Higher Education Notes

MSU student assaulted in residence hall

A female resident in Philips Residence Hall at Michigan State University was assaulted Sunday morning when a man entered her unlocked residence hall room at about 5 a.m., while the resident was asleep.

The suspect covered the victim's mouth, pinned her down to her bed and threatened to kill her if she screamed.

He groped her, punched the left side of her face and then ran out of her room.

The resident, whose roommate was away for the weekend, asked a neighbor for help after the assault.

Student dies of drug overdose

Jonathan Corey Rockwell, a junior at the University of Montana was found dead Friday, on his 26th birthday, in his Rattle Snake, Mont. home of an apparent heroin overdose.

Rockwell's roommate, Ed Zachary, found Rockwell lying on the bathroom floor with a hypodermic needle in his arm. Rockwell died from an overdose of black tar heroin and county deputy coroner Jerry Crego said he most likely died last Wednesday.

Rockwell was a creative writing major from Pennsylvania. His body was flown to Pittsburgh for burial.

Anti-semiticpamphlets litter Northwestern U.

Pamphlets titled, "Facts that the Government and the Media Don't Want You to Know," authored by Matt Hale, the white supremacist leader of the World Church of the Creator in East Peoria, Ill. were found on cars at Northwestern University.

The pamphlets claim Jewish conspiracies control the media and the U.S. government.

Northwestern officials said distribution of such material is illegal because the campus is "private property."

The outgoing message on Hale's answering machine admitted to publicizing the material and that the church had a successful week of distributing the pamphlet.

Jordanian King best man at wedding

King Abdullah of Jordan was the best man to George Faux, a 1984 alum of Dartmouth College, at his on-campus wedding Saturday afternoon.

The two were roommates at Deerfield Academy in Massachusetts and remained friends since. Abdullah arrived with an entourage of about 50 people. This was his second visit to Dartmouth, his first was during Faux's student years.

Mistake in aid application could affect 3.5 million

The Department of Education recalled 3.5 million Free Application for Federal Student Aid forms Monday because they were printed with typos and mistakes in the instructions.

These recalled forms were in the shipping process to colleges, universities and high schools, when a Boston University financial aid administrator informed the department of the mistake.

About 100,000 of those forms were sent to 61 colleges, which are mostly community and technical schools. But some were also sent to the University of Hawaii, the University of Alaska and Texas A&M University.

Officials from Boston University's financial aid office said none of the incorrect forms were sent to the university.

The correct version of this form is being reprinted and is scheduled to be sent out to schools today.

- Compiled by Daily Staff Reporter Jewel Gopwani from U-Wire reports.

10-20-99

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