Sit-in for Northeastern University institute
ends
BOSTON “”mdash; Demonstrators ended their 39-day long
occupational protest of the John D. O’Bryant African American
Institute on Monday and announced the formation of a new
organization “to ensure the issues surrounding the Institute
don’t die on the table,” according to Northeastern
University student leaders, the Northeastern News reported.
On Monday, Northeastern University sophomore activist Justin
Brown equated the ceasing of sit-ins and the creation of the Black
Student Empowerment Coalition to “an end and a rebirth”
of a movement.
The sit-in was the result of the university’s plans to
tear down the existing Leon Street building to replace it with a
larger, 150,000 square-foot multi-use structure. The new
multi-faceted facility will include about the same space as the
current Institute.
Bill would automatically register males for
draft
RIVERSIDE, Calif. “”mdash; A bill that would automatically
register 18- through 26-year-old males for the draft is making its
way through the California State Assembly, the Highlander
reported.
The Selective Service Registration bill, AB 1572, is designed to
raise the number of registered men in selective services, said Bill
Bird, communications director for Assemblyman Mike Briggs,
R-Fresno.
If passed, all males between ages 18 and 26 will be
automatically registered for the draft when they apply for a
driver’s license or California identification card.
“If (people) failed to register for selective service
between this age range, they will be locked out of all federal and
some state jobs and will be denied federal financial aids and
student loans,” Bird said.
Washington researchers test possible HIV
vaccine
SEATTLE “”mdash; Nine years ago Paul Verano lost his partner to a
devastating disease which remains an epidemic in the United States
and worldwide ““ AIDS, The Daily reported.
Now Verano works as a recruitment coordinator for a study
searching for a vaccine to save millions of others from the same
fate.
Researchers at the University of Washington Medical
Center’s HIV Prevention Trials Unit, including Verano, are
currently in the advanced stages of testing one AIDS vaccine. If
all goes well, the vaccine may be approved and marketable by this
time next year.
The vaccine, known as gp120, is a protein located on the outer
coating of the HIV virus. The treatment works by teaching the
immune system to recognize the virus as foreign. This way the body
can either rid itself of the disease or live with the virus while
keeping it in check.
One-third of criminal justice faculty to
resign
BOSTON “”mdash; Northeastern University’s College of
Criminal Justice will lose more than one-third of its full-time
faculty members by the end of the academic year.
Some of those teachers are at odds with the college’s
decisions, the Northeastern News reported.
Jack Greene, dean of the college, has received letters of
resignation from five of the 13 full-time faculty members at the
college. All five will leave at the end of the school year,
according to Greene.
Professor Michael Buerger attributes two reasons for his
departure at the end of this year ““ the direction of the
college and the lack of faculty input in the decisions made by the
college.
Compiled from University Wire reports.