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College student admits flushing Korans
A Russian-born college student in New York City has been sentenced to 300 hours of community service for dumping copies of the Koran into toilets.Stanislav Shmulevich, 23, pleaded guilty Monday to taking two copies of the book from a meditation room at Pac...

Admissions test focus of lawsuit
A Dallas-based college test-prep company countersued the College Board claiming it is trying to put the Texas company out of business.Karen Dillard, who owns and operates the Karen Dillard College Prep company, sued the College Board, based in New York, cl...

Texas students' SAT scores may be voided
SAT scores of some high school students in northern Texas could be thrown out because of a lawsuit against a college test-prep company.The Dallas-area Karen Dillard College Prep company is accused by the College Board of giving students a wrongful advantag...

SAT prep firm accused of pirating tests
A North Texas SAT prep company is being sued by the exam's maker for allegedly pirating tests protected by copyright.The outcome of the lawsuit could affect students who took classes through Karen Dillard's College Prep, which was sued in Dallas ...

Columbia says professor plagiarized
Columbia University's Teachers College says one of its professors plagiarized the writings of a former colleague and two former students.Madonna G. Constantine was found to have used others' work several times without attribution in papers she pu...

Body ID'd as missing college student
A body found in Reno, Nev., was identified Saturday as that of Brianna Denison, a University of Nevada student abducted almost a month ago.Reno police said Denison, 19, may have been the victim of a serial rapist responsible for two or three sexual assault...

Man identified as gunman had 'no record of trouble,' college official says
CHICAGO - On the Northern Illinois University campus, Stephen P. Kazmierczak, 27, was considered a gentle, hard-working student, who was honored two years ago with a dean's award for his sociology work. Professors who taught him said it was hard to imagine he was the same person authorities identified as the gunman in Thursday's classroom shootings.

Man identified as gunman had 'no record of trouble,' college official says
Just two years ago, Northern Illinois University honored Stephen Kazmierczak, whom authorities identified as the gunman in Thursday's classroom shooting, with a dean's award for his sociology work. Kazmierczak had established himself as an authority on prison systems, having co-authored a manuscript on self-injury in prison and the role of religion in the formation of early prisons in the United States. Both papers were written under the guidance of Jim Thomas, a professor emeritus at Northern Illinois University and a nationally renowned criminal-justice expert.

College journalists question dean's use of anonymous — and congratulatory — sources
CHICAGO - Journalists love to debate the use of anonymous sources, but the discussion this week at Northwestern University's journalism school is no hypothetical: the texts are published columns by the controversial dean of the school, John Lavine. Earlier this week, a columnist for The Daily Northwestern, a student newspaper, questioned the use of anonymous quotes in two introductory letters Lavine wrote last year for the Medill alumni magazine.