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RAIN 03/04: Weekend Update Part 2 University news



The Herald (Arkansas State U) 02/27/01
Arkansas Atty. Gen. Says student judicial records are open under FOIA
http://news.excite.com/news/uw/010227/university-79

by Megan Lewis
(U-WIRE) STATE UNIVERSITY, Ark. -- University student disciplinary records
are not considered scholastic records and must be disclosed under the state's
Freedom of Information Act, according to a recent attorney general opinion.
The Arkansas Supreme Court has interpreted the term "scholastic records" in
one previous case, and this is the first time the attorney general has
considered the application of university disciplinary hearings constituting
scholastic records, Attorney General Mark Pryor wrote in his Feb. 20 opinion.
Based on interpretations of Arkansas Supreme Court cases, Pryor wrote in his
opinion that "because the scope of the exemption for 'scholastic records'
under the FOIA is not entirely clear, it should be narrowly construed in a
manner that favors disclosure."



Minnesota Daily (U. of Minnesota) 02/27/01
'Cabinet of Curiosities' shows off U. Minnesota, private collections
http://news.excite.com/news/uw/010227/odd-255

by Anna Nguyen
Minnesota Daily
(U-WIRE) MINNEAPOLIS -- Showcasing a cow's hair ball the size of a bowling
ball and the neatly written field notes from Jane Goodall's research in
Africa, an exhibit at the Weisman Art Museum attracted and intrigued nearly
300 visitors on its opening day Friday.
More than 700 items collected from 51 areas of the University of Minnesota as
well as from personal collections are on display in the "Mark Dion: Cabinet
of Curiosities" exhibit at the Weisman Art Museum.



Columbia Daily Spectator (Columbia Univ) 02/28/01
Malcolm X writings form base for Columbia U. project
http://news.excite.com/news/uw/010228/university-157

by Ben Casselman
(U-WIRE) NEW YORK -- Malcolm X gave one of the last speeches of his life at
Columbia University -- in Barnard's LeFrak Gymnasium. Now Columbia is giving
back to Malcolm X's legacy through a new project that will examine the late
civil rights leader's life and also make information about his life more
readily available to the public.



Christian Science Monitor 03/01/01
Historian of the online digital revolution
http://www.csmonitor.com/durable/2001/03/01/fp12s1-csm.shtml

by Tom Regan
David Carlson wants to make sure your grandchildren's children will know what
it was like to have a Prodigy account back in the late 1990s. He also wants
them to know who invented e-mail, how videotex worked, and how people first
got online in, say, Spain. You can find answers to many of these questions at
"David Carlson's Online Timeline"
(http://iml.jou.ufl.edu/carlson/professional/new_media/).
Professor Carlson was founding editor of the Electric Trib of the Albuquerque
Tribune in 1990, when it was one of two newspaper-operated electronic systems
in the world. He is now director of the Interactive Media Lab at the
University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications in
Gainesville.



Evansville Courier & Press 02/26/01
Hacker reportedly gains access to records of 3,000 IU students
http://www.courierpress.com/cgi-bin/view.cgi?200102/26+hacker022601_business.h

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Associated Press
BLOOMINGTON - A hacker apparently downloaded names and Social Security
numbers of about 3,000 Indiana University students this month after a
computer server was left vulnerable.
University officials mailed a letter last week to those people, who are
mostly graduate students, IU spokeswoman Susan Dillman said.
The breach was caused when an employee temporarily responsible for the server
brought it back online after working on it and accidentally left a security
hole open, Dillman said.



Knoxville New Sentinel 03/04/01
Knox Co. Chancery Court balances its 150,000th case
http://www.knoxnews.com/news/24838.shtml

by Randy Kenner
Nearly 169 years after Zacheriah Rose sued his lawyer in a dispute over legal
fees, Knox County Chancery Court passed a quiet milestone last month.
There weren't any falling balloons, music or flashing lights to mark the
event.
Instead it was marked by the usual stamping of documents as Deputy Court
Clerk Dottie Davison recorded the 150,000th case filed in the court, which
was established in 1832 and has numbered its cases sequentially ever since.
"We were both looking out for that case. Well, not that (particular) case,
but the turnover," said Davison.



Knoxville News-Sentinel 03/04/01
Spar over slave ownership first chancery suit
http://www.knoxnews.com/news/24830.shtml

by Randy Kenner
The first lawsuit ever filed in Knox County Chancery Court is similar to a
lot of cases filed today because it involved a dispute over property.
But the property was unlike any you would see in a lawsuit filed there now.
The property in question was a human being in bondage -- a 10-year-old boy
named Daniel.
The child was "a slave for life," according to court documents filed by a man
named Zacheriah Rose.



Los Angeles Times 03/04/01
A treasure trove for students of Reaganology
http://www.latimes.com/editions/valley/20010304/t000019177.html

by Jenifer Ragland
SIMI VALLEY--On a recent weekday at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library
and Museum, fifth-grader Edwin Mendoza's eyes were opened to the 19th-century
world of Queen Victoria.
At the same time, J.J. Albert, a 22-year-old Cal Lutheran University senior,
was poring over once-private documents on the 40th president's immigration
policy for his final project.
And author John Campbell, visiting from London, worked on uncovering
historical morsels to use in the second




Orange County Register 03/03/01
Subpoena fears sinking documents
http://www.ocregister.com/politics/cxrecords1cci.shtml

by Bob Dart and Ken Herman
Cox News Service
WASHINGTON -- Dear Diary: "Sorry. No more entries until I leave the White
House."
Increasingly, historians warn, the fear of litigation is threatening
America's ability to know and understand its past presidents.