A drunken riot adjacent to the University of Oregon campus last night -- the Friday before the start of fall classes -- drew some 50 police officers, who used tear gas to disperse a crowd of 400, according to reports by the Associated Press, The Oregonian, and KATU.com, which has video of the scene. The police, from four different agencies, arrested at least two and possibly as many as nine people (counts varied), including students and a man described by the police as a "transient." The university's president, Richard W. Lariviere, said in a written statement that the riot "deeply disappointed" him, the AP reported.

Two college employees were among those swept up on Friday by FBI raids in Chicago that were part of investigations into alleged ties between antiwar activists in the United States and terrorist groups in the Middle East and South America. According to the Chicago Tribune, federal agents raided a number of homes in Chicago and Minneapolis to execute search warrants. No one was arrested, but several people received summons to appear before grand juries. The subjects of the raids -- including Stephanie Weiner, an adult-education instructor at Wilbur Wright College, and Joseph Iosbaker, assistant to the associate chancellor for sustainability at the University of Illinois at Chicago -- did not deny they had been active in antiwar causes but said there was nothing illegal about that. One called the searches "an outrageous fishing expedition."

Lawrence H. Summers, who has played a leading role in President Obama's economic policies for nearly two years as director of the National Economic Council, is returning to Harvard, the White House announced this afternoon. Mr. Summers, one of the youngest professors ever to win tenure at Harvard, shook up the university as its president but then stepped down in 2006 after antagonizing some parts of the faculty with his leadership style and, in particular, his comments about women's intrinsic abilities in the sciences. In a statement quoted by the White House, Mr. Summers said he looked forward to "returning to Harvard to teach and write about the economic fundamentals of job creation and stable finance as well as the integration of rising and developing countries into the global system."

Westwood College is in trouble with another state regulatory agency. The for-profit institution, which already faces probation in Colorado and a possible shutdown in Texas, was ordered by Wisconsin regulators on Thursday to cease enrolling students in the state or face fines of up to $500 per day, according to the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism, a nonprofit organization in Madison, Wis. The Wisconsin Educational Approval Board, which regulates for-profit colleges, said Westwood was providing online classes without its approval. A spokeswoman for Westwood College Online declined to comment on Thursday to the investigative-journalism center.

Following several other colleges and universities nationwide, Utah Valley University is teaming up with the local food bank to help students struggling to make ends meet provide healthy meals for themselves and their dependents, according to the Daily Herald, a local newspaper.

The student who stabbed a community-college dean in Kansas City, Mo., on Tuesday was actually trying to kill the Missouri governor, who was scheduled to speak there, and was disappointed when he learned he had attacked the wrong man, according to The Kansas City Star. Casey Brezik, who had attended Metropolitan Community College-Penn Valley for only a few weeks, was described as a paranoid schizophrenic with antigovernment and anarchist views who had abused drugs and spent time in four mental hospitals. He had singled out Gov. Jay Nixon only because of his high government position. The victim of the attack, Al Dimmit Jr., the dean of instruction, is "recovering well," his son said.

A knife-wielding student slashed the throat of a dean at a community college in Kansas City, Mo., this morning, minutes before the governor of Missouri was scheduled to hold a news conference just a few feet away, The Kansas City Star reported. Both the suspect and the victim, Al Dimmitt Jr., dean of instruction at Metropolitan Community College-Penn Valley, reportedly had been in the computer lab where the governor was to speak, along with other students and college officials. Witnesses said the student had been walking around holding a knife and behaving erratically before the incident. Mr. Dimmitt was leaving the room to summon security when the suspect ran after him and attacked him in a hallway. Mr. Dimmitt was taken to a hospital and was in stable condition after having surgery. Gov. Jay Nixon's news conference was canceled.

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Another member of Congress has been accused of violating the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation's anti-nepotism rules by awarding college scholarships provided by the foundation to family members. According to Politico, Rep. Sanford D. Bishop Jr., a nine-term Georgia Democrat, arranged for his stepdaughter and his wife's niece to receive scholarships -- an unspecified amount, but probably several thousands of dollars -- from 2003 to 2005. In recent weeks, Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson, a Texas Democrat, has drawn similar accusations, and after initially blaming her staff for inadvertent errors, she recently returned $31,000 to the foundation that had been improperly awarded to relatives and friends, Politico reported.

In the 2008-9 fiscal year Yale University's endowment took it on the chin, losing 29 percent of its value. But the money managers who oversaw Yale's investments during that tumultuous year, when nearly all endowments got clobbered, were rewarded with lavish raises. According to today's Yale Daily News, which cited Yale's tax filings, the chief investment officer, David Swensen, who has pioneered an oft-imitated philosophy of alternative investments, received a 23-percent increase, to $5.3-million, and his deputy, Dean Takahashi, got a 35-percent raise, to $3.5-million. The numbers pale in comparison to what the men could earn on Wall Street, and since their compensation is based on the endowment's long-term performance -- not just a single-year bust -- they may not see such booming raises in the coming years.

A former fraternity member at California Polytechnic State University at San Luis Obispo has agreed to pay $500,000 to settle a lawsuit filed by the parents of a pledge who died in 2008 after drinking so much at a Sigma Alpha Epsilon hazing event that his blood-alcohol level gave him what one newspaper described as "the equivalent of surgical anesthesia." According to The Tribune, a local newspaper in San Luis Obispo, the fraternity member, Haithem Ibrahim, had been appointed "big brother" to the pledge, and in that capacity, he selected the alcohol that 18-year-old Carson Starkey would drink. Mr. Starkey's parents also have pending lawsuits against the fraternity and other former members, several of whom were sentenced to jail for their roles in the drinking death.