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"Some college administrators seem so distracted with fund raising, academic infighting, and community initiatives that they set up their emergency communications departments very poorly. Training is poor to nonexistent, secretaries are pressed into service with tremendous responsibilities for running 'notification systems' 24/7 and on weekends because no one else knows how to do it and the administration won’t pay for additional staff. Procedures are seat-of-the-pants and dependent on HIPPO (highest paid person’s opinion), except when something like Virginia Tech happens and there is some sort of scramble to do something different." --Donna
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Connecticut Public Colleges Lose 200 Professors to Early Retirement
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U. of Georgia Paid 2 Fraternities $2.4-Million to Relocate, Contracts Show
The two were among five with houses on property where the university plans to build new academic facilities.
New Allegations in Admissions Controversy at U. of Illinois Suggest Ex-Provost Played a Role
Linda P.B. Katehi, the incoming chancellor of the University of California at Davis, has insisted she knew nothing of the admission of politically connected applicants at Illinois.
Sonoma State U. Foundation May Lose $350,000 on Loan to Former Board Member
The foundation will be forced to issue fewer scholarships in the 2010-11 academic year because of a diminished endowment, a university official said.
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March 6, 2008
Colombian Attack in Ecuador Leaves 1 Mexican Student Injured; Another Is Feared Dead
Mexico City — A university student from Mexico was wounded and another may have been killed in a Colombian military attack on a guerrilla base camp in Ecuador late last week.
The raid, on March 1, was meant to crush terrorist activities allegedly being planned by members of the Marxist Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, Colombia’s largest guerrilla group. Ecuador and Venezuela have since ordered troops to their borders with Colombia and reduced diplomatic ties with that nation, calling the attack a violation of Ecuador’s sovereignty, the Associated Press reported.
Today, Mexico’s Foreign Relations Ministry announced that it was attempting to confirm reports that two Mexican citizens had died during the conflict. The ministry did not identify the citizens in question, but it is believed that one of them was a student at Mexico’s National Autonomous University, or UNAM, according to the Associated Press.
Lucia Andrea Morett, 26, a drama student at the university, was injured in the attack and remained hospitalized in Quito, Ecuador, as of Wednesday. Ms. Morett’s parents confirmed to the Mexican news media that she had attended a leftist political conference in Ecuador, but they denied that she was involved in rebel activities. They said that she planned to become an actress. Students at the university told the Los Angeles Times that Ms. Morett was a known activist, but they also denied that she was a guerrilla or involved in any illegal activities.
The AP reported that OkupacheWeb, a Web site run by a leftist student group, lists Ms. Morett as a member of a group at the university that supports the Colombian rebels’ cause. —Monica Campbell
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