Scholarship money for sale
Daily Texan (U. Texas-Austin)

(U-WIRE) - A new college financial aid company has begun a service that would allow users to accumulate college funds through a corporate system similar to the frequent flyer system. Upromise, Inc. employs corporations such as the McDonald’s Corporation and the Coca-Cola Company to give back portions of customers’ purchases to be used for college education. These funds would be put into an account and can be added to by any member of the potential student’s family. Some of the companies include AT&T, which will give four percent of its monthly bill back to consumers, and General Motors, which has pledged to contribute $150 for every automobile purchase. All of the money that is accumulated will be put into savings plans, which allow the money to be used on a variety of college expenses, including books and room and board.

Nude photos of prof pulled from U. Montana Web site
Montana Kaimin (U. Montana)

(U-WIRE) - Nude photographs of a University of Montana adjunct instructor were pulled from a Web site linked to the UM server after they were discovered last month. The nude photos were of Steven R. Holloway, an adjunct in the geography department. Holloway helped develop the UM geography site and maintained his own personal site linked to the site that included art, poetry and naked photos of himself. One photo showed Holloway naked facing the camera in front of a waterfall with his legs spread and in another he was standing on his head, also naked. The links no longer appear on the UM geography Web page and the nude photos are no longer on the Web site.

Tents crop up in support of Harvard sit-in
Harvard Crimson (Harvard U.)

(U-WIRE) – Harvard Yard has become “tent city.” Pitched under signs reading “Welcome to Hypocrisy University” and “God Supports a Living Wage” are around 80 tents, from simple ones-tarps draped over clothesline hung between trees-to large, fancy pavilions with awnings. Most of the tents were put up over a week ago in support of the Progressive Students Labor Movement (PSLM) sit-in for a “living wage,” $10.25 an hour for Harvard workers. At its peak two weekends ago, the tent city housed 110 people, according to its organizers.

Northeastern U. could fire tenured profs
Brown Daily Herald (Brown U.)

(U-WIRE) - A proposal submitted to Northeastern University’s faculty senate last week could give the university the power to fire tenured professors. A committee of professors and senior administrators recommended an overhaul of the school’s tenure policies to create an annual departmental review system that would allow the university to fire tenured professors who fail to meet certain standards. The controversial proposal has received attention at schools across the country, where administrators and faculty have looked for ways to balance holding tenured faculty more accountable with protecting their intellectual freedom.