Yale lab technician Raymond Clark III pled not guilty to the murder of Yale graduate student Annie Le in a hearing at the New Haven Superior Court on Tuesday, the Yale Daily News reported. In addition to murder, prosecutors charged Clark with felony murder, according to the Yale Daily News. The jury could find Clark guilty of felony murder even if it determines he killed Le unintentionally, as long as the prosecution proves Clark killed Le while committing another felony, such as kidnapping. During the hearing, Clark waived his right to a probable cause hearing, which would have required the prosecution to demonstrate it has sufficient evidence to charge Clark, the Yale Daily News reported.
The size of the gender gap among American college students is beginning to level out, according to a study conducted by the American Council on Education. For the 2007-2008 academic year, 46 percent of college students below the age of 24 were male, according to Inside Higher Ed. The figure has remained roughly constant since the 1999-2000 school year, when the same figure was reported. The only place the gender gap still appears to be increasing is in the Hispanic population, where a growing percentage of college students are female. Forty-two percent of Latino college students nationwide were male during the 2007-2008 academic year, while 45 percent were male in 1999-2000, Inside Higher Ed reported. Hispanic women are also more likely to receive their bachelor's degree than their male counterparts, the study found.
John Yoo, a former U.S. Justice Department official who was widely criticized for providing legal advice that allegedly allowed the federal government to justify torture, is teaching a class this semester at the University of California at Berkeley despite attacks that he is unfit to teach law, Inside Higher Ed reported Tuesday. Unlike most other courses at the University, the physical location of Yoo's class is only available to students enrolled in the course, according to Inside Higher Ed. The "secret" location of the class has prevented those who wish to protest the class from attending it, according to Inside Higher Ed. Yoo told Above the Law, a legal blog, that any protesters who wish to attend his class should apply to be students at the law school.
