Scandalous e-mails cause campus uproar at Baylor
(U-WIRE) WACO, Texas - Baylor University officials filed a lawsuit against someone who sent sexually explicit and fraudulent e-mails to members of the Baylor community while posing as administrators and others.
The individual's identity is unknown.
According to a Nov. 19 Houston Chronicle article, the e-mails began in August and have increased in number.
"The e-mails contain false reports on people's health; pornography, both images and in language; and target individuals in order to harass and hold them up to ridicule," said Noley Bice, Baylor University general counsel.
One-month writing contest inspires novel ideas
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(U-WIRE) AUSTIN, Texas - It's not about landing fancy trips or cars, nor developing the literary equivalent of an Oscar-winning character performance.
It's about producing an original 50,000-word novel in the span of just one measly November at the University of Texas, Austin.
If you do this, then you've become a National Novel Writing Month winner.
Besides jump-starting the creative process, National Novel Writing Month, or NaNoWriMo, also donates to charities.
NYU considers banning Coke sales on campus
(U-WIRE) NEW YORK - The New York University Committee on Student Life will vote Thursday on whether to support a ban of Coca-Cola sales on campus after months of urging by the Campaign to Stop Killer Coke.
A handful of colleges in the United States, including Bard and Carleton, have already banned Coke sales on campus.
If UCSL passes the Coke ban, the proposal will be referred to the All-University Senate's Committee on Organizations and Governance before coming to a final vote.
The outrage against Coca-Cola stems from murders and violence that took place at Coke's bottling facilities in Colombia.
Wal-Mart heiress accused of using fortune to cheat
(U-WIRE) LOS ANGELES - University of Southern California has launched an investigation into allegations that Wal-Mart heiress Elizabeth Paige Laurie, who graduated in May 2004, paid a former roommate $20,000 over the span of three and a half years to do Laurie's homework for nearly every class.
Laurie's roommate Elena Martinez alleged that Laurie paid her to do work during a broadcast of ABC's "20/20" that aired Nov. 19.
