What was supposed to be a basketball season with the possibility of a first-ever trip to the NCAA Tournament has taken a turn for the worst. Senior forward Kevin Coble announced that he would not play this season and instead opt for surgery to repair a fracture in his left foot. And the team’s other senior leaders aren’t faring well either: Forward Jeff Ryan will miss the season with a torn ACL and guard Jeremy Nash disclosed that he is suffering from irregular breathing. Looks like it’s time for the younger players to step up. [The Daily]
The New York Times’ David Carr is the latest to cover the Medill Innocence Project’s square-off against Cook County prosecutors. In a column appearing on the front page of the Times business section, Carr writes dramatically that when NU lawyers respond to the prosecutors’ argument that the students weren’t yet journalists at the time, at odds “will be who is actually a journalist and, not so incidentally, what remains of one man’s life.” [New York Times]
Not noticing much diversity among your professors? That’s because NU’s faculty is severely lacking in black, Hispanic and Native-American members, according to the latest NU diversity report. With the topic of race currently on center stage, we hope it’s not long until Morty gets serious about increasing minority groups among the faculty. [The Daily]
Imagine sitting in a room with twenty other prisoners in Cook County jail, some drug dealers and others murderers, taking a course on multiculturalism taught by an NU professor. That’s essentially what a new program at Wesleyan University is offering to prisoners at the nearby Cheshire Correctional Institution. The education isn’t the only thing similar to the university experience though. Acceptance letters went out to only 16% of the inmates; that’s about 10% lower than NU’s acceptance rate last year. [NBN]
