Faculty committee wants detailed vitae
By Piper Huddleston
Staff Reporter

Not all faculty members support a plan to include more information about teaching performance on faculty vitae, résumés with an academic focus, Gregg Franzwa, a member of the Faculty Senate’s Tenure, Promotion and Grievance committee, said Wednesday.
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Instructor evaluations may take on new form
By Kristin Campbell
Staff Reporter

A shortened, standardized teacher evaluation form could replace the 13 different existing forms in an effort to encourage students to write more comments and provide a university benchmark that all professors can be compared to, Mike Sacken, chairman of the university evaluation committee and education professor, said Monday.
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Parents press universities to assume responsibility
By Elise Rambaud
Associate Campus Editor

In 1874, parents of AddRan Male and Female Academy students were advised to deposit student spending money with the treasurer of the Board of Trustees to avoid extravagance and wasteful spending. According to the annual catalogue, parents were warned that some students could be trusted with their own personal finances, but others could not.
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Administrators may be back in classrooms
By Jacque Petersell
Staff Reporter

Administrators may be asked to teach at least one course a semester to alleviate faculty shortages and to share their expertise in the classroom.
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More anthrax cases confirmed
CBS employee, N.J. postal worker bring total of infected people to six
By David Espo
Associated Press

WASHINGTON — A CBS employee who opens Dan Rather’s mail and a postal worker in New Jersey were added Thursday to the troubling roster of Americans infected with anthrax. As many as three more people reported telltale skin lesions that may signify additional cases.
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Database to monitor foreign students underway in Boston
By Sabine Eckle
The Daily Free Press

BOSTON (U-WIRE) — With little more than a mouse click, government officials, including the FBI, will soon be able to access personal information about international students attending school in the United States.
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Bush meets with Chinese president in Shanghai
By Ron Fournier
Associated Press

SHANGHAI, China — President Bush met with Chinese President Jiang Zemin on Friday, hoping to bolster Beijing’s support for the U.S.-led anti-terrorism coalition and stem concern in Asia about U.S. military strikes against Afghanistan.
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Smallpox a valid bioterrorism threat
By Lauran Neergaard
Associated Press

WASHINGTON — Even a single case of smallpox would be an international emergency triggering vaccinations initially for dozens of people close to the patient while detectives traced every step the victim had taken for weeks, says a federal plan obtained by The Associated Press.
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Bin Laden followers receive life sentences
By Tom Hays
Associated Press

NEW YORK — Four Osama bin Laden disciples convicted in the 1998 bombings of two U.S. embassies in Africa were sentenced to life without parole Thursday in a city still reeling from last month’s terrorist attacks.
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UT ordered to pay $1 million in Hopwood case
By Celina Moreno
Daily Texan

AUSTIN (U-WIRE) — Almost a decade after Cheryl Hopwood and three other white plaintiffs sued the University of Texas-Austin to fight affirmative action, the Hopwood case seems to be taking its last breath.
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