New York and Massachusetts police arrested 23-year-old Jason Aquino on Thursday in connection with the shooting and murder of a Cambridge, Mass. resident in a Harvard University dormitory, The Harvard Crimson reported Friday. Neither the victim nor the suspects are Harvard students. Aquino was the third man arrested in connection with the crime. Aquino was charged with first degree murder and three other crimes for his alleged role in the May 13 murder of Justin Cosby, a suspected drug dealer, which followed what officials believe was a failed drug theft, according to media reports. Aquino plead not guilty to all charges, The Crimson reported. Two other suspects were previously arrested for their alleged involvement, one of whom voluntarily surrendered to police after the murder.
A lawsuit between the New Jersey Institute of Technology and its former alumni association, now the New Jersey Tech Alumni Association, has been scheduled for a court hearing this month, according to a report by the Associated Press. The lawsuit follows several years of conflict between the alumni association and the school, which began when the school decided to replace the alumni center with a student center, the AP reported. The alumni association filed an original lawsuit in 2008 after NJIT notified the association that it intended to sever ties and create a new alumni association using the group's name, but lost the case in September 2008. The current lawsuit centers on the group's new name, which the institute claims is still too close to the original name, the Alumni Association of the New Jersey Institute of Technology, according to the AP.
An inquiry by the University of Texas at Brownsville found that 14 students and six university employees exploited the University's Blackboard course-management system to procure answers to test questions, The Chronicle of Higher Education reported Monday. Students who worked in the Office of Distance Education, which controls the University's Blackboard system, told investigators they stole copies of tests for personal use and to sell to other students from the Blackboard database, according to The Chronicle. Although no charges were filed, the 14 students involved have already been sanctioned for academic misconduct.
