Boston College minority leaders are outraged about a racist e-mail they received, The Daily Free Press, Boston University's school newspaper reported Monday.
Thirteen students from different ethnic backgrounds, including Asian Americans, Hispanics, blacks and Native Americans received an e-mail Monday urging them to drop out of school.
Students upset by the e-mail are banding together and wore blue yesterday to demonstrate their solidarity.
Boston College officials said they contacted the Federal Bureau of Investigation and plan to file criminal charges.
Many students said the incident brought the problem of racism on a college campus to light, the newspaper reported.
After announcing the college's intentions, an open forum was held to discuss the ramifications of the pact.
Berkeley has had a declining budget since 1992. Its alliance with a pharmaceutical company could lead to the exchange of research information and a $25-million investment.
Under the proposed plan, the company will have publication rights to research and other bargaining rights to influence research by Berkeley scientists.
The pact needs to be improved by Berkeley's Academic Senate and the UC Board of Regents before it can become official.
The move was announced by Vice President Al Gore at a jazz gala at his home in Washington, D.C.
Students from around the world can study as fellows at the Institute for a two-year period.
The program will work in a partnerships with USC's School of Music to teach music composition, theory, ear training, improvisation and performance skills.
State senators said faculty is wasting resources by not participating in decisions regarding higher education.
Members of the faculty expressed their frustration at the lack of communication with the university administration and with the Legislature.
The legislators said they would defend tenure because they feel tenure is needed to have academic freedom.
- Compiled by Daily staff reporter Susan T. Port .
The university is attempting to reduce the cost for students who want to take classes outside the physical university boundaries, the Daily Nebraskan reported.
The university is comparing the tuition rate for distance-education and on-campus education.
The school's distance-education program teaches students all over the world through the internet, mail and via satellite.
The program also consists of a traveling professor who teaches students at learning centers or through various types of computer technology.
A distance education costs about 50 percent more than on-campus tuition rates. But university officials said that because this is a time when distance education is becoming more common, the university should reconsider how much it chooses to pay for the service.
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