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June 2009
- NCAA: Alabama Must Vacate 10 Football Wins From '05-07
  
  al.com (Ala.) | Jun 11, 09 12:35 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - The NCAA will require the University of Alabama to vacate at least 10 football victories from 2005-07 over rules violations that saw players arrange free textbooks for friends, the Birmingham News reports. The school will also be placed on 3 years’ probation, but the football program won’t lose any scholarships. Other UA programs received penalties that included vacating individual records. More »
May 2009
- Fla. Teacher Cops to Sex With Boy, 15; Mom Approves
  
  Miami Herald | May 27, 09 12:33 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - A teacher at a Florida private school has resigned and been charged with sexual battery of a child for allegedly carrying on an affair with a 15-year-old student, the Miami Herald reports. Maria Hernandez, 32, was arrested upon the pair's return from Disney World and admitted to sleeping with the boy, sometimes at his mother's place. The mom is under investigation for approving of the relationship. More »
- Top UK Poetry Prof Refuses to Step Down
  
  Guardian (UK) | 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 two journalists to a book called The Lecherous Professor , which detailed claims against Walcott, but denies sending anonymous letters to Oxford professors reminding them of the allegations. More »
- Falwell's Liberty U. Quashes Campus Dems
  
  Lynchburg News Advance | May 22, 09 4:15 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Jerry Falwell’s conservative Christian Liberty University has suspended the student Democratic Club for supporting candidates “directly contrary to the mission” of the school, the Lynchburg News Advance reports. Virginia Democrats are up in arms. “I urge the leadership of Liberty University to reverse this attack on the liberty of its students,” Gov.Tim Kaine said. A Democratic candidate called the move “deeply troubling.” More »
- School Censors Tween's Report on Harvey Milk
  
  San Diego Union-Tribune | May 21, 09 12:37 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - The ACLU is threatening to sue a California school district that restricted access to a 12-year-old’s report on gay-rights activist Harvey Milk, the San Diego Union-Tribune reports. When the school learned of the subject, it delayed the presentation and sent letters to parents requiring permission slips for their children to attend. The presentation, attended by half the sixth-grade class, occurred during lunch. More »
- Fla. Student Overexposed in HS Yearbook Photo
  
  WTSP | May 15, 09 1:35 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - A Tampa teen is skipping school for the rest of the year because of a supposedly revealing yearbook photo, WTSP reports. The girl, a junior, didn’t wear underwear the day of the picture because she was worried about visible panty lines—and when the yearbooks came out this week, the results showed. “I started crying, I was freaking out,” she said. “I was like, 'Oh my God,’” a classmate said. “But I think that she's probably like really horrified.” More »
- University of Illinois Nabs 21 Students in Drug Sting
  
  Chicago Tribune | May 2, 09 7:28 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - University of Illinois police arrested 21 students on drug charges this week and are looking for more, the Chicago Tribune reports. In seizing 180 grams of marijuana, some cocaine, anti-anxiety medication, and $3,100 in cash, campus cops aimed primarily to cut down on pot distribution. "We decided to go ahead ... and make a little bit of a splash," one officer told the News-Gazette . "This isn't necessarily over with." More »
April 2009
- Mass. Principal Under Fire for Touting Her Racy Novel
  
  Boston Globe | Apr 29, 09 1:31 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - A Boston-area grade school principal is on indefinite leave following complaints that she peddled her steamy romance novel on school grounds and reassigned a teacher who criticized her self-promoting ways, the Globe reports. Beth Gannon's self-published book, which follows an engaged woman who reconnects with a past lover, is "pretty racy stuff," said one school committee member. More »
- NH Frat Brands Pledges With Bayonet
  
  Concord (NH) Monitor | Apr 23, 09 11:51 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Two men face misdemeanor hazing charges for branding fraternity pledges at a New Hampshire college with a World War II bayonet, the Concord Monitor reports. Authorities began investigating the hazing after four students sought burn treatment at New England College's infirmary. Six of the seven pledges involved had 7-inch burn marks across their chests, and one had burns on his buttocks. More »
- Student Killed in Teacher's Love Triangle
  
  Associated Press | Apr 15, 09 7:44 AM CDT
  
  (AP) - An 18-year-old Arizona high school student caught with his 48-year-old math teacher in her bedroom was stabbed to death by her boyfriend, who is himself a former student of hers, police said yesterday. Sixto Balbuena, 20, a Navy sailor on leave, was arrested on a murder charge after police found him covered in blood. More »
- Defying Pols, Maryland Students to Screen Porno
  
