An Amherst College student was killed and three others were injured in a car crash on Interstate 91 Sunday, according to MassLive.com. Edward G. Prevatt, Jordan A. Moore-Fields, Matthew C. Ghiden and Christian J. Garris were returning to Amherst after visiting a friend in Baltimore when Prevatt's 1996 Honda Accord entered the median and flipped, MassLive.com reported. Moore-Fields was transported to Baystate Medical Center in Springfield, Mass., where he later died. The other passengers were treated at Baystate for non-life-threatening injuries. The cause of the crash remains unknown, but is currently being investigated by the Massachusetts State Police Collision Analysis and Reconstruction Section and the State Police Crime Scene Services Section. Northbound I-91 was closed for approximately three hours due to the accident.
Several prominent colleges and universities have unveiled a plan to create a backup system for books scanned into Google Books, The Chronicle of Higher Education reported Monday. The project, known as HathiTrust, will create an online shared collection of all the books scanned into Google Books should Google ever cease operating the service, according to The Chronicle. Currently, HathiTrust has more than two million books originally scanned by Google. "This is a commitment to the permanence of materials," John P. Wilkin, an associate university librarian for the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor and executive director of HathiTrust, told The Chronicle. Due to copyright laws, however, most of the books acquired by HathiTrust cannot be offered in their entirety to students outside of their campus libraries. At this time, the only way to access HathiTrust is through search engines at participating university libraries.
Former Columbia University psychology professor Madonna Constantine, whose discovery of a noose dangling from her door gained media attention last fall, has filed a lawsuit against Columbia, claiming that she was unjustly fired due to false allegations of plagiarism, the New York Daily News reported Oct. 10. Constantine, formerly a professor at Teachers College, Columbia's education graduate school, is seeking reinstatement with the university. The suit, filed in Manhattan Supreme Court, asserts that Constantine was the target of two colleagues who falsely claimed that she copied from others' work and took credit for the research. Constantine maintains that she was the victim of "extreme bias" when her case went under review, according to the Daily News.
