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Athlete appeals suspension after arrest: analysis of Student-Athletes Conduct and the Criminal Justice System
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by Christopher Whitten
edited by Chelsea Boozer
The Daily Helmsman

Although University of Memphis football player Derek Howard was suspended after his arrest for assault in January, the defensive back never missed a scheduled team workout, practice or scrimmage. His appeal of the suspension, through a policy for athletes arrested for a crime, was granted.

“It is not about whether or not he was guilty, but rather is a process much more designed to decide what is in the best interest of The University and the student,” said University Counsel Sherri...

Lawyer says different appeal standards under athlete conduct policy ‘shady’
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by Christopher Whitten
University of Memphis

Though suspended following an arrest on assault charges in January, football defensive back Derek Howard never missed a scheduled team workout, practice or scrimmage and was granted his appeal to the suspension through a policy for athletes who are arrested for a crime.
 
He appealed to the designated committee under the Student-Athletes Conduct and the Criminal Justice System policy that was designed in 2007. 
 
“It is not about whether or not he was guilty, but rather is a process much...

Women walk to spread the word: Student plans ‘SlutWalk’ to raise awareness on the recurrence of rapes across college campuses
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By Chelsea Boozer
University of Memphis 

Kaile Pippin never thought it would happen to her.

She was a sophomore at the University of Mississippi two years ago, working as a resident assistant, when she was raped. After months of dealing with campus police, the Office of Judicial Affairs and state prosecutors, the charges were dropped and Pippin was left feeling campus officials knew there were rapes but didn’t care and wouldn’t help the victims.

In response to college students who, like her, have been raped and felt police and administrators were...

UGA to separate adventure from academics in study abroad programs
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by Lindsey Cook 
University of Georgia 

Adventure may have to take a back-seat to academics at Global LEAD, a private study abroad program that partnered with the University of Georgia in 2009. 

The university has proposed distinguishing the heart-pumping excitement of some experiential learning activities from more academically rigorous forms of instruction. Currently students at more than 10 universities can earn six upper-level credits for international trips that include cage-diving with great white sharks, 

Noel Fallows,...

Exploring an alternative justice system
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by Lindsey Hobbs
Otterbein University 

In the first of a two-part series on campus security, Lindsey Hobbs digs into the process that protects some Otterbein University students from the criminal records they might earn off-campus. 

Otterbein's security department has trained to become a fully certified police department. However, it still diverts most campus crime to a campus judicial council, thus helping students avoid criminal charges. According to campus crime statistics, disciplinary referrals outnumber criminal charges as far back as 2007,...

Professor claims to be victim of cyber attack
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by Lindsey Cook
University of Georgia

The University of Georgia is investigating claims by a 25-year veteran computer science professor that he has come under cyber attack.

Allegations of fraud have centered around UGA professor Hamid Arabnia and WORLDCOMP, an annual World Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering and Applied Computing that Arabnia runs.

The individual responsible for creating a Google website called "worlddump1," which lambasts the conference as a "fake," has not been identified. The same person, using various...

95 percent of student government positions uncontested
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by Jessie Hellmann 
University of Southern Indiana 

Ninety-five percent of the student government positions at stake in recent elections were uncontested at University of Southern Indiana. Digging into the data behind uncontested positions, reporter and news editor Jessie Hellman found a trend.

During the 2011-2012 elections, out of the eight positions on the ballot, three were contested. Voter turnout has been under 10 percent for at least the past five elections, according to documents from the SGA office. 

Emily Severeid, SGA's current...