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Anderson Cooper's CIA Secret Anderson Cooper has long traded on his biography, carving a niche for himself as the most human of news anchors. But there's one aspect of his past that the silver-haired CNN star has never made public: the months he spent training for a career with the Central Intelligence Agency. Following his sophomore and junior years at Yale—a well-known recruiting ground for the CIA—Cooper spent his summers interning at the agency's monolithic headquarters in Langley, Virginia, in a program for students interested in intelligence work. His involvement with the agency ended there, and he chose not to...

Another assault occurs on campus by Taylor Smith September 05, 2005 A forcible fondling occurred on Friday night outside the main entrance of Branscomb, according to a crime alert Director of Crime Prevention Andrew Atwood sent yesterday, the third assault report thus far as classes enter only their ninth day of the year. When the school year started less than two weeks ago, Vanderbilt was honored for its academic reputation as one of the top 20 universities in the country by U.S. News and World Report. However, lately, Vandy has been the scene of incidents that deserve no praise whatsoever...

The Battle of Nashville was fought in 1864, but Civil War skirmishing has been plentiful in the city for the past three years — much to the frustration of Vanderbilt University. With strong support from its black students and alumni, Vanderbilt has been waging a legal fight to remove the word “Confederate” from the front of a dormitory. But the move has outraged groups that seek to honor and study Confederate history. On Monday, Vanderbilt announced that it was giving up its battle — although the university will continue to refer to the building without the “Confederate” name in all...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Vanderbilt University (search) is giving up its long-running court fight to have the name "Confederate Memorial Hall" removed from the stone front of a campus dormitory. Chancellor Gordon Gee (search) dropped the word "Confederate" from the dorm's name in 2002, citing an effort to create a more welcoming environment. But the United Daughters of the Confederacy (search), which helped finance the building, sued when the school wanted to physically remove the name from the main entrance. The case reached the Tennessee Court of Appeals, which in May ordered Vanderbilt to either leave the chiseled name alone or...

NASHVILLE, Tennessee (AP) -- A black doctor has offered $50,000 to a Southern heritage group to buy the naming rights to a Vanderbilt University dormitory at the center of a legal fight over whether it should be called Confederate Memorial Hall.

NASHVILLE - A black doctor has offered $50,000 to a Southern heritage group to buy the naming rights to a Vanderbilt University dormitory at the center of a legal fight over the word "Confederate." Dr. Eddie Hamilton, a 1985 Vanderbilt graduate, has offered the money and hopes others will chip in. He hopes the school will give the United Daughters of the Confederacy money to rename Confederate Memorial Hall. Hamilton said he felt moved to make the public offer after an appeals court ruled against Vanderbilt's plan to strip the word off the building. "Anything that makes reference to the...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Vanderbilt University would violate a decades-old contract if it stripped the word "Confederate" from the name of a dormitory built with the help of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, a court ruling released Wednesday said. The heritage group donated a third of the building's cost. In return, the name Confederate Memorial Hall was chiseled into stone over the main entrance.

Vanderbilt's ongoing litigation with the United Daughters of the Confederacy over the changing of the name of Confederate Memorial Hall to Memorial Hall is an example of a trend that is taking place in schools across the South. As a Feb. 12 article in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution pointed out, in addition to Vanderbilt, schools in the Southeast such as Sewanee: The University of the South; the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; and the University of Texas at Austin are all choosing to remove Confederate symbols and Southern traditions to better compete in attracting the nation's best and most...

Group trying to block building name change: NASHVILLE, Tennessee -- A state appeals court heard arguments Wednesday over whether Vanderbilt University can remove the word "Confederate" from a dormitory the United Daughters of the Confederacy helped build in the 1930s. The Tennessee chapter of the group claims the university's effort to drop the first word from Confederate Memorial Hall violates decades-old contracts, but Vanderbilt claims the contracts are no longer valid. The judges, who did not say when they will issue a ruling, had strong words for both sides. "You're arguing social values and making the courts be the tough...

TAMPA, Fla. -- Vanderbilt running back Kwane Doster was shot to death after his friends and a group of other men exchanged "trash talk" about their cars, Tampa police said Tuesday. Police continued to appeal for help in making an arrest in the Sunday morning shooting. Police said they have suspects, but need witnesses who might have seen who fired the fatal shot. Doster, 21, was shot to death at a sandwich shop after visiting a local club with two friends about 1:30 a.m. Sunday. While leaving the club, Doster's friends had a discussion with three other men about their...

Tampa, FL (Sports Network) - Vanderbilt running back Kwane Doster was shot to death early Sunday morning at the young age of 21. After being shot near the Ybor City nightlife district, Doster was taken to Tampa General Hospital, where he died.

Tuesday, December 7, 2004 Vanderbilt male candidate for homecoming queen Posted: December 7, 20041:00 a.m. Eastern By Les Kinsolving © 2004 WorldNetDaily.com The re-election of President Bush, along with 11 states voting overwhelmingly against same-sex marriage, has apparently had little effect on the militants of the Sodomy Lobby. That lobby's ally, the New York Times, on Nov. 27, devoted half a page to a story headlined "GAY STUDENTS FORCE NEW LOOK AT HOMECOMING TRADITIONS." Also included was a full-length photograph captioned: "EVERETT MORAN, A GAY STUDENT AT VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY, WHO RAN FOR HOMECOMING QUEEