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Nine Animals Died in Harvard-Affiliated Laboratories
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by Nathalie Miraval
Harvard College 

Two sisters, one in pink and one in purple, held a sign twice their size as cars passed by in Harvard Square. The poster showed two monkeys in a cage, holding each other tight, and a slogan demanding an end to animal testing.

“This is what they do to animals in laboratories,” their mother explained to the girls.

The family was participating in a protest against Harvard laboratories on Sunday. Other protesters held similar signs in Southborough, where Harvard Medical School’s New...

Still no reason given for Saffari's dismissal [Part One of an ongoing investigation]
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by Molly Willms
St. Cloud State University

More than three months after the dismissal of Mahmoud Saffari, the St. Cloud University administration has been able to provide the University Chronicle with a who, what, where, when and even a how to help explain the dismissal of Mahmoud Saffari. The area that remains fuzzy is the why.

Associate Vice President of Enrollment Management Mahmoud Saffari was dismissed from his employment at SCSU in September of 2011.

"We have an official reason. The official reason was that he is an administrator under the...

Football: An empty rule
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by Teddy Cahill
edited in part by Sarah Boswell
Ball State University 



The sun shone brightly on the unseasonably warm fall afternoon. If it weren't for the leaves' changing colors, the day could have been plucked out of June, not October. On what might have been the last nice Saturday for months in Muncie, surely there would be plenty of fans in Scheumann Stadium to cheer on Ball State against Central Michigan. The Cardinals had a winning record and were in the hunt for a conference championship and a bowl game.


Yet hours after Ball State...

Ball State police receive few complaints based on number of service calls
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by Sarah Boswell 
Ball State University 

About once a month, somebody is upset enough about the campus police to file a formal complaint. Usually it's a claim that one of the cops was copping an attitude.

"That's probably the largest complaint we've had — ‘I don't like his attitude,' or something like that," said Gene Burton, director of public safety and chief of Ball State University Police Department.A Daily News review of documents from the department shows UPD received 47 complaints in the past four years...

Inside the budget: Tiger football costs University of Memphis millions each year
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by Chelsea Boozer
University of Memphis

For the past three years, The University of Memphis' football team has lost more money than any other sport.  

In the 2010-2011 academic year, the football team accumulated about $4.6 million in losses. That same year, the basketball team earned about $1.3 million in excess of their expenses.

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Student complaint escalated: Complaint against one professor spawns complicated case
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by Victoria Edward, Jayme Fraser and Heidi Grover
University of Montana-Missoula

This two-part series is the fruit of three months of reporting to explore a string of University court cases involving three professors and a graduate student. Complications with UM protocol for evaluating discrimination, threats to campus safety and allegations of misconduct are also addressed.

At the University of Montana, a student complaint against a professor and concerns from that professor and others about the student's behavior have...

Pay for retired CSU professors seen as 'double dip'
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by Timothy Sandoval
California State University-Sacramento
Students at CSU-Fullerton walk past a university building on a sunny day.

Retirement has been good for Cal State Fullerton Professor Jesa Kreiner.

As a full-time professor of mechanical engineering in 2008-09, Kreiner made $106,000 for teaching eight courses. Last year, after retiring, he made $146,600 – for teaching four...