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Author: Holly O'Donnell

Two students killed in separate violent attacks

The University of North Carolina's (UNC) student body president was found dead in a Chapel Hill neighborhood on March 5. Meanwhile, police from Auburn University were still busy investigating the death of a student, found just off campus on Tuesday. The deaths have been reported as unrelated.

According to The Daily Tar Heel, UNC senior Eve Carson's body was recovered around 5 a.m. Wednesday morning when police responded to screaming and noises of shooting just off campus. It appears Carson received several shots with at least one to the right temple. She was not identified, however, until her friends reported her missing early Thursday morning. Police have released photos of suspect taken by a security camera as he attempted to use Carson's ATM card.

Auburn Freshman Lauren Burk was found shot on the side of a highway just north of the Auburn campus Tuesday night around 9 p.m., The Auburn Plainsman reported. She later died of her wounds,

Students gathered for vigil services to remember their classmates Wednesday and Thursday nights. Courtney Lockhart was arrested on March 7 in connection with Burk's death. He has since been charged with capital murder during a kidnapping, capital murder during a robbery and capital murder during an attempted rape.
-U.S.News and World Report


Special gym hours irk many Harvard students

Harvard University's decision to close one of its gyms for six hours a week to accommodate Muslim women has drawn the ire and scorn from many both inside and outside of the community.

The concerns arose from both cultural and religious concerns of six women, who approached the administration about special gym hours.

Hussein Ibish, executive director of the Foundation for Arab-American Leadership said a small minority of women want to exercise privately.

"This modesty business sometimes comes from religion, sometimes from culture," Ibish said on NBC's "The Today Show." "They just don't want to be ogled by men when they're working out."

The university said it will reexamine the policy at the end of the semester.
-MSNBC


Student sues Wheaton College in tuition case

Wheaton alumna, Jennifer Bombasaro-Brady, returned to campus to encourage the student government to ask the state attorney general to research the college's policies towards tuition while students are studying abroad.

Bombasaro-Brady spent a semester abroad in South Africa, and was forced to pay the full Wheaton tuition, room and board for that semester even though her program cost over $4,000 less. She argued that it is unfair that she had to pay the college as if she was living in her dorm room, when, in reality, she was living without many modern-day conveniences.

The college defends its policy by pointing out that all students pay the same tuition regardless of whether they are taking expensive courses for the college or cheaper ones. The college's policy also allows them to award students financial aid for their semester abroad, Wheaton argues.

The New York and Connecticut attorney generals are also looking into how colleges administer their study-abroad programs.
-Chicago Maroon