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Schools lose out at football Bowl Championship Series
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by Mac Cerullo 
University of Connecticut 

It was a milestone for the University of Connecticut football program: the Fiesta Bowl in Glendale, Arizona.

The 2011 Bowl Championship Series marked the first time the school had earned the Big East’s automatic bid to the compete in the series. And it meant the school would play Oklahoma, one of the nation’s most prestigious teams, in a nationally televised game on New Year's Day.

But the experience came at great cost. The team had to travel over 2,200 miles to the site of the game. Once there...

More details surface regarding on-campus rape
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by Christopher Whitten
University of Memphis

Several students say the man arrested for allegedly raping a University of Memphis woman in March was living in an on-campus apartment and masquerading as a student.

Demetrius Winters, freshman health and human performance major, said Cortney Cortez Adkins had been staying with him in the Thomas G. Carpenter Student Housing Complex off and on since February. Campus police arrested Adkins on March 26 after a student reported he had raped her.

Several students said they saw him on campus and at student events, where he...

Health services staff questioned in student complaints
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by Andrew Averill 
University of Wisconsin-Madison

Records show that 50 patients filed complaints against University Health Services at the University of Wisconsin-Madison between February 2011 and February 2012, an increase compared to last year’s numbers.

According to records obtained by The Badger Herald, the main grievances included professional attitude among staff and issues with scheduling appointments online.

The complaints increased from the 2010-2011 school year, when patients filed 33 formal complaints against UHS. The most common patient...

Voting rights for student trustees debated in Ohio legislature
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by Daniel Moore 
Kent State University 

This fall, Ohio public universities could allow voting by students serving on their boards of trustees.

Voting rights for student trustees would not be mandatory, however. Currently in Ohio, each 11-member public university board has two nonvoting students who also aren’t allowed in executive session.

As originally proposed, House Bill 377, introduced Nov. 15 by Reps. Mike Stinziano (D-Columbus) and Mike Duffey (R-Worthington), would have required all universities to grant full membership to student trustees...

Sex offender charged in campus rape
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by Christopher Whitten 
University of Memphis 

A registered sex offender who may have been living in a University of Memphis dormitory was arrested March 26 for allegedly raping a student on campus.

University police held 23-year-old Cortney Adkins, who has been a registered sex offender since 2010, on a $100,000 bond.

Memphis police said the alleged rape occurred within the Thomas G. Carpenter Student Housing Complex, apartment-style dorms adjacent to a university childcare facility and early childhood center.

The alleged rape was not...

Punishing (or not) squatters and residents who help them
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by Chelsea Boozer
University of Memphis 

A student who lives in Carpenter Complex at the University of Memphis typically pays about $3,000 for a room per semester, but some are getting the same lodging for free.

Since August 2011, three incidents of an unauthorized person using a vacant room in a residence hall have been documented on campus, according to Director of Residence Life Peter Groenendyk. Two of those took place in Carpenter Complex, the apartment-style housing on the north side of campus, across Central Avenue.

“The unauthorized use of an...

Athlete appeals suspension after arrest: analysis of Student-Athletes Conduct and the Criminal Justice System
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by Christopher Whitten
edited by Chelsea Boozer
The Daily Helmsman

Although University of Memphis football player Derek Howard was suspended after his arrest for assault in January, the defensive back never missed a scheduled team workout, practice or scrimmage. His appeal of the suspension, through a policy for athletes arrested for a crime, was granted.

“It is not about whether or not he was guilty, but rather is a process much more designed to decide what is in the best interest of The University and the student,” said University Counsel Sherri...