Student Assembly joined with several other campus organizations to sponsor the Live Campus concert series on Friday. The Assembly, Programming Board and Friday Night Rock, in conjunction with Millennium Campus Network and the Dartmouth Coalition for Global Health, held five performances as part of a nationwide effort to raise money for 12 charitable organizations, according to the Live Campus web site. Dartmouth's event raised approximately $1,500 to be donated to Partners in Health, a global health charity co-founded by Dartmouth president-elect Jim Yong Kim, according to Greg Knight '12, who helped to organized the event for the Assembly. Face AIDS, a California-based student AIDS activism group, has pledged to match the donation raised by the Dartmouth Live Campus event, organizer Uthman Olagoke '11 said. Around 350 people attended the concert, exceededing the organizers' original expectations, Knight said.
Ralph Slaughter, the president of Southern University, has filed multiple lawsuits against the university's current Board of Supervisors, as well as past and current members of the Board of Supervisors, according to The Advocate of Baton Rouge. In a lawsuit filed in a Louisiana state district court on April 2, Slaughter alleges that members of the Board of Supervisors secretly polled Board members prior to a meeting at which the Board voted not to renew Slaughter's contract, which would violate Louisiana open-meetings laws, The Advocate reported. Slaughter also submitted a second lawsuit in federal court the following day, alleging that some Board members had conspired to end his employment in retaliation for a 2007 lawsuit, to which Slaughter was a party, and in the process violated Slaughter's civil rights and obstructed justice.
Police have begun investigating hate mail sent to three professors and one former professor at Columbia University's Teachers College, according to the Columbia Spectator. Several faculty members received envelopes that contained images of a swastika, while an African-American professor received a picture of a noose, CNN reported. One of the recipients, Elizabeth Midlarsky, a Jewish professor of clinical psychology, was also targeted in 2007 when a swastika was spray-painted on her office door. Police have not said whether the two incidents are related, according to CNN.
