Proposed law will ban guns on Maryland campuses

A proposed law in Maryland would ban guns, knives and other deadly weapons from college campuses in the state, The Diamondback at the University of Maryland reported.

Currently, an existing state law bans weapons from K-12 public schools, but the proposed Weapon-Free Higher Education Zones bill would extend that ban to college campuses.

University Police spokesman Paul Dillon said in the article the bill would improve safety on the University of Maryland's campus while College Republicans president Chris Banerjee said it would prevent students from protecting themselves.

Those who oppose the law say it violates the Constitution's second
amendment.

"I think that the second amendment guarantees the right of law-abiding
people to own firearms," Banerjee said. "The Constitution doesn't stop at the border of Route 1 and the University of Maryland."

Al-Quds University and Brad College create joint college

Al-Quds University in East Jerusalem and Brad College in New York will establish a joint college called The Al-Quds Bard Honors College for Liberal Arts and Sciences, The Chronicle of Higher Education reported.

The joint college will be based on the model Bard created with St. Petersburg University in Russia ten years ago. The college will open in September 2009 on the Al-Quds campus and plans to accept 100 new students each year. Sixty students have already enrolled for next fall.

The two colleges are also working to create a joint high school on the
Al-Quds campus as well that is expected to open in fall 2010. "Al-Quds and Bard College are initiating partnerships with public schools in the West Bank and Jerusalem representing different models of student learning," Bard said.

Building stands unfinished at the University of Colorado

A $63 million building at the University of Colorado at Boulder remains
unfinished, The Daily Camera reported.

"We've got a gigantic concrete shell of a building at the heart of our
campus," Colorado University spokesman Bronson Hilliard said. "It's
important we complete it."

Work has halted due to a state construction freeze last fall. The state had allocated $18.47 million to the construction of the building, but because of the freeze, the University will not receive the funding.

Once completed, the 170,000-square-foot building will contain the Art
Museum and the department of art and art history.