  Baltimore Sun | Apr 6, 09 5:18 PM CDT
  
  (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 legislators threatened to cut school funding. Now students have scheduled their own on-campus showing. More »
March 2009
- School Strip-Search Case Heads to Supreme Court
  
  New York Times | Mar 24, 09 10:58 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - In 2003, staff at an Arizona middle school strip-searched Savana Redding, then 13, after getting a tip that she had prescription-strength ibuprofen. They didn't find any, and Redding sued. Next month, the Supreme Court will hear arguments on whether the school's policy violated Redding's constitutional rights, reports the New York Times . “It is a violation of any known principle of human dignity,” wrote a lower court judge, ruling against the school. More »
- Texas School Forced Teens Into Cage Fights
  
  Dallas Morning News | Mar 20, 09 2:59 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Employees at a Dallas high school forced troubled teens to settle their differences in bare-knuckle brawls inside a locker room cage while spectators cheered, says a report obtained by the Dallas Morning News . The principal of South Oak Cliff High at the time did nothing to stop the fights and even orchestrated some of them, the report states. None of the people involved has been criminally prosecuted, and several are still working at local schools. More »
- Pharma Infiltrates Harvard's Ivory Tower
  
  New York Times | Mar 3, 09 10:11 AM CST
  
  (Newser) - The tentacles of big pharma have made their way into the upper echelons of academia, the New York Times reports: Harvard Medical School is packed with professors with industry ties, and that has students concerned. With 149 profs connected to Pfizer and 130 to Merck, fears that the influence of industry money—Harvard recently received an “F” grade from a watchdog group—will slant teaching and research have prompted a movement for ethics reform. More »
February 2009
- Runaway Mass. Teacher, Student Found in W. Va. Hotel
  
  WWLP-TV | Feb 24, 09 12:45 PM CST
  
  (Newser) - Police today found the 8th-grade teacher who ran off with a 15-year-old student, WWLP-TV reports. Massachusetts police tracked a financial trail to find the pair at a hotel in West Virginia. They alerted the local cops, who arrested 24-year-old Lisa Lavoie this morning on charges of enticing a minor. She faces a hearing this afternoon. More »
- Sexting Is Naive—But Cops Calling It Child Porn Is Stupid
  
  Slate | Feb 17, 09 3:47 PM CST
  
  (Newser) - The recent—or recently discovered—“sexting” epidemic has produced a reasoned response from educators, and a wild overreaction from police,” Dahlia Lithwick writes on Slate. “Schools are enacting what amounts to a don't-ask-don't-tell policy” on teenagers sending out naked pictures of themselves, and others, she writes. But cops are hauling in high-schoolers on child pornography charges. “Cyber-humiliation shouldn't be grounds for a very real and possibly lifelong criminal record.” More »
- Coach Quits After Facebook Flirting With 14-Year-Old
  
  Atlanta Journal-Constitution | Feb 17, 09 2:53 PM CST
  
  (Newser) - An Atlanta gym teacher is the subject of a criminal probe following allegations that he sent “inappropriate messages” via Facebook to a 14-year-old female student, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports. The girl’s sister reportedly found the offending messages and told her mother, who contacted police. More »
- 'Real-Life Gossip Girl ' Heads to Bravo
  
  Broadcasting & Cable | Feb 13, 09 2:32 PM CST
  
  (Newser) - Bravo is making a reality show focused on New York private school students that insiders are calling a “real-life Gossip Girl ,” Broadcasting & Cable reports. The show will employ the format used in webisodes the network produced featuring kids from its hit The Real Housewives of Orange County . Many networks, including CBS and MTV, which pioneered the genre with Laguna Beach , have tried and failed to set a show in Gotham. More »
- More Students Get Fix From Study Drugs
  
  NPR | Feb 7, 09 2:20 AM CST
  
  (Newser) - Attention-deficit disorder drugs such as Adderall and Ritalin are gaining popularity on college campuses as an easy way for students to knuckle down, NPR reports. The drugs offer a “perfect kind of transition into a study mentality,” says one student, and can make work more pleasurable. But they’re “serious drugs with serious side effects,” like chronic insomnia and heart problems, cautions one researcher. More »
- Teen Bullied Peers for Sex via Facebook: Cops
  
  Milwaukee Journal Sentinel | Feb 5, 09 11:21 AM CST
  
  (Newser) - A Wisconsin teen has been arrested for allegedly using Facebook to sexually blackmail male students at his former high school. Anthony Stancl, 18, solicited naked photos of at least 31 boys by pretending to be female. He then forced at least seven, all underage, to perform sexual favors to keep the pictures from being distributed at school, reports the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel . More »