Students call trip to Cuba a humbling experience
DAVIS, Calif. (U-WIRE) -Ten University of California-Davis students returned to the United States humbled after immersing themselves in a culture foreign to their own.
The group returned Mar. 14 from a 10-week abroad experience in Cuba that few universities are able to offer. Because of federal law, such programs must last a minimum of 10 weeks, creating cost difficulties for participants.
The UCD students each paid about $11,000 for the trip.
Historically black schools focus of exchange program
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CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (U-WIRE) - The University of Virginia Student Council unanimously passed a resolution Tuesday to endorse a student exchange program for students to attend historically African-American universities.
Greg Jackson, council vice president of administration, said it will start with the University of Virginia.
"It is so that students can go to Howard University, for example, and take courses that they couldn't take here," he said.
The creation of the program was presented as a recommendation in the Curriculum Sub-Committee Report in the President's Commission on Diversity and Equity report.
Ashley Judd surprises Kentucky fraternity
LEXINGTON, Ky. (U-WIRE) - Wildcat sweetheart and actress Ashley Judd came back to her college town Tuesday to talk to young men about sex.
And members of the Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity were eager to engage in the conversation.
Judd stunned the University of Kentucky fraternity when she and Kate Roberts, executive director and founder of YouthAIDS, made a surprise lunch stop at the fraternity house on Tuesday. The two sat down with fraternity members to talk about AIDS prevention, part of a special segment for MTVU, MTV's college channel.
Kent State employees receive sniper threat
KENT, Ohio (U-WIRE) - Some Parking Services employees are looking at their jobs more seriously after minor threats of physical abuse turned into a sniper threat.
Ron Phelps, a full-time employee of Parking Services, received a call March 17 from a man who said he was a sniper, said Andrew Raulie, a student enforcement officer and junior justice studies major.
The campus police do not think the threat is legitimate, said John Peach of the Kent State Police Department, and he told Parking Services there is no reason to act on this vague threat.
Waterless urinal takes a trial run in restroom
EUGENE, Ore. (U-WIRE) - Male University of Oregon students have a unique opportunity to help conserve water on campus. A waterless urinal was installed in a men's restroom near the Associated Students of the University of Oregon office during spring break.
The idea came from Brandon Rhodes, vice chair of the Erb Memorial Union Board of Directors and chair of the building's long-range planning committee.
EMU Facilities Director Dana Winitzky said the urinal was donated by Edgewater NW, a local representative of the urinal's manufacturer, Waterless Co.
Students plan road trip in vegetable oil-powered car
HANOVER, N.H. (U-WIRE) - Fourteen Dartmouth College seniors and one junior will embark on a cross-country road trip this summer without ever paying the skyrocketing cost of gassing up their bus.
As part of the Big Green Bus Club's grassroots campaign to promote alternative fuels, the group of ultimate Frisbee players will travel to over 40 cities in a converted school bus powered by vegetable oil.
Colorado rebuilds staff after athletic scandal
BOULDER, Colo. (AP) - San Diego State athletic director Mike Bohn has agreed to return home to take the same post within Colorado's troubled department, the university announced.
Bohn was introduced as the replacement for Dick Tharp on Wednesday.
The 44-year-old Boulder, Colo., native has a tremendous task, repairing the damage done by scandals within the football program that contributed to the departure of Tharp, chancellor Richard Byyny and university President Betsy Hoffman.
