National College and University News

University of Pittsburgh

A University of Pittsburgh student studying in South Korea was found dead Sunday, March 17 in her Seoul motel room of unknown causes. Jamie Penich was in Seoul for the weekend with seven other students when she died.

New information from the Associated Press indicates that one of Penich's friends heard a loud and angry male voice coming from the victinf s room the night before she was found dead. Penich was in Korea as part of the International Exchange Program.

University of Michigan

According to a study done by the University of Michigan, many adolescents are abusing the drug Ritalin in order to study longer, party harder and suppress their appetites.

The drug is sold for about $3 to $5 a pill on the black market.

Abusers either consume Ritalin in pill form, crush the pill and snort it, or mix the pill with water and inject the concoction.

Harvard University

A Judge overturned a jury's decision Wednesday, March 21 that would have found Harvard University guilty of both gender discrimination and later retaliation against a lecturer in biomathematics at the Harvard School of Public Health.

The judge ruled that the defendant, Tamara Awerbuch-FriedJander, provided inadequate evidence of gender discrimination or of University retaliation after the grievance was made. California State Uni-