ST. LOUIS, May 16 (UPI) -- Hundreds of graduates turned their backs on conservative leader Phyllis Schlafly Friday Washington University in St. Louis gave her an honorary degree.
OAKLAND, Calif., Jan. 21 (UPI) -- A California court has ruled that universities in the state cannot punish students for failing to be "civil" because the term is too broad.
YELLOW SPRINGS, Ohio, Nov. 6 (UPI) -- Flush with an initial outburst of emergency fundraising , Antioch College's Board of Trustees has voted not to close next spring after all.
PORT CHESTER, N.Y., Dec. 16 (UPI) -- The U.S. Justice Department has filed a lawsuit against a suburban New York village, charging its at-large voting system illegally limits Hispanic influence.
WASHINGTON, July 9 (UPI) -- The Loudon County, Va., Board of Supervisors and public library trustees may be headed for a showdown over stocking R-rated DVDs on library shelves.
FOREST GROVE, Ore., Sept. 7 (UPI) -- KISS guitarist Tommy Thayer may "rock and roll all night," but he's making time during the day to sit on the board of an Oregon liberal arts college.
MIAMI, Jan. 28 (UPI) -- Plans to set up the nation's first chiropractic college at a public university have been killed by the Florida Board of Governors.
LOS ANGELES, Feb. 26 (UPI) -- The American Film Institute Board of Trustees Thursday presented Jack Valenti the AFI Charlton Heston Award in Los Angeles.
BOSTON, Oct. 31 (UPI) -- Boston University will pay $1.8 million to their president-designate as severance pay from a post he never filled, the New York Times reported.
TAMPA, Fla., March 6 (UPI) -- Derrick Brooks, who was Defensive Player of the Year in 2002, has been made a member of the Board of Trustees at Florida State, his alma mater.