It’s truly frightening how far someone can get by stealing another person’s identity. The Secret Service has reported the arrest near Chicago of Esther Reed, who is alleged to have assumed the identity of Brook Hensen, a South Carolina resident who has been missing for almost a decade. It is further alleged that Reed then [...]
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In a case that had highlighted racial tension in Cambridge, a former Harvard student entered a guily plea for involuntary manslaughter in the 2003 killing of a restaurant worker. Alexander Pring-Wilson was facing a third trial later this year after a previous successful appeal and subsequent mistrial due to a hung jury. As the Reuters [...]
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This is one of those cases where ever American university will take notice and change its degree verification procedures. It seems that a faculty member at a Korean university presented a forged Yale diploma to prove her credentials when she was hired. In a serious gaffe, Yale’s grad school that she was indeed a [...]
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Sure enough, Connecticut’s Freedom of Information Commission has ruled that Yale police records are open to public oversight. The logic here seems compelling, and this has been the reality at public university campuses for years.
Police agencies with full arrest powers cannot carry out their business in secret.
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Two Chicago teenagers are facing charges in connection with a series of crimes around the university campus. These incidents include the November murder of a graduate student, Amadou Cisse.
Another individual has been charged in conjunction with the crime spree, while two others not identified by the police have not been charged.
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A Princeton University student has been accused by township police of making false reports of physical and cyber attacks. As reported in the Washington Post and widely elsewhere, the student first indicated that these attacks were provoked by his conservative views. He later recanted that story, admitting that his facial scratches were self-inflicted and the [...]
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