HEC/News: Alcohol, Other Drug, and Violence-Related Incidents

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In order to streamline our process and minimize the number of
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duplicative stories we post, the Higher Education Center compiles news
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reports concerning college student alcohol, other drug, and
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violence-related incidents. The following contains a summary of an
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incident and offers a Web site URL where more detailed accounts of what
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occurred can be found.
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"[A University of Pennsylvania] junior...has sued the Alpha Phi Alpha
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fraternity and two of its members because, he says, they beat and
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branded him in a hazing incident six months ago, according to a report
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released today by the Associated Press..."
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"At least five College Misericordia athletes will be suspended for a
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minimum of one game after they were arrested at an underage drinking
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party late Saturday evening..."
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"Women in Cambridge are on high alert after a man sexually assaulted a
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student in a lounge at Lesley College..."
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"An effort by the Wheeling Police Department to curb underage drinking
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on Saturday resulted in citations for 23 Wheeling Jesuit University
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students, and a city bar may face charges. Now, police are working to
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determine whether an ambitious party organizer at the school will be
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charged in the incident..."
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"A North Liberty man who pleaded guilty of beating a man in 2004 with a
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brick has been charged with the stabbing and bludgeoning deaths of two
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18-year-old women..."
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"A Georgetown lacrosse player charged with simple assault in November
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with two students from other universities - including a Duke lacrosse
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player recently indicted on rape charges - will have charges dropped
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pending fulfillment of an agreement he entered last month..."
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"Police confirmed Monday that the 21-year-old [Northwest Arkansas
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Community College] woman found dead in her apartment Saturday was the
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victim of a homicide..."
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"One of Princeton University's fraternity-like eating clubs is
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instituting stricter rules amid reports of problems including a possible
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sex-related crime..."
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"The man who broke the jaw of a black college student, provoking a
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metro-wide discussion on race relations and hate crimes received a
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10-year prison sentence Friday..."
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"A vice president of the University of Connecticut's Pi Kappa Alpha
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fraternity chapter was charged Thursday with selling drugs and phony
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driver's licenses, police say..."
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To read this week's and previous week's stories, go to
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http://www.edc.org/hec/news/hecnews/incidents/.
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HEC/News is a service provided by the U.S. Department of Education
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Higher Education Center for Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse and Violence
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Prevention. Through its Office of Safe and Drug-Free Schools, the
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Department funds the Center under Contract Number ED-04-CO-0137.
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violence issues in higher education, and is not a discussion list. Negative
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