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...advising programs. I want to set the record straight and make our goals and objectives very clear. We want to provide the Class of 2010 with the best advising possible!First, a little background: As a result of the recommendations in the Report of the Committee on Advising and Counseling, the College established the Advising Programs Office (APO) to help coordinate, facilitate, and support undergraduate advising efforts. The first initiatives are, among other things, to establish a peer advising program, recruit more non-resident advisers for the Board of Freshman Advisers, improve the orientation for those advisers, and coordinate electronic...
...admissible in court, knowing whom a suspect is talking to can prove useful in solving crimes and inducing confessions. "Just because evidence is not used at trial doesn?t mean it has no effect on the case or that there?s no harm," says Sherwin Siy, staff counsel at the Electronic Privacy Information Center. Texas-based PDJ Investigations, which runs several online information-gathering sites, along with another data broker who wished to remain anonymous, told TIME that they willingly give information to the police, often for free, if it is requested. Many websites in fact advertise helping law enforcement...
...came expecting to get a check and made clear it was to clear legal fees," says Scott Charton, director of university communications. The meeting was fairly tempestuous, involving threats of litigation. In any case, according to a statement Missouri released on Monday, the university?s general counsel concluded, after talking to the state attorney general, that there were "legal questions" concerning the propriety of returning the funds. The Missouri constitution doesn't allow public funds to be given to private concerns - either to Lay or his charities. "Our position is: it's university property now. Are we merely a savings...
...appointment to see her the following day.) When a judge last year refused to throw out the suit, alarm bells went off in administrative offices across the country. "To hold a university liable for simply trying to help a student is extraordinary," says Nelson Roth, Cornell's deputy university counsel, explaining why the school joined six others in supporting M.I.T. in the case. Shin's death was a tragedy, Roth says, "but not every tragedy warrants a lawsuit...
...double major in German and neurobiology agreed to head home last month to Kansas City, Mo., with plans to enter a psychiatric hospital. Five weeks later, she's disappointed that Cornell hasn't made any follow-up calls to see how she's doing. But Cornell's deputy counsel Roth has an explanation: "Once the student is gone or goes home, the individual becomes the responsibility of parents. Our obligation ends...