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Worker Hospitalized After Falling From University Of Oklahoma's Headington Hall

A roofing worker fell from the University of Oklahoma's Headington Hall at 9:15 a.m. Monday while working on a construction project, said a spokeswoman for Flintco, the construction firm working on the building.

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NewsOk.com

Fire Escapes Removed At U Of Oklahoma Building After Death

Workers at the University of Oklahoma have removed the fire escapes from an administrative building where a 22-year-old student fell to her death last week.

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AP via NewsOK.com

California Cops Who Jabbed Students 'May' Have Done Wrong

UC Berkeley police "may" have violated policies when they jabbed batons at defiant but peaceful students who set up their first Occupy encampment in November, says a tepidly worded report released Wednesday.

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The San Francisco Chronicle

UW System Audit Recommends More Background Checks For Employees Who Work With Minors

A new University of Wisconsin System audit recommends that university officials expand the use of background checks for employees who work with children.

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Wisconsin State Journal

Md. Cannibalism Case Raises Questions About Troubled Students

Following tragedies like the shootings at Virginia Tech in 2007 or the beating death of a University of Virginia lacrosse player Yeardley Love in 2010, campuses across the country — including Morgan — have developed intervention programs and threat assessment teams.

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The Baltimore Sun

Plagiarism Still a Major Problem

Behind the News
Tim Goral
University Business, June 2012

Plagiarism is a widespread problem, and with anytime, anywhere internet access, it only seems to get worse. As part of a study published last summer by The Pew Research Center and the Chronicle of Higher Education, more than half of 1,055 college presidents surveyed said they had seen a rise in plagiarism in the last 10 years. (Just 2 percent thought that it had decreased.)

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Reevaluating Reaction Policies

Behind the News
Kristen Domonell
University Business, June 2012

Ever since the University of California system was criticized for the campus police reaction to student protests in 2011—namely the use of pepper spray at UC Davis and batons at UC Berkeley—the system has been investigating and reevaluating its protest reaction policies.

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