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A few days ago we linked to a story (and video) about a snowball fight at East Carolina University that ended in an arrest and the use of pepper spray by campus cops.
Now the East Carolinian, ECU’s student newspaper, has its coverage up, and their piece is a well-written, thorough one. Ties up a lot of the loose ends that the national media left hanging.
I know it’s a small story, but this piece really is a reminder of what the student press is for.
The University of Michigan has completed its investigation of a professor who paid a student for sex and allegedly assaulted her.
As we reported at the time, a Michigan law student told police last December that Yaron Eliav, an associate professor in the Department of Near Eastern Studies, had struck her with his hand and a belt in the course of a sexual encounter they had arranged through Craigslist.
Police refused to arrest Eliav, who claimed the acts were consensual, for assault, instead charging both student and professor with misdemeanor offenses relating to the exchange of money for sex. Both were ultimately fined and charged court costs.
A university spokesperson told the Ann Arbor News last week that Eliav is currently on paid leave, and that an internal investigation of his role in the incident has been completed. She refused to comment on the outcome of the investigation, or to say what administrative actions, if any, had been taken against Eliav, who has tenure.
A story out of Kansas puts a spin on the taser controversy that we haven’t seen before.
This Wednesday the student government at Pittsburg State University passed a resolution calling for campus police to be outfitted with tasers. The resolution passed by a vote of 12-6.
The question of giving tasers to campus cops is not currently under consideration at the university, and the head of the PSU police was noncommittal when asked his opinion.
PSU police are currently equipped with steel batons and 9 mm pistols.
Campus cops at East Carolina University tackled and arrested one student and used pepper spray on others while breaking up a snowball fight earlier this week.
Several hundred ECU students joined the melee after a freak snowstorm hit the Greenville, NC campus on Tuesday, and the cops attempted unsuccessfully to reach dormitory staff and team coaches before intervening directly.
The arrested student had apparently hit a police officer in the back with a snowball.
(Hat tip to Joey Coleman, who passed along the story via Twitter.)
Update: Video of the arrest has found its way to YouTube:
About four hundred Greek police officers gathered in Athens on Thursday to the strains of the Beatles song “Let It Be, “carrying a banner that read “No To Violence.”
“We are protesting because we are part of society,” one officer said. “Violence against the Greek police is violence against Greek society. We’re against any kind of violence.”
Student and youth riots have convulsed Greece since the December police shooting of fifteen-year-old Alexandros Grigoropoulos.
The Thursday police rally took place not long before one thousand students staged their own protest in central Athens. Although some of those protesters threw rocks and oranges at police, there was no police response and the march ended without violence or arrests.
studentactivism.net 
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