Donor Woes

THE CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION, Sept. 27 — A civil lawsuit filed by the Securities and Exchange Commission this month alleges that L. Dennis Kozlowski, the former head of Tyco International Ltd., donated company money in his own name to Seton Hall University, his alma mater.

Kozlowski — a Seton Hall alumnus and a member of its board — and two other former executives were also indicted on criminal charges that allege they used Tyco as a personal line of credit to pay for items that included mansions, jewelry, ski chalets and the donation to Seton Hall.

A spokeswoman for Seton Hall, which is administered by the Archdiocese of Newark, N.J., said the university was “troubled to learn about the allegations against Mr. Kozlowski” and that it would be “premature to comment on ongoing allegations.”

Morning After

JOURNAL OF AMERICAN COLLEGE HEALTH, September — Just more than half of the college health centers in the United States offer “morning-after pills,” according to a new survey published by the monthly journal.

Of 358 health centers that responded to the 1999 survey, 52% reported offering emergency-contraceptive pills. One-sixth of those that offered them said they had started to do so within the previous year.

The survey showed that colleges located in the Midwest and the South were less likely than other colleges to offer the pills, as were private colleges, including many religious institutions.

No Baby Seals?

THE UNIVERSITY OF DAYTON, Sept. 20 — The Marianist university's Center for Social Concern will host six presentations this fall that cover “stories of activism.”

Topics will include the alleged injustice of U.N. sanctions against Iraq; the tragedy of AIDS in Africa; opposition to the U.S. Defense Department's School of the Americas; opposition to the death penalty; and a panel discussion on “Ethics and War in the 21st Century.”

Least Debt

CHRISTENDOM COLLEGE, Sept. 18 — The Front Royal, Va., college ranked first among all Catholic national liberal arts colleges in America by US News & World Report in the category of “least debt incurred by its graduates.” No other Catholic national liberal arts college was listed in the “least debt” report.

The study, included in the magazine's “Best Colleges” issue published earlier this month, revealed that the average debt incurred among the 76% of Christendom graduates who acquired student loans amounted to $8,000. The amount of debt that students accumulated from educational loans at national liberal arts colleges throughout the country reached as high as $24,448 at Wesleyan University in Connecticut.

US News ranked Christendom first in its tier in the area of SAT scores among incoming freshmen (1,110-1,350), first in graduation rates and third in freshmen retention.

Fighting Cancer

UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME, Sept. 19 — University biologist Edward Hinchcliffe, a biologist in the university's Walther Cancer Center, has received a four-year, $700,000 Research Scholar Award from the American Cancer Society (ACS).

His grant proposal, “Centrosomes and Cell Cycle Progression,” was ranked first out of 44 submitted to the society's Cell Cycle and Growth Control Committee.