Archive for ‘January, 2006’

Study finds two-thirds of students sexually harassed

Nearly one out of four college students across the country have been touched or grabbed without their consent, or have had someone intentionally brush up against them in a sexual way on campus, according to a national survey released by the American Association of University Women.

Mass. commercial schools linked to several fraud cases

State officials say that as many as 200 commercial, or proprietary, schools across the state have been linked to cases of fraud and other grievances, which have caused the Department of Education to shut down seven schools over the past three years. Proprietary schools, or those degree and non-degree granting institutions whose primary business goals are to accumulate profit, have been investigated following instances of questionable financial practices and outright fraud at institutions in states such as New York and California.

Major budget cuts affect science funding

Boston University faculty members may soon feel the effects of substantial funding cuts approved by Congress to grants used by Medical Campus researchers, a situation that may also raise concern for members of the scientific community at the Charles River campus.

State representatives, ACLU condemn Bush Administration’s domestic spying

Rep. Edward Markey (D-Mass.) said George Bush’s 2006 is quickly “transforming into George Orwell’s 1984″ — a novel about a totalitarian government that monitored their citizens at all times — in his speech at Fanueil Hall where the American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts organized an “Emergency Town Meeting” to oppose the Bush Administration’s program on domestic spying.

BU athletes at top

Boston University varsity athletes scored 16 percent higher than the national average for graduation success rate, or GSR, according to the National Collegiate Athletic Association. BU had a 92 percent GSR with a 100 percent GSR for 14 of its varsity sports.