March 29, 2011 - 8:05pm
In Other Ivory Towers: Cornell's chapter of Sigma Alpha Epsilon kicked off campus
BY LIANA ROSENBLOOM
Cornell University’s chapter of Sigma Alpha Epsilon will be removed from campus after new information surfaced surrounding the death of Cornell University sophomore George Desdunes, according to a March 18 article in The Cornell Daily Sun.
Susan Murphy, Cornell’s vice president of Student and Academic Services, told The Cornell Daily Sun that Desdunes was given alcohol by his brothers at SAE. The alcohol is believed to have played a part in Desdunes's death.
"Even though the members and associate members recognized the condition Desdunes was in, they failed to call for medical care,” Murphy said in the article.
Desdunes’ death is under investigation and SAE fraternity members have been given until the end of the month to leave their house on campus, the article states.
University of Colorado student government member resigns due to blog controversy
University of Colorado graduate student Matthew Cucchiaro resigned from his position as diversity director of the university’s student government as a result of a controversial blog, according to a March 18 article in the CU Independent.
Cucchiaro’s blog, stupidhumanbeings.com, was intended to be satirical, the CU Independent reported. Several posts contained derisive comments toward women and those of African descent.
“The women article was more of a political statement, a social statement about kind of the jock mentality of stereotyping women, where a woman is stupider than a man,” Cucchiaro told the CU Independent.
Cucchiaro started the blog in 2009 and resigned from his student government position on March 4 after an anonymous source led the Dean of Students to question Cucchiaro as the author, according to the article.
Northwestern prof. no longer teaching investigative journalism class
David Protess, a professor of journalism at Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, was suddenly relieved of his post as the professor of an investigative journalism class for unknown reasons, according to a March 17 article in the Daily Northwestern.
Protess has been a professor of journalism for 29 years at Northwestern University and leads the Medill Innocence Project, a program that allows students to explore wrongful convictions. He will continue to head the project, though its future is uncertain, as it was closely related to Protess’s investigative journalism course, the article states.
