The resolution does not require that professors turn over profits they make when their colleagues at Cornell assign their books. Typically, professors receive 10 to 15 percent of the price of the first 5000 books sold, with increasing royalties for more books sold.
Six professors in Cornell's history department and seven in the government department have assigned their own books this semester, The Sunreported.
The issue will be resolved at a future meeting of the University Assembly. BROWN
Easy Come, Easy Go
What would you do if $25,000 mysteriously appeared in your bank account? Philip Strasos, a senior at Brown University knew what to do. He spent most of it.
Unfortunately for Strasos, Providence's Citizen Bank discovered its September accounting error while Brown students were away on Christmas break. When the senior returned to Rhode Island from his native Greece late month, he was welcomed by police with a warrant for his arrest, The Brown Daily Herald reported.
Police charged Strasos with obtaining money under false pretenses, but said the charge would likely be dropped if Strasos would repay the bank.
Strasos said he spent most of the $25,000--including a reported $6000 for a used Alfa Romeo--because he thought his parents had wired it to him from Greece. In fact, they had wired him only $4000 in September.
"If I believed that the money was not mine, I would not have used it to start with," Strasos told the Providence Journal.
"I'm just going to give [the money] back over the weekend to repay the bank and the error is going to be rectified," he said. PRINCETON
Princeton to Assess State of Humanities
Departing Princeton President William G. Bowen has appointed a committee to assess the strength of the humanities at the university and the effectiveness of distribution requirements in ensuring that all students receive a humanistic background.
The committee will submit a report this spring possibly recommending changes in Princeton's system of distribution requirements, The Daily Princetonian reported.
The committee will also address such issues as the lack of contact between freshmen and faculty and the small number of students who take courses dealing with cultures outside of our own.