Current News New Reports Illustrate Racial Disparities in Criminal Justice System Marking the 35th anniversary of New York’s controversial Rockefeller drug laws, the tough mandatory minimum sentencing laws for drug offenders, three new reports were issued by the Human Rights Watch (HRW), The Sentencing Project (TSP) and the New York Civil Liberties Union (NYCLU) that highlight the alarming racial disparities that exist in drug-related arrest and imprisonment. May 9, 2008, 22:49
Current News Report Measures Levels of Campus Inclusivity at Three Colleges and Universities Intolerance, threats and verbal insults pervaded the campuses of three predominately White institutions, the University of California, Berkeley, Michigan State University, and Columbia College, according to a student survey in the recently released report, “If I’d Only Known.” May 8, 2008, 21:42
Current News Authorities arrest 75 students in drug bust at San Diego University Authorities arrested 96 people, most of them students, as part of an undercover drug investigation at San Diego State University that began after a student’s fatal cocaine overdose last spring, authorities said Tuesday. May 7, 2008, 21:39
Current News Experts Say Suicide, Not Homicide Is a Larger Threat to Nation’s College Campuses The Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University and Northern Illinois University shootings have garnered much media attention, but suicide is a larger threat to the nation’s college students, said a panel at the American Psychiatric Association’s annual meeting in Washington. May 6, 2008, 23:14
Current News Controversies Crop Up Around Commencement Speaker Selections NAACP chairman Julian Bond and U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas are the subjects of much scrutiny as they prepare to deliver commencement speeches this month at two East Coast universities. May 5, 2008, 22:24
