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From Kobe Bryant to Campus Rape

From Kobe Bryant to Campus RapeNobody knows what happened between L.A. Lakers’ Kobe Bryant and his Colorado accuser, but everybody with half of an opinion knows that public attention around this case is not just about what happened between the two of them. To be sure, Bryant was a $45 million “good guy” athlete whose […]

May 5, 2004

The Best-Kept Secret: Crime on Campus

The Best-Kept Secret: Crime on CampusIn Indiana, a Ball State University student’s lifeless, bullet-riddled body is discovered at dawn, wedged between the seats of his car. A 19-year-old Iowa student is stabbed to death in plain sight in a campus-dining hall at the Maharishi University. A Fort Hays college freshman is savagely beaten just off […]

May 5, 2004

Students Use Internet To Help With Laundry

Students Use Internet To Help With Laundry PITTSBURGHThrough May 15, Carnegie Mellon University is piloting eSuds, a Web-based laundry system, in three residence halls. If all goes well with the pilot, the system will be installed campuswide this August, just in time for the 2004-05 school year. eSuds, which was developed by USA Technologies Inc., […]

April 21, 2004

Louisville President Increasing Security After Klan Activity on Campus

Louisville President Increasing Security After Klan Activity on Campus LOUISVILLE, Ky.University of Louisville President James Ramsey told a closed-door campus meeting earlier this month about efforts to increase safety in the wake of Ku Klux Klan flier distributions. While Ramsey admitted he does not want the Klan on campus, he said his understanding of the […]

March 24, 2004

A Year in Review: Legal/ Political Matters

Legal/ Political MattersThe University of California Board of Regents rejected fellow regent Ward Connerly’s initiative to outlaw the collection of racial data, in a 15-3 vote with one abstention, making it only the 10th time in 25 years that the university had gone on record on a state ballot measure. California residents also voted against […]

December 17, 2003

National Strategy Needed to Combat Identity Fraud, Researchers Say

National Strategy Needed to Combat Identity Fraud, Researchers SayUTICA, N.Y.Researchers at the Economic Crime Institute of Utica College and LexisNexis, a global leader in information services for legal, business and government professionals, have called for a new national strategy in the fight against identity fraud. Details of the plan were discussed in remarks delivered last […]

December 17, 2003

Harvard Student Newspaper Sues University for Campus Records

Harvard Student Newspaper Sues University for Campus RecordsBy Shilpa Banerji CAMBRIDGE, Mass.Harvard University’s student newspaper, The Harvard Crimson, filed a lawsuit against the university late last month to gain access to campus police records regarding various incidents. The lawsuit, filed with the help of the American Civil Liberties Union, claims that since Harvard police officers […]

August 27, 2003

220 Students Lose Dorm Access for File Sharing

220 Students Lose Dorm Access for File SharingSTATE COLLEGE, Pa.Penn State students can’t say they weren’t warned. Three weeks after an administrator sent an e-mail warning against sharing copyrighted material over the Internet, 220 students were sanctioned for doing just that, the university said last month.“Basically, we received a complaint,” says Penn State spokesman Tysen […]

May 21, 2003

UVA Student Victim Of Campus Hate Crime

UVA Student Victim Of Campus Hate Crime CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va.The mood for University of Virginia students returning from Spring Break is likely to be somber as they attempt to grapple with the fallout from the latest of a string of divisive racial incidents: an assault on a minority student running for student council that left her […]

March 26, 2003

Study Examines Role of Stereotypes In Identifying Criminal Suspects

Study Examines Role of Stereotypes In Identifying Criminal Suspects UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa.Research by a Penn State media studies expert reveals that memory of crime stories with the suspects’ pictures reflects racial stereotypes, and African Americans are especially likely to be mistakenly identified for perpetrators of violent crimes, an issue being discussed nationally by community and […]

January 29, 2003

Morehouse President Vows To Talk to Students on Gay Issues

Morehouse President Vows To Talk to Students on Gay Issues ATLANTAAn attack on a student last month at Morehouse College led to talk around the campus about homophobia and a call from a national organization for the school to address the issue publicly. Sophomore Aaron Price was charged with aggravated assault for the baseball bat […]

December 4, 2002

Charlottesville Students Escape Hate Crimes Charges

Charlottesville Students Escape Hate Crimes ChargesCHARLOTTESVILLE, Va.Nine Charlottesville High School students charged in a string of assaults on University of Virginia students have escaped hate crimes charges, according to a ruling by the commonwealth’s attorney Dave Chapman (see Black Issues, March 28). Chapman decided after several weeks of investigation and deliberation that there was no […]

April 24, 2002

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