Chris Lim

Penn Student Arrested for Alleged Underwear Robbery
A student at the University of Pennsylvania was arrested last week for allegedly stealing women’s underwear, CBS3 Philadelphia reported.

Full pane glass windows at Emory University’s mathematics and science building, known for its eco-friendly design, created a “bird slaughterhouse,” the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported.

About 200 Yale students calling for more tolerance on campus rallied last week, the Yale Daily News reported.

Last week, homophobic and racial slurs were found written on walls at Yale University, causing concern among students and administrators.

After months of speculation and rumors, officials announced two weeks ago that New York University will open a full liberal-arts campus in Abu Dhabi, the capital of United Arab Emirates. Dubbed “NYU Abu Dhabi,” the campus will open in 2010 and will have up to 2,000 undergraduate and graduate students.

Students at the University of Missouri will soon have access to an online database to file complaints against their professors if they feel they have been treated unfairly because of their viewpoints, beliefs, or religion, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported.

An engineering student was arrested at the Boston airport two weeks ago when security officials thought she was carrying a bomb, the Boston Globe reported.

The Recorder, a student-run newspaper at Central Connecticut State University, is under attack for publishing what critics called a racist and sexist cartoon, the Associated Press reported.

Parents are suing Dartmouth after their daughter was killed in a physical education skiing class in early 2005. Christina Porter passed away due to head injuries sustained after crashing into a tree at the Dartmouth Skiway.

"SEAS kids can't get laid," says one.

"My friend told me people at Columbia make fun of Barnard girls," another says.

Anxious test-takers can now let out a huge sigh of relief. The Educational Testing Service recently announced that it would not implement the revised Graduate Record Examination in September, after five years and more than $12 million spent on research and development.

University of Pennsylvania officials reported last week that Kal Penn, famous for playing the hungry pothead Kumar in the movie Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle, will be teaching two undergraduate courses in the spring of 2008.

Last week's incidents involving the handcuffing of a black student by University of Pennsylvania police set off controversies among the campus minority groups, who claim that the student had been racially profiled.

Tensions over the controversial name of a student center at City College escalated last week as student activists attempting to restore a sign bearing the center's original name were met with opposition from the administration.

Harvard University named Drew Gilpin Faust as its first female and 28th president yesterday afternoon, ending a year-long search.

Since Harvard and Princeton Universities announced last fall that they would drop their early admissions programs due to their potentially adverse nature regarding disadvantaged students, pressure has fallen on other Ivy League schools to examine their own similar policies.

Penn Student Arrested in Shooting
A second-year law student at the University of Pennsylvania was arrested this week after firing shots into his neighbors' downstairs apartment, the Daily Pennsylvanian reported. The student attempted to enter the apartment of his neighbors, two male Drexel University students, when they did not answer their door.

The total number of applications for Yale University's class of 2011 dropped 9.7 percent from last year, the Yale Daily News reported.

A convicted sex felon has been enrolled, unsupervised, at the University of Pennsylvania as a full-time graduate student since September, the Philadelphia Inquirer reported last week.

The Daily Princetonian is under fire from student groups and activists after running an opinion editorial last week mocking Yale first-year Jian Li, an applicant who filed a civil rights complaint against Princeton University after being rejected, claiming discrimination against Asians.

Princeton University officials announced on Sunday that for the first time in 40 years, tuition will not increase for the next academic year, remaining steady at $33,000 per year.

The Minuteman Project sued a California community college and its former president for violation of First Amendment rights and the California Constitution, the Chronicle of Higher Education reported last week.

Controversy has swirled at the City College of New York since the December removal of a sign announcing the name of the school's student center, named for a fugitive and Puerto Rican separatist, a move that last week prompted a lawsuit.

The center was named after Guillermo Morales, a Puerto Rican separatist tied to city bombings in the 1970s, and Assata Shakur, who was convicted of felonies connected to the killing of a New Jersey state trooper.

A discussion at the Miller Theatre on Tuesday concerning human rights and slavery marked the last official event with former Czech President Vaclav Havel at Columbia.

Starting next spring, the Interschool Government Board will provide support and funding for student groups that previously have been outside of the jurisdictions of the Activities Board at Columbia and the Student Governing Board.

The new student governing board, whose constitution was approved by the Office of the Provost about two weeks ago, will be geared toward interdisciplinary and graduate organization at Columbia.

Approximately 52 percent of grades in Columbia College for the 2005-2006 school year were A-minuses or above compared to 47 percent in 2000.

When night falls on campus, creatures can often be seen scurrying about and hurriedly crossing campus walkways. Occasionally, the critters are hungry students looking to grab a bite, but often they're rats.

According to Daniel Feld, spokesman for Columbia University Facilities, there has been a increased number of rat sightings on campus.

The Columbia campus will have a new addition to its already large and diverse reading list this fall.

The Proxy, a new magazine, plans to offer 40 pages in full color featuring literature, poetry, opinion, and art relating to the African diaspora.

Keondra Prier, BC '08, launched the magazine hoping to give voice to African-related minorities.

This past spring, Nathan Walker, a student at Teachers College, lobbied for a bill in Washington D.C. that would reform the current government-funded financial aid programs.