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Colleges nationwide have reconsidered their policies for dealing with potentially dangerous students after April’s rampage student shooting at Virginia Tech...
...plans, according to Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross ’71. The College is investigating a system that would allow urgent text messages to be sent directly to students’ cell phones, he says, which may be in place as soon as this fall. At Virginia Tech, an e-mail warning of the first shootings did not reach many students in time...
...While Harvard’s efforts in response to these situations and Virginia Tech have focused on improving crisis response tactics, Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs at Princeton Katherine S. Newman says that universities like Harvard are very unlikely places to experience rampage shootings such as the one in Blacksburg. Her research on school violence has found that most of the reported instances of school shootings have occurred in “highly conformist” and isolated rural areas where there are few alternatives for students who feel isolated from the primary social groups. Because of Harvard?...
...William Jefferson, a 1972 graduate of Harvard Law School who became infamous when the FBI found $90,000 in his home freezer in August 2005, was charged with 16 corruption-related felonies in Virginia on Monday. Jefferson, a Louisiana Democrat, is accused of seeking millions of dollars in bribes from companies doing business in the United States and Africa. The 94-page indictment—which charges Jefferson with bribery, racketeering, money laundering, and obstruction of justice, among other things—said that he used his position as a member of the House Ways and Means Subcommittee on Trade...
Since our announcement, Princeton and the University of Virginia have also eliminated their early admission programs. We immediately contacted them to see if they might wish to join us for recruiting activities in November and December. Both schools have enthusiastically agreed, and we believe that our combined efforts—which mirror our current spring and early fall joint travel trips to 120 cities along with Duke, Georgetown, the University of Pennsylvania, and Stanford—will enable us to attract an even better and more diverse pool of applicants...