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 Yale Professor Quizzed 
 Over Missing Student 

One of Annie Le's professors abruptly canceled class around the time she vanished

Sep 12, 09 8:12 AM CDT
(Newser) - A Yale professor has been interviewed by police over the disappearance of graduate student Annie Marie Le, New York Daily News reports. Le was due to attend the professor's class on Tuesday but it was abruptly canceled and Le was found to be missing hours later. The cancellation so close... More »

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New Haven • professor • missing person • graduate student • Annie Marie Le • Annie Le

Spitzer Wows Students in First Law Class

But reporter finds lecture disappointingly free of sex, hookers

Sep 9, 09 10:39 AM CDT
(Newser) - The press was barred from Eliot Spitzer’s first lecture at City College of New York yesterday, but that didn’t stop one enterprising Daily News reporter from sneaking in. If he was expecting pearls of wisdom on Emperors’ Club hookers, he was disappointed. The disgraced governor began by... More »

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Eliot Spitzer • professor • City College of New York

(Newser) - About a hundred professors across Germany are under investigation for allegedly accepting bribes for doctoral degrees, the Local reports. Prosecutors say professors may have taken bribes as high as $28,000 through an intermediary firm to give PhDs to undeserving students. "It involves teaching professors from all subjects, from... More »

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Germany • bribery • bribe • PhD • professor

(Newser) - Another black member of Harvard's faculty has accused the Cambridge Police Department of racism, the Boston Globe reports. S. Allen Counter, a Harvard Medical School professor, was arrested outside his home in 2006 on assault and battery charges. “I was polite, and yet police lied and said I was... More »

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Harvard Medical School • African Americans • racism • professor • police department • Harvard University • Henry Louis Gates Jr • Cambridge, Mass. • S. Allen Counter

 Cops Release 
 Gates Arrest Tapes 

Officer calls for more cars; 911 caller unsure on men's race

Jul 27, 09 1:00 PM CDT
(Newser) - In audio from the arrest of Henry Louis Gates Jr, released today by Cambridge police, the arresting officer tells the dispatcher to “keep the cars coming” as he faces an “uncooperative” suspect, the Boston Herald reports. An earlier tape reveals the 911 call in the case, in which... More »

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race • police • 911 call • arrest • professor • tape • Harvard • racial profiling • Henry Louis Gates Jr • Cambridge, Mass. • James Crowley • Lucia Whalen

OPINION



 Gates Arrest a  
 'Battle of Egos' 

Don't confuse it with poor blacks' struggle against racism, classism

Jul 23, 09 8:58 AM CDT
(Newser) - Racial profiling may have played a role in the arrest of Henry Louis Gates Jr., but fellow black scholar Boyce Watkins says there's no reason to feel sorry for Gates. At heart, the scene was likely “a battle of two egos,” Watkins writes in the Grio. “What... More »

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racism • arrest • professor • racial profiling • class • Harvard University • Henry Louis Gates Jr • Cambridge, Mass.

(Newser) - An SMU dean has a message for his fellow college professors: Ditch the PowerPoint. Jose A. Bowen isn't anti-technology, explains the Chronicle of Higher Education, he just thinks too many instructors rely on it as a crutch. He's challenging others to "teach naked," without computers in the classroom,... More »

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technology • higher education • learning • college • professor • classroom • PowerPoint • Jose A. Bowen

(Newser) - It took a while, but Alberto Gonzales has a job again. Nearly two years after resigning as George Bush's attorney general, Gonzales has been hired by Texas Tech to teach a course this fall, reports the Austin American-Statesman. Gonzales will be a visiting professor in the political science department and... More »

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Alberto Gonzales • professor • attorney general • George W. Bush • Texas Tech

 Iran Arrests 70 Profs 
 Who Met With Mousavi 

Crackdown intensifies as opposition calls off rally

Jun 25, 09 6:38 AM CDT
(Newser) - Iranian authorities arrested 70 university professors yesterday, after they met with Mir Hossein Mousavi, according to a dissident website, as the regime intensified its crackdown on demonstrators. The professors' whereabouts are now unknown, but hundreds of activists are now being held in a prison system notorious for torture and human... More »

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Iran • Tehran • Mahmoud Ahmadinejad • professor • dissidents • Ayatollah Ali Khamenei • Iranian election • Mir Hossein Mousavi • Iranian protests

(Newser) - A Stanford computer science professor who mentored Google's founders has drowned in his swimming pool, the San Jose Mercury News reports. Rajeev Motwani, 47, who could not swim, drowned at his Atherton, Calif., home, leaving a wife, two daughters, and many admirers in Silicon Valley. “It's a rare combination... More »

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Google • Stanford • Sergey Brin • India • death • drowning • data mining • professor

Oxford Poetry Prof Resigns

First female to nab top post reverses earlier decision amid smear campaign accusations

