Brown is not clean, Study-abroad program being investigated
New York’s attorney general Andrew Cuomo is currently investigating Brown’s study-abroad program as well as those of many other schools. Claims are being made that schools choose study-abroad partners based on personal motivation on school officials, i.e. bribes, and not on how much the program will eventually cost a student or other benefits of the program.
Not all schools being investigated are do to direct evidence of such ill doing, but instead due to connections with dirty corporations reports a clerk from the attorney general’s office.
Last week, the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in St. Louis sided with Washington University in a battle with Dr. Catalona. Catalona is one of the U.S.’s most prominent prostate cancer researchers and recently moved to Northwestern University. He and his patients requested the tissue samples from Washington University so that he can continue his work. Catalona v. Washington, 07-525 ensued and the Supreme Court sided with the lower courts in saying that the university owns all rights to the human tissue.
Today, both third place candidates running for the major parties withdrew their nominations leaving a Clinton-verse-Obama/ Romney-verse-McCain struggle in the remaining primaries. Upon Giuliani’s decision to withdraw, he immediately traveled to California to give support for his previous rival, John McCain–“John McCain is the most qualified candidate to be the next commander-in-chief of the United States.”