Volume 27, Issue 3, August 26, 2004

News Briefs

Riots plague first week of school
FORT COLLINS—Five students were suspended from CSU after being arrested during two nights of rioting in the streets of Fort Collins.
There will be no waiting for CSU officials. The school has already decided the five students violated the conduct codes of the university.

While the permanent fate of the five looms, the most severe case could face expulsion. Hearings may start as early as this week.

The five CSU students facing expulsion are Michael Griek, 21, Sean A. Kleker, 21, Nicholas Anthony Lofaro, 20, Kyle Douglas Morse, 22, Christopher Keely Picardi, 20.

-Rocky Mountain News

U.S. revokes visa from Muslim scholar
SOUTH BEND, Ind.—The Department of Homeland Security and the U.S. government has revoked the work visa of a Muslim professor who had been asked to teach at the University of Notre Dame.

Tariq Ramadan, who has been criticized for links to Islamic militants, was supposed to begin teaching on Tuesday, the first day of the Fall semester. He is a Swiss citizen.

State Department spokeswoman Kelly Shannon cited the Immigration and Nationality Act, part of which deals with aliens who have used a “position of prominence within any country to endorse or espouse terrorist activity.”

-AP

- Compiled by Nick Garcia

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