Among this fall's incoming class of 460, there were 30 women enrolled at VMI. At least 26 men and 2 women dropped out by the time classes began last week, The Chronicle of Higher Education reported.
Last year, after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled VMI's admissions policy unconstitutional, VMI superintendent Gen. Josiah Bunting III began a transition to avoid the kind of problems South Carolina's Citadel encountered last year when a female student was admitted.
Federal regulators have fined Dartmouth College for safety violations in connection with the death of a researcher who spilled a mercury compound on herself in 1996, The Chronicle of Higher Education reported.
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration issued a $13,500 fine last month in a lawsuit involving chemistry Prof. Karen Wetterhahn, who died in June 1997 of complications from mercury exposure. Wetterhahn had spilled drops of dimethyl mercury, a rare chemical that attacks the central nervous system, on one latex glove during an experiment in August 1996.
OSHA's New Hampshire director, David May, said Dartmouth had failed to provide adequate training on the limits of the gloves and to provide appropriate materials for research.
A university investigation showed that unbeknownst to zoo officials, at least 12 zoo monkeys in the last decade had died from lethal injections of the AIDS virus. Monkeys were sometimes transferred from the zoo to the campus to alleviate overcrowding. An additional 26 monkeys were found to have been used in a tissue redistribution program at the campus center.
Guevera, executed 30 years ago by Bolivian troops, traveled by motorcycle throughout South America in 1952. He kept diaries, recording his impressions of life in the different regions.
During her trip, Dr. Brodman said she hopes to discover and document how South America has changed politically, socially and economically since Guevera's journey.
-Compiled by Daily Staff Reporter Meg Exley.
09-10-97
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