Wharton alum new U.S. attorney in Md.
Rod Rosenstein was sworn in last week as the U.S. attorney for the state of Maryland.
Rosenstein, a summa cum laude Wharton graduate, was nominated by the president in May and confirmed by the Senate on July 1.
There are 93 U.S. attorneys throughout the nation and its territorial islands. Their role is to represent the federal government in U.S. District Court, both as the prosecutor in federal criminal cases and as either the plaintiff or defendant in civil cases involving the federal government.
Rosenstein is taking the place vacated by Republican Thomas DiBiagio, who stepped down a few months after being publicly reprimanded by the Justice Department for demanding indictments of prominent Democrats before last November's elections.
In a statement, Rosenstein, who was the assistant U.S. attorney for Maryland from 1997 to 2001, said, "I return to this office with a deep sense of duty, a healthy measure of humility and a high level of confidence in the remarkable abilities of our attorneys and staff."
-- Ryan Jones Calif. universities offer legal downloads The University of California and California State University systems are to begin offering legal ways for their students to download movies and music in the fall.
The two school systems have a student population of over 600,000 at 36 campuses, making the deal with Colorado-based Cdigix one of the largest agreements between a higher education system and a digital media provider.
With illegal music downloading rampant on college campuses, universities have been under increasing pressure to offer legal music-downloading alternatives to their students. It is still up to individual UC and Cal State campuses whether to offer Cdigix and how to fund it, by including the charge in tuition, offering student subscriptions or by other means.
With this agreement, the California systems join more than 50 colleges and universities across the nation, according to the Recording Industry Association of America.
Penn has no formal agreement with any digital media provider, and members of the Undergraduate Assembly working on proposals say they have met resistance from University administrators.
-- R.J. Cornell tie-up ends with trees as losers On Monday, most of the Cornell students who were protesting the destruction of a patch of redbud trees agreed to allow the construction of a parking lot on the site to proceed. Protesters had attached themselves to trees and pipes in an effort to thwart the project.
Cornell agreed to pursue environmentally conscious initiatives, particularly involving traffic and parking on campus.
At least four students refused to sign the agreement and vowed to continue their protest.
-- Nathan Johnson
Nursing alum named Hawaii Nursing dean Mary Boland, a 1975 graduate of the School of Nursing has been named the new dean of the University of Hawaii's School of Nursing and Dental Hygiene.
Formerly the associate dean of nursing at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Boland founded that school's Fran‡ois-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health & Human Rights.
Boland's primary focus is on health-care delivery to women and children, especially those infected with HIV. She has been a consultant to the World Health Organization and UNAIDS. She served on the Presidential Advisory Council on AIDS under President Bill Clinton. She also plays a leading role in developing the U.S. Public Health Services guidelines for the care of children and pregnant women with AIDS.
Her three-year appointment will pay $213,600 per year.
-- R.J.
