The University of California at Irvine plans to uphold the suspension of a Muslim student group, the Los Angeles Times reported on Saturday. The Muslim Student Union had appealed a suspension handed down in June after several students disrupted a February lecture by Michael Oren, the Israeli ambassador. The university had originally recommended a yearlong ban, but the suspension was reduced to the fall academic quarter. The group must complete 100 hours of community service before it can apply for reinstatement. If that request is granted, the group will be on probation for two years.

A subcommittee of the House ethics committee investigating U.S. Rep. Charles B. Rangel, a New York Democrat, suggested a reprimand rather than an ouster on Friday, and the congressman is defending his actions, The New York Times reported. Mr. Rangel, who is 80,  faces ethics charges for, among other things, doing a political favor for a donor to the City University of New York. The donor's gift financed a center bearing the representative's name. In an interview aired Friday night on CBS, President Obama said Representative Rangel had "served his constituents very well" but suggested he should "end his career with dignity," according to Politico.

Activists, including some faculty members, protested a partnership with BP and the University of California at Berkeley on Friday, the Associated Press reported. The oil company gave the university $500-million three years ago to establish the Energy Biosciences Institute, which seeks alternative fuel sources. The protesters poured chocolate syrup—to represent oil—near the construction site of a building that will house the the institute, a joint partnership with Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the University of Illinois. Berkeley officials said they had no intention of ending the partnership, and institute officials say BP does not influence EBI scientists' work.

Prosecutors are presenting evidence to a grand jury that will decide whether criminal charges should be brought against Amy Bishop in the shooting death of her brother in 1986 in Massachusetts, reports The Boston Globe. Ms. Bishop, a former professor at the University of Alabama at Huntsville, allegedly opened fire in a faculty meeting and killed three colleagues and wounded three others. The new evidence is a result of a judicial inquest into the shooting 24 years ago, in which Ms. Bishop was never charged.

The Pac-10 conference is preparing to invite the University of Texas, Texas A&M, Texas Tech, the University of Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, and the University of Colorado to join its league, according to Orangebloods.com, the Web site of the University of Texas Longhorns. The megaconference would start its own television network with Fox Cable Networks, already the partner of the Pac-10 and chief operating partner of the successful Big Ten Network. The Universities of Missouri and of Nebraska are reportedly also considering jumping ship, maybe to the Big Ten. Left lonesome would be the University of Kansas, Kansas State, Baylor, and Iowa State. So while it's not yet clear exactly how, a reshuffling among conferences seems likely.

Updated 6/6/2010: The presidents of the Pac-10's member institutions voted on Sunday to give the conference's commissioner, Larry Scott, authority to move ahead...

Players, colleagues, and fans are paying tribute to John Wooden, the legendary coach who took the Bruins to 10 NCAA championships in the 1960s and 70s. Coach Wooden, who died Friday at age 99, shepherded a player named Lew Alcindor, better known as Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, and another named Bill Walton, but was famous for such aphorisms as "the main ingredient of stardom is the rest of the team." Under Mr. Wooden's leadership UCLA won 88 consecutive games, still the NCAA record.

The Maryland Department of the Environment fined the Johns Hopkins University and Johns Hopkins Hospital a total of $370,000 for violations involving radiation, The Sun of Baltimore reported on Saturday. The fine, announced Friday, concerns the handling of radiation materials and the radiation treatment of a patient and is the largest such penalty Johns Hopkins has ever received. A spokesman for the department told The Sun that the radiation breaches were matters of security, not public health. The patient who was erroneously treated was not injured, the newspaper said.

A police officer who described a Harvard professor as a "banana-eating jungle monkey" in an e-mail message has been fired from the force, The Boston Globe reported Saturday. Justin Barrett wrote the slur in a message to Yvonne Abraham, a Globe columnist, about Henry Louis Gates Jr., the professor who accused another officer of racial profiling when he arrested Mr. Gates for disorderly conduct. The police were investigating a call about a break-in—it was Mr. Gates, without keys, opening his own door—and the event led to a national discussion about racial profiling.

With "Snowmageddon" closing campuses from Morgantown, W.Va., to Baltimore, The Chronicle wondered if dining halls are open and how students are faring. American University's Web site says dining halls will stay open, but with 24 inches of snow, can workers get there? And while George Mason and Stevenson Universities posted similar messages, the Universities of Maryland at College Park and of Mary Washington, Towson University, and Goucher College -- all of which closed Saturday -- don't show dining-hall status. (Internal campus alerts might have more information.) How much snow is on your campus? Are dining halls open? Do you have tips or resources to share?

Richard T. Antoun, 77, an emeritus professor of anthropology at Binghamton University, a campus in the State University of New York system, died on Friday after being stabbed in his office by a graduate student, according to the Binghamton Press & Sun Bulletin. The police have charged Abdulsalam al-Zahrani, a 46-year-old student in cultural anthropology, with second-degree murder.