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by Hilary Niles
Campus Coverage Project
Our first in an occasional series of interviews with professional investigative journalists features Jill Riepenhoff.
Note to student journalists: This can be localized at any of your schools that have lottery scholarships.
By Chelsea Boozer
Managing Editor, The Daily Helmsman
University of Memphis President Shirley Raines is among officials opposed to a bill in Congress that they said might cause a decrease in funding for HOPE Lottery Scholarships.
by Christopher Whitten
University of Memphis
Students at The University of Memphis' Lambuth campus may be getting less bang for their buck.
While students on the main campus pay a $40 student activity fee plus $17 for health services and $25 for recreation, Lambuth students pay the same $82, but under the umbrella of a single student activity fee. The Lambuth campus, however, does not yet have a health center or recreational facility, according to Jeannie Smith, assistant vice president for finance.
by Christopher Whitten
University of Memphis
Last year's University of Memphis general election for the Student Government Association saw infractions concerning misplaced campaign material, misappropriation of funds and misconduct by student candidates. This year, SGA President Tyler DeWitt plans to eliminate that behavior by implementing a new system, which will reduce the percentage of overall votes received by the party in violation.
by Christopher Whitten
University of Memphis
Halfway into Student Government Association President Tyler DeWitt's term, the 21-year-old graduate student accounting major said he considers his time in office to have been a success "so far."
While DeWitt said some of his campaign promises were fulfilled, including updating the SGA website in a timely manner and extending students' ability to use the HOPE scholarship during the summer term, he's failed to deliver on one.
by Beth Cooper
edited by Chelsea Boozer
University of Memphis
When Beth Cooper, Daily Helmsman news reporter, heard rumors of sexual harrassment and employee mistreatment by a supervisor in The University of Memphis' Physical Plant department, she couldn't get any complainants or those against whom charges were alleged to talk to her -- so she turned to documents.
by Molly Willms
St. Cloud State University
The administration calls it frustrating.
Depending on to whom you talk, the Saffari issue is varying degrees of confidential.
In a half-hour meeting last week, President Potter released few details – he is limited by his position as a state employee, he says, and can’t discuss personnel matters with anyone.
by Michael Auslen
Indiana University
Last spring, in an action that has drawn criticism from current and former student leaders, the IU Board of Trustees closed the office of University Chancellor Ken Gros Louis, a senior administrator whose primary role was working with student leaders.
Members of the board said the decision was made because Gros Louis’ initial five-year appointment as chancellor, a position he occupied without pay, was set to expire.
by Nathalie Miraval
Harvard College
Two sisters, one in pink and one in purple, held a sign twice their size as cars passed by in Harvard Square. The poster showed two monkeys in a cage, holding each other tight, and a slogan demanding an end to animal testing.
“This is what they do to animals in laboratories,” their mother explained to the girls.
by Molly Willms
St. Cloud State University
More than three months after the dismissal of Mahmoud Saffari, the St. Cloud University administration has been able to provide the University Chronicle with a who, what, where, when and even a how to help explain the dismissal of Mahmoud Saffari. The area that remains fuzzy is the why.
Associate Vice President of Enrollment Management Mahmoud Saffari was dismissed from his employment at SCSU in September of 2011.