May 25, 09 7:17 PM CDT
(Newser) - The first woman to hold one of the UK’s top poetry posts has reversed direction and announced her resignation amid accusations that she ran a smear campaign against a rival, the Telegraph reports. Ruth Padel stepped down as the Oxford Professor of Poetry today but maintained she acted in... More »

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sexual harassment • Oxford University • poetry • professor • Ruth Padel • Derek Walcott

Top UK Poetry Prof Refuses
to Step Down

Oxford academic in brouhaha over sex allegation against rival

May 24, 09 5:00 PM CDT
(Newser) - The first woman to hold Britain's highest academic post in poetry refuses to resign despite an uproar over whether she ran a dirty election campaign, reviving decades-old sexual harassment claims against her main rival, Nobel laureate Derek Walcott, the Guardian reports. Oxford Professor of Poetry-elect Ruth Padel admits she pointed... More »

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sexual harassment • Oxford University • poetry • professor • election

 Spooky Universal Pattern 
 Captivates Math Experts 

Academics ponder similarities between cities and organisms

May 20, 09 5:53 AM CDT
(Newser) - A fascinating mathematical similarity between infrastructure requirements of cities and the nutritional needs of different-sized animals has energized a field of study that is enthralling academics. Researchers have discovered that any measure of a city's infrastructure—from number of gas stations to miles of roadway—grows only in proportion to... More »

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microorganisms • professor • academics • mathematics • pattern recognition • city • animal • mathematicians • urban development • math

OPINION

 Dowd: GOP 
 Has Short 
 Memory 

'Quaint' calls for balance follow reign of 'Boy Emperor'

May 3, 09 10:57 AM CDT
(Newser) - As their party contracts with the defection of Arlen Specter, the GOP is complaining about a disappearing balance of power: “How quaint,” writes Maureen Dowd in the New York Times—this from the party whose “arrogant” previous administration “did its best to undermine checks and balances.... More »

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Bush administration • torture • Condoleezza Rice • Arlen Specter • Constitution • Maureen Dowd • professor • waterboarding • George W. Bush • President Obama • balance of power

Prof's Nazi-Israeli Comparison Stirs Uproar

Students, faculty defend instructor amid anti-Semitism charges

Apr 30, 09 6:24 AM CDT
(Newser) - A UC Santa Barbara professor's decision to send his students an email comparing graphic photographs of the Holocaust's Jewish victims to similar shots taken of Palestinians during the recent offensive in Gaza has caused an uproar. Many students and faculty members have expressed support for the professor, who is Jewish,... More »

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Israel • Gaza • Holocaust • professor • Arab Israeli conflict • anti-Semitism • Israeli Army • Nazis • UC Santa Barbara • academic freedom • Anti-Defamation League • Gaza war

Prof Wanted in
Triple Murder
Branded 'Weird'

Suspected killer likely getting desperate
hiding out: cops

Apr 27, 09 4:44 AM CDT
(Newser) - The University of Georgia professor wanted for the triple murder of his wife and two other adults is still hiding out and likely in a state of "desperation," police tell the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. A nationwide manhunt is on for marketing prof George Zinkhan, who eyewitnesses say shot his... More »

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murder • University of Georgia • professor • Wanted • manhunt • George Zinkhan

(AP) - Authorities were on a nationwide manhunt for a University of Georgia professor suspected in the shooting deaths of three people, including his ex-wife, at a community theater near campus today. Police were searching for 57-year-old George Zinkhan, who has been a marketing professor at the university in Athens since the... More »

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crime • Georgia • Athens • professor • shooting

 Fired 'Noose' Prof 
 Sues Columbia for $200M 

Plagiarism allegation was 'cooked up,' lawyer says

Apr 23, 09 11:12 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Columbia University professor fired for plagiarism shortly after a noose was found hanging on her office door is suing her former school for $200 million. Madonna Constantine’s reputation was ruined by the “baseless” allegation, her lawyer tells CNN. The black professor has previously charged that the noose... More »

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Columbia University • plagiarism • professor • noose • civil lawsuits • Madonna Constantine • Teachers College • firing

(Newser) - Two people died today in a murder-suicide at a Michigan college campus, the Detroit News reports. Police responding to a call about an assault with shots fired entered the fine arts building at Henry Ford Community College, only to hear another shot ring out. A man, identified as the aggressor,... More »

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murder-suicide • professor • Dearborn, Michigan • gun violence • students • college campus • Henry Ford Community College

(Newser) - University of Maryland students plan to take in some porn tonight after a heated battle with school officials and state lawmakers, the Baltimore Sun reports. The school slated a screening of Pirates II: Stagnetti’s Revenge—which recently showed at a University of California campus—last week, until... More »

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University of Maryland • pornography • ACLU • college • Baltimore • professor • state legislature • porn star

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