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...incidence of one too many false fire alarms prompted Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross ’71 to send out a courteous but stern letter to undergraduates last week, reminding them that they could be expelled for tampering with fire safety equipment. The day after Gross penned the letter, a prankster sprayed a fire extinguisher throughout Canaday D, leading to the evacuation of the building and forcing students in D entryway to sleep elsewhere for the night. Although campus administrators state that the number of false alarms has not been abnormally high this year, a fair amount...
...heart of the old town, did not turn out as expected. It was intended to mark the elevation of Stanislaw Wielgus, 67, to the post of Archbishop of Warsaw, the most important post in the Polish Catholic Church. Instead, the archbishop began his service by reading from a letter he had just completed to the Vatican: "After profound reflection and assessment of my personal situation, I submit to the hands of Your Holiness my resignation from the office of Warsaw Metropolitan Archbishop," he read. Wielgus's resignation, which was accepted by Rome, followed two weeks of allegations that...
...teachers are going at each other. Shortly after members of the Duke University Lacrosse team were accused of rape last March, 88 faculty members signed an open letter that appeared in the student newspaper sympathizing with the accuser. Now, after the case against the students appears to be falling apart, 17 members of the economics department faculty have sent a letter to the student newspaper expressing their support for the players, and stating in part, "We regret that the Duke faculty is now seen as prejudiced against certain of its own students...
...latest open letter comes after a lacrosse team member filed a lawsuit against the university alleging that the school and his political science professor intentionally failed him after rape case was made public. The student, Kyle Dowd, was not charged in the case but had to take time out from class for meetings with his attorney. His teacher, Kim Curtis, a visiting associate professor who specializes in political and feminist theory, was one of the faculty members who signed the Group of 88 letter...
...Until now, no faculty member at Duke had come out to support the players. Roy Weintraub, an economics professor at Duke, drafted this week's letter. "It was something that had been bothering me for a while, that the Duke faculty was being characterized as being hostile to its own students, especially statements by faculty members that have been construed that way," Weintraub told TIME. "I wanted to make sure that there was some expression that students are welcomed in our class, including lacrosse players, students in good standing...