SANTA CRUZ >> Six UC Santa Cruz students brought traffic on Highways 1 and 17 to a standstill for hours after they chained themselves to bins filled with concrete and blocked three lanes of traffic for the better part of Tuesday. “The disruption was pretty massive,” California Highway Patrol officer Brad Sadek said, adding that […]
The University of Nebraska-Lincoln was voted out of the selective association of research universities in 2011. Now leaders are striving to make history as the first ex-member welcomed back. In 2011, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln made history and headlines for being the first institution kicked out of the Association of American Universities by a member vote. Established in 1900, the AAU had counted Nebraska as a member since 1909.
Flowers bloom in the front yard and line the path to a big metal gate. Strapped to its bars, a sign reads:NO TRESPASSING.Behind the gate, at the end of a long, winding driveway, sits a two-