In a reversal of longstanding trends, young adults with college degrees were more likely to have married than their less-educated peers, according to an analysis of 2008 U.S. Census data by the Pew Research Center. Among college-educated 30-year-olds, 62 percent had been married compared with 60 percent of those without diplomas. The economic downturn, which has taken a greater toll on less-educated Americans, and a rise in cohabitation are among the factors responsible for the shift, the Associated Press reported. In addition, those with less education were slightly more likely to divorce, the Pew analysis found.

Chris Armstrong, the openly gay president of the University of Michigan Student Assembly, offered an oblique response Monday night to an inflammatory blog, Chris Armstrong Watch, that for the past five months has accused him of using his office to further a "radical homosexual agenda" at the state's flagship campus. Andrew Shirvell, a Michigan assistant attorney general who is the blog's author, has called Mr. Armstrong "Satan's representative on the student assembly" and attacked him for promoting gender-neutral student housing on the campus. Mike Cox, Michigan's attorney general, recently chastised Mr. Shirvell, a Michigan alumnus, for his "immaturity and lack of judgment" but has not otherwise commented on the issue. 

President Drew Gilpin Faust said on Monday that Harvard University would end its decades-long campus ban on ROTC when the Pentagon ends its own ban on openly gay and lesbian military personnel. She made her comments to editors and reporters from The Boston Globe as the U.S. Senate declined to consider repealing the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy. Harvard expelled the Reserve Officer Training Corps in 1969, during the Vietnam War. President Faust said the ROTC ban remained because Harvard forbids discrimination against any group. Harvard students who wish to participate in ROTC must do so through an arrangement with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

A former administrator at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor has been charged with using university money to buy 75 computers and then reselling them for his own profit, Ann Arbor.com reported. Donald Lewis Sims Jr., a former business administrator at the university's Center for AfroAmerican and African Studies, resigned in March and was charged in June after a university audit uncovered financial discrepancies that allegedly occurred between January 2008 and February 2010. Mr. Sims is to appear before a judge today in Ann Arbor on the computer charge and an accusation that he made $14,000 in fraudulent purposes on a university credit card. His son and several others are also charged with stealing and reselling computers from Detroit Public Schools. 

Karen Himle, vice president for university relations at the University of Minnesota, has canceled the October 3 premiere of Troubled Waters, a documentary about the Mississippi River that looks at pollution from farm chemicals and other sources, the Star Tribune reported. The film was produced under contract with the university's Bell Museum of Natural History. Daniel Wolter, the university's news-service director, told the Star Tribune that, after previewing the documentary, university officials and faculty members had questioned whether it was "factually accurate, objective, and balanced in its presentation." He said the premiere was being delayed "for proper scientific and institutional review." But Brian DeVore, a spokesman for a nonprofit sustainable-agriculture group, Land Stewardship Project, asked why the university's public-relations arm was making decisions about scientific...

In a letter to students, the president of James Madison University announced plans to step up enforcement of laws against underage drinking and public intoxication as part of a broader effort to "transform the JMU alcohol culture," the Richmond Times-Dispatch reported. The letter, which notes that nearly half of James Madison students have reported alcohol-induced blackouts, makes reference to an off-campus Springfest party in April that attracted 8,000 people and resulted in 30 arrests. Meanwhile, the Winston-Salem Journal reported that Wake Forest University will begin notifying parents when their children violate campus alcohol rules. The new policy is part of a larger plan to curb binge drinking in the wake of an off-campus party in January that sent six students to emergency rooms to be treated for alcohol poisoning.

Oregon environmental regulators have fined Lewis and Clark College nearly $78,000 for discharging chlorinated water once a week from an indoor pool into a nearby creek via the campus stormwater system, The Oregonian reported. The discharges have been going on since 1969, when the Zehntbauer Swimming Pavilion opened, and tests last October showed chlorine levels in the creek to be "60 times the amount considered acutely toxic to aquatic organisms," the newspaper reported. College officials said in a statement they were surprised to learn that draining the pool violated clean-water standards. They immediately halted the discharges and began installing piping to drain the water into the sanitary sewer. 

Several companies with business before Congress have partially financed university endowments honoring nearly a dozen current and former federal lawmakers, creating potential conflicts of interest, The New York Times reported. The conflicts are similar to the one that U.S. Rep. Charles B. Rangel, Democrat of New York, has been accused of in an ethics complaint. However The Times reported that "none of the dozen lawmakers appear to have linked their office to the endowments as closely as Mr. Rangel ... is accused of doing."

A security guard at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Mass., says that a professor from the Johns Hopkins University pushed her and left marks on her arm when she tried to break up a party at the lab early Sunday morning, The Boston Globe reported. Noah J. Cowan, an associate professor of mechanical engineering and director of the Johns Hopkins Laboratory for Computational Sensing and Robotics, was arrested on Monday morning when he returned to the Woods Hole lab to retrieve his car. He pleaded not guilty to a charge of assault and battery on a person over 60. His lawyer, William Sullivan, said that a group of students had an administrator's permission to drink in a break room, but that security guards had not been informed. Mr. Sullivan termed the incident a "misunderstanding."

Eighty-seven percent of Hispanic Americans value higher education as being extremely or very important, compared with 78 percent of all Americans, a new poll shows. Yet only 13 percent of Latinos have at least a bachelor's degree, compared with 30 percent of the U.S. population. The Associated Press-Univision poll, co-sponsored by the Nielsen Company and Stanford University, also found that 94 percent of Latinos expect their children to attend college. The poll suggested several causes for the discrepancy between aspiration and achievement: lack of money and a reluctance to borrow it, familial obligations, and tepid support from parents and teachers. The poll, of 1,521 Hispanics, was conducted from March 11 to June 3, and had a sampling margin of error of plus or minus 3.5 percentage points.