim has confessed the true reason why he asked a Morgan State University student to shoot him — to avoid National Guard duty in Iraq.

May 24, 2007

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Professor Had Expelled Gunman From Class

Nearly two years ago, Nikki Giovanni had stood up to Cho Seung-Hui before he drenched the Virginia Tech campus in blood.

April 18, 2007