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Only a week after her husband drew throngs to Soldiers and Sailors, Michelle Obama wooed a small crowd at Skibo Gymnasium on Wednesday. Skibo’s risers were packed with community members and students from many of Pittsburgh’s universities. The rally was staffed by volunteers from a number of Carnegie Mellon student organizations, including Carnegie Mellon Students for Barack Obama, Student Senate, AB Political Speakers, and College Democrats. Helping Students for Obama lead the crowd in cheers of “Ready to go” was Steve Sovern, a professional mediator from just outside of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, who got excited enough about the campaign to...

(This is a follow-up to http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1977792/posts) MOUNT PLEASANT, Mich. - A Central Michigan University student who used a video camera and a Web site to criticize an assistant professor running for Congress was issued a letter of reprimand. Dennis Lennox, a 23-year-old junior, said Wednesday he would appeal the finding that he violated school code. A conduct proceedings officer ruled that Lennox provided false information to a university official, identified himself as Dick Cheney to a professor and improperly posted fliers on hallway benches. Lennox said he wasn't able to defend himself because a secret disciplinary hearing was held during...

This is a follow-up to the ongoing controversy at Central Michigan University with conservative student Dennis Lennox, who has called on professor Gary Peters to pick between teaching students and running as a Democrat for Congress. This is unbelievable. For more, watch the local TV station's report: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLGpxrfPPSc CMU cancels Lennox hearing; bans student from future meeting By Nick Persons 02/28/2008 Dennis Lennox II's Central Michigan University disciplinary hearing will once again be rescheduled — this time because of a video camera. The CMU junior refused to turn off his camera when he entered the 1 p.m. hearing Wednesday, provoking...

Topinabee junior Dennis Lennox II is determined to make Griffin Endowed Chair Gary Peters choose between CMU and his run for Congress. In an effort to do so, Lennox and Michigan Republican Party Chairman Saulius Anuzis created a 7-foot-tall milk carton with a mock missing person profile of Gary Peters, which displayed his picture and the words "Have you seen me?" Under the description for Peters, the milk carton read "Liberal Lansing insider. Wanted to put slot machines in super markets. If found please contact Central Michigan (University) President Michael Rao 989-774-4000." The pair set up the display for about...

Dennis Lennox II said he filed a formal complaint Monday with the U.S. Department of Education alleging three Central Michigan University faculty violated his rights under the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act. Lennox also said he filed a criminal complaint with the Michigan State Police, accusing the faculty members of falsely and maliciously accusing another, malicious annoyance by writing and use of a computer program, computer system or computer network to commit a crime. Central Michigan Life has obtained copies of the education complaint and e-mails sent by assistant English language and literature professors Jeffrey Weinstock, Allegra Blake and...

(Follow up to http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1960770/posts) MOUNT PLEASANT -- Dennis G. Lennox II will have to wait to find out his fate at Central Michigan University. The university canceled today's scheduled hearing, which could have led to the expulsion of the outspoken student, because inclement weather forced officials to close the campus. Officials also postponed a December hearing for undisclosed reasons, Lennox said. "I haven't been notified yet if it has been rescheduled," Lennox said. "I hope the school would drop the matter and stop bullying me." The hearing stems from allegations that Lennox provided false information to a university official, did...

CMU rabble-rouser faces expulsion Posted by Justin Engel | The Saginaw News http://blog.mlive.com/saginawnews/2008/01/cmu_rabblerouser_faces_expulsi.html MOUNT PLEASANT -- Central Michigan University and an outspoken student are preparing to duel again. Dennis G. Lennox II said the college has scheduled a hearing that could lead to his expulsion. The session takes place at 8 a.m. Wednesday at the Bovee University Center. Officials canceled a December hearing for undisclosed reasons, Lennox said. The 23-year-old became a lightning rod after he launched a campaign against CMU educator and political candidate Gary C. Peters, who Lennox said should "pick either Congress or campus." The university hired...

A robotic car named Junior, programmed by Stanford computer scientists, finished slightly ahead of Boss, the robo-vehicle from Carnegie Mellon University, as half a dozen driverless vehicles made history by completing a 60-mile race over a city-like environment. But the real winner of this third and most difficult in a series of robo-races is probably the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, which sponsored the first of these events in 2004 to spur development of unmanned military vehicles. In all, 11 robotic vehicles set out on the race course Saturday morning, and while five scrubbed out for various reasons, the fact...

NCAA nixes nicknames Use of Native American mascots, logos banned in postseason play By MATTHEW B. MOWERY Sun Sports Writer In response to yet another outside body trying to influence whether or not Central Michigan University and other schools should employ Native American nicknames, the Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe issued a sharply-worded rebuke: Stay out of our business. Advertisement After the NCAA announced Friday afternoon that it would prohibit its member institutions from displaying mascots, nicknames or imagery during any of its 88 postseason championship tournaments, the Tribe issued a joint press release with CMU. The rich relationship that the...

BOISE, Idaho (AP) -- A longtime FBI agent who helped arrest infamous outlaw Claude Dallas has been sentenced to a year in prison for possessing child pornography. William Buie, 64, was sentenced Monday after pleading guilty in March. Buie told authorities that he learned to access child pornography Web sites while attending a seminar on preventing child exploitation in 2000 or 2001. A former FBI sniper who worked for about 30 years for the agency in Seattle, Washington, Salt Lake City, Utah, and Butte, Montana, Buie helped arrest Dallas in 1982 after the self-proclaimed mountain man spent a year on...

Call it the anti-Zionist trifecta. On March 14th Norman Finkelstein, DePaul University professor and author of such books as The Holocaust Industry and Beyond Chutzpah: On the Misuse of Anti-Semitism and the Abuse of History spoke at Pittsburgh’s Carnegie Mellon University. Sponsored by the Pittsburgh Palestinian Solidarity Committee, Mr. Finkelstein was actually the second anti-Israeli speaker the PSC brought onto campus. On February 3, the PSC welcomed Ali Abuminah, founder of the so-called “Electronic Intifada,” a website dedicated to promulgating information on Israel’s “37-year-old occupation” of Palestine. “You have to question what Arab students see in common between someone like...

<p>Carnegie Mellon University could reach an agreement next month to set up an undergraduate school in business and computer science in the Middle East. The move is part of the university's broad plan to establish a presence in key regions around the world. Officials in Qatar, a tiny sheikdom on the Persian Gulf, hope a pact with CMU will play a key role in building Education City, a modern version of ancient Alexandria, near its capital, Doha.</p>