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	october 29, 2007
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	Ideas start flowing: Task force updates public on steps university is taking to reduce water use during drought
	Callan, national authority on higher education, to deliver annual Louise McBee Lecture
	Peabody-Smithgall Lecture to examine media, democracy
	Campaign for Charities seeks greater employee participation
	Roosevelt to speak as part of annual Policy Day at School of Social Work
	Speaker: Real change comes from involvement
	The ‘write’ solution: English professor's year of study leads to new ways to spur student writing
	Grant will be used to explore exposure at waste sites
	Ginter named permanent director of Division of Academic Enhancement
	‘All-around good spirit’ honored at Appreciation Day
	Woman’s Club scholarship recipient
	Recycling questions
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University of California receives $450,000 fine for anthrax leak
The University of California will have to pay $450,000 in fines after a shipment of anthrax from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory leaked, the Chronicle of Higher Education reported.

The university received the largest of 11 fines that have been issued by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services since 2003. Certain agents, like anthrax, are federally regulated because of their potential to be used as weapons. The university’s fine came just as Congress was holding a hearing about the safety of the country’s biodefense facilities.

Colorado State University editor won’t be fired for using the ‘F-word’
After sparking a national debate by using the “F-word” in an editorial about President George W. Bush, the editor of Colorado State University’s student newspaper will keep his job, the Denver Post reported.

The university’s Board of Student Communications only cited J. David McSwane, editor of the Rocky Mountain Collegian, for violating two parts of the school’s ethics code: using profanity and exhibiting poor judgment in how the article was written. The editorial sparked nationwide disputes about whether McSwane had overstepped his First Amendment rights.

—Katie Dunn

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