University Police have swept the Health Services building at 4:10 and reopened it after determining a bomb threat was not credible, according to the NIU Web site.
An alert regarding a bomb threat was posted on the NIU homepage at 2:18 p.m.

Some 350 registered media outlets have swarmed the Virginia Tech campus and the town of Blacksburg, according to Chris Clough, director of marketing and strategic communications. Some Virginia Tech students have expressed their sentiment toward the media through hand-made signs reading “Virginia Tech stay strong, media stay away.” Others are less resistant to the media’s presence.

Two crocodiles living in U. Miami’s Lake Osceola have been making unusually bold appearances, including emerging out of the water, occasionally on pedestrian walkways. Last February, a crocodile took an evening stroll on a university sidewalk before engaging in a violent confrontation with another crocodile.

College newspaper editorial boards paused to remember and reflect on the Virginia Tech tragedy on its one-year anniversary.

A Duke student’s participation in last Wednesday’s pro-Tibet and pro-China protests has led to retaliation against the student and her family and has attracted international attention.

As international attention on the situation between Tibet and China has increased over the past few weeks while China prepares for the Olympics, a Cornell anthropology professor was the subject of personal attacks posted to two University listservs last week in response to a film screening and discussion she organized on “the prospects for peace in Tibet.”