The quick and dirty about what's been going on around the Ancient Eight (and some other schools too).

At Yale, a postdoctoral fellow Vajinder P. S. Toor was shot and killed outside his Branford, Conn. home on Monday morning. According to The Yale Daily News, Branford police have arrested Lishan Wang, a Chinese national from Beijing, who was arraigned in New Haven Superior Court on Tuesday. Officials said they believe there was a connection between the alleged murderer and the victim from a previous employment situation unrelated to Yale.

Owen Thomas, a junior at Penn’s Wharton School—a defensive end for the Penn football team and a 2009 All-Ivy player—was found dead Monday afternoon in his apartment off-campus, according to The Daily Pennsylvanian. A vigil was held Thursday night for Thomas. The Daily Pennsylvanian reported that he committed suicide.

Also at Penn, Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. will offer the commencement address to the graduates of Penn’s School of Social Policy and Practice on May 17. As an added bonus, Biden’s daughter, Ashley B. Biden, will receive her diploma at the ceremony.

In the wake of two student deaths resulting from heroin overdose, administrators at Reed College in Oregon received an ultimatum from state officials to confront the drug problem. Some commentators feel that Reed is being scapegoated for a drug problem that is by no means limited to its campus, but, in the meantime, Reed administrators are doing what they can to ensure the safety of their students.