College shorts college security, gender study

Author: Zamir Ahmed

The Citadel to install dormitory locks

In response to the shootings at Virginia Tech last week, Charleston, S.C.-based military college The Citadel will install locks on all cadet rooms by next semester in an effort to increase student safety. The installation of locks breaks with the college's tradition, which is based on the sparseness of military life and the school's honor code.

The proposal to install locks on all residential doors had been under discussion before the Virginia Tech tragedy. According to school officials, the shootings highlighted the need for locks to protect students, as well as to protect the college from legal action.

Currently, male cadets do not have locks on their room doors. Female cadets have locks on the inside of their doors.

The Citadel's Board of Visitors, which is responsible for the direction and supervision of the college, approved the installation of locks at its regularly-scheduled weekend meeting. It is estimated that installing locks on all barracks doors will cost the college $125,000.

-CNN.com


Study finds gender wage gaps emerge early

A recently released study by the American Association of University Women Educational Foundation found that a pay gap exists between females and males only one year after graduation. The study also found that the gap in wages widens after multiple years in the work force.

The study found that women make only 80 percent of the salaries of their male counterparts after only one year after college graduation. After 10 years in the work force, women on average earned only 69 percent of what their male peers made.

Despite taking into account factors such as hours, occupation and parenthood, the study found that one-quarter of the wage gap could not be explained. The group speculated that the gap was the result of gender discrimination.

The study also found that, on average, a woman's salary did not accurately reflect her level of education. Although females average a marginally higher grade point average than males in every major, according to the study women who attend highly selective colleges have the same salaries as males who attend less-selective colleges.

≠-MSNBC.com


BU student arrested for shooting-related threats

A part-time Boston University (BU) student was banned from campus on April 19 after pleading not guilty to charges stemming from threats he allegedly made regarding recreating the Virginia Tech shootings.

Twenty-year-old Andrew Rosenblum, who is enrolled at the BU-affiliated Metropolitan College, allegedly sent online instant messages to a Wheelock College student he dated in 2005, purportedly threatening to kill her and her friends just hours after the shootings in Blacksburg, Va.

Rosenblum was arraigned on three counts of threatening to commit a crime at the Roxbury Division of the Boston Municipal District Court on April 19. He was released after posting a $50,000 bail.

Rosenblum is being monitored by a 24-hour GPS monitoring device and is under house arrest. In addition to not being allowed on the BU campus, he is prohibited from entering Wheelock premises and from contacting the people he allegedly threatened. He will return to court on June 13 for a pre-trial conference.

-The Daily Free Press