More than a year and a half after Physics Prof. Louis Bloomfield initiated the 158-case plagiarism investigation that drew national attention to the University's honor system, committee members announced yesterday that the last of the resulting honor trials have been completed. Of the 158 students whose cases were processed, 59 were formally accused of an honor offense.
Since the new national campaign finance law took effect Nov. 6, a growing number of activist organizations, politicians, lobbyist groups and states are taking sides in a court challenge to the law that could end up in the Supreme Court within months. The Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act aims to change the current trend of campaign finance by banning soft money contributions to national political parties, increasing hard money contribution limits and restricting corporations and labor unions from running ads explicitly in favor of one candidate. More than 80 plaintiffs are challenging the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act in federal court, arguing that the ban of "soft money" contributions represents an encroachment on First Amendment rights. Sens.
NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. -- With both parties vying for control of an evenly-split Senate in yesterday's elections, New Jersey voters handed an important victory to the Democratic Party by electing Frank Lautenberg over Republican challenger Douglas Forrester with 54 percent of the vote. An 18-year veteran of the Senate chamber, Lautenberg emerged from a two-year retirement five weeks ago to replace the state's Democratic incumbent Robert Torricelli, who abruptly withdrew from the race because of lingering questions about improper contributions he received that drew reprimand from the Senate Ethics Committee. "We squeezed 10 months into five weeks," Lautenberg said in a victory speech delivered to an auditorium packed with reporters, cameras and campaign supporters. "I'm here with a mandate to follow Democratic priorities," he added, standing behind a podium flanked by family members and fellow New Jersey Democrats, including Gov.
NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. -- With both parties vying for control of an evenly-split Senate in yesterday's elections, New Jersey voters handed an important victory to the Democratic Party by electing Frank Lautenberg over Republican challenger Douglas Forrester with 54 percent of the vote. An 18-year veteran of the Senate chamber, Lautenberg emerged from a two-year retirement five weeks ago to replace the state's Democratic incumbent Robert Torricelli, who abruptly withdrew from the race because of lingering questions about improper contributions he received that drew reprimand from the Senate Ethics Committee. "We squeezed 10 months into five weeks," Lautenberg said in a victory speech delivered to an auditorium packed with reporters, cameras and campaign supporters. "I'm here with a mandate to follow Democratic priorities," he added, standing behind a podium flanked by family members and fellow New Jersey Democrats, including Gov.
Nervous Virginians across the Commonwealth watched last night as Gov. Mark R. Warner made a statewide, televised address outlining the "painful" funding cuts he sees as necessary for meeting this year's forecasted $1.5 billion shortfall in state revenue. "A budget shortfall of this magnitude cannot be solved by sound bytes of cutting the fat," Warner said.
Meredith Richards and the University Democrats have both offered to reimburse the University for the cost of using the internal messenger mail service to distribute 600 political fundraiser invitations to faculty mailboxes. Richards is challenging Republican Virgil Goode for Virginia's 5th District Congressional seat. Dave Sagarin, Richards' campaign spokesman, said Richards thought the invitations would be hand-delivered to faculty mailboxes around Grounds by members of the University Democrats. "Although the Richards for Congress campaign was under the impression that the invitations would be stuffed in individual mailboxes, they were not, and we are ultimately responsible for actions taken on our behalf," Sagarin said. According to University Mail Services policy, student groups, known as Contracted Independent Organizations, are permitted to communicate with faculty via messenger mail, provided mail "be related to University business." After receiving complaints from faculty members about the mailing, Mail Services Manager Jack Parker obtained a copy of the invitation and said it represented an inappropriate use of the system. But because of the student organization's involvement in the event, both Sagarin and Katie Hamm, vice president of the University Democrats, questioned whether a clear-cut violation occurred. "Nobody really knows what the limitations are," Sagarin said.
A printed invitation to a political fundraiser that solicited a $125 donation for Democrat Meredith Richards' Congressional campaign recently was mass-mailed through the University's free, intra-departmental postal service -- in a possible effort to cut campaign costs. This constitutes an abuse of University resources by an outside party, internal mail officials said. Richards is challenging the Republican incumbent Virgil H.
Seeking both financial relief for the state's cash-starved higher education system and a political victory for his administration, Gov.
When Gov. Mark R. Warner estimated an unexpected shortfall of $1.5 billion in the Virginia budget one month ago, he immediately ordered state universities and other institutions to submit three budget plans accounting for possible funding cuts of 7, 11 and -- in the worst case -- 15 percent. "That prediction came a month ago," said Del.
A silent crowd of students and community members congregated in University Hall yesterday to observe the first anniversary of the Sept.
