MICHIGAN -- Administrators at Eastern Michigan University failed to meet federal safety standards after the body of 22-year-old Laura Dickinson was discovered in December 2006, the U.S. Department of Education found this week.
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George Mason University student government changing open-meetings policy
VIRGINIA --The George Mason University student government is changing the way it does business after editors at the student newspaper informed the body it was breaking state open-meetings laws.
Free-speech advocates see silver lining to Supreme Court decision
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Many of the nation's free-speech advocates are focusing on what they call the silver lining to Monday's U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Morse v. Frederick.
Student appeals libel case stemming from campus crime alert
RHODE ISLAND -- A former Johnson & Wales University student who sued the school for libel after it released a crime alert falsely identifying him as an attacker is appealing a district court's summary judgment in favor of the university.
Department of Education reviewing Eastern Michigan U. campus crime procedures
MICHIGAN -- The U.S. Department of Education is reviewing Eastern Michigan University after school administrators failed to alert the campus community that a woman had been murdered in her dormitory room.
Framingham State students pay for stolen newspapers
MASSACHUSETTS -- Framingham State College students who admitted to stealing between 800 and 1,000 copies of the student newspaper, The Gatepost, are reimbursing the paper, said Mari Megias, a university spokeswoman.
Georgia police department appealing open-records case to state supreme court
GEORGIA -- The Athens-Clarke County Police Department is asking the state supreme court to overturn a court of appeals decision that opened records of a 15-year-old murder investigation.
Media proposal on hold at U. of Utah as officials review plan to create oversight board
UTAH -- A media proposal to save the student-run radio station at the University of Utah has been put on hold after local newspapers reported that university officials were pressuring editors at the student newspaper to change online content.