CU in tight college race to register voters
(U-WIRE) BOULDER, Colo. - The University of Colorado at Boulder is in the running for the Voter's Cup. No, the big silver trophy is not for the winner of an athletic competition, but for the winner of a multi-university voter-registration competition.
Three universities - the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the University of Oregon, and CU - will compete to see who registers more students to vote in the November elections, according to Jessica Bralish, public relations director for the University of Colorado Student Union.
The current tally shows it will be a close race between the UW-Madison and CU-Boulder.
UCSU is bringing in big-name celebrities for the drive, among them actor Jason Alexander, best known for his role as George Costanza on NBC's "Seinfeld." Alexander will help in the registration drive on Saturday.
Ludacris to perform at NC State pep rally
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(U-WIRE) RALEIGH, N.C. - It's so crazy, one might call it Ludacris.
The homecoming committee announced Tuesday hip-hop artist Ludacris will be headlining the pep rally Oct. 1 at North Carolina State University.
"(Ludacris') music will play across different groups," committee chair Jackie Larson said.
The concert, preceded by a pep rally, will have an admission charge.
A multi-tiered scale for students, alumni and outsiders will be in place. Larson said students would have the lowest rate.
The committee initially requested Big Boi of the hip-hop band OutKast appear. According to Larson, the artist was enthusiastic about coming and even requested that the date be changed to the Saturday of the game so he could appear while fulfilling his commitments to a movie he is a part of there.
Ludacris and Big Boi use the same concert agent, and Ludacris' name was returned to the committee.
East Coast colleges see deaths on campuses
(U-WIRE) WASHINGTON, D.C. - During the first week of classes, three student deaths have occurred at prominent East Coast universities, two of which have been confirmed as suicides.
The deaths occurred after a string of student suicides over the past year, particularly on the campuses of New York University and George Washington University.
Joann Mitchell Levy, a 23-year-old graduate student at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts jumped to her death from the roof of a 12-story building last Tuesday.
Nineteen-year-old sophomore Susan Shin of GW jumped to her death from her eighth story apartment last Wednesday.
And 19-year-old Princeton sophomore Melissa Huang was found dead in her dorm room the previous Sunday, although the cause of death in this case is yet to be determined.
USC swimmer arrested for spying on showers
(U-WIRE) COLUMBIA, S.C. - Police have charged a former member of the University of South Carolina's swimming and diving team with spying on women as they showered.
According to the arrest warrant, an unidentified victim picked Mateusz Marek Kacprzak, a first-year geophysics student from Bacewicz, Poland, out of a photograph lineup last week. Kacprzak, who was attending USC on a swimming scholarship, then admitted to the crimes.
He has been charged with peeping, a misdemeanor, and he posted bond at a hearing before a Richland County magistrate Tuesday afternoon.
State law requires people convicted of peeping, voyeurism or aggravated voyeurism to register with the S.C. Law Enforcement Division's sex offender registry every year for the rest of their lives.
Notre Dame offers Irish language program
(U-WIRE) SOUTH BEND, Ind. - Alive and thriving, the Irish Studies program at the University of Notre Dame offers students the opportunity to embrace their history and discover the language of their ancestors - a language not "dead" by any means.
"Irish is a modern spoken European language, not some dead language like Latin or Sanskrit," said Eamonn O'Ciardha, professor in the Keough Institute for Irish Studies.
Studying Irish, he continued, "gives people insight into the fact that Ireland is a multi-lingual country."
In fact, the 10-year old program's remarkable growth has led to the foundation of a separate department of Irish language and literature, O'Ciardha said. This department, which will be officially launched on Oct. 1 by the Irish ambassador to the United States, will be the first of its kind in the country.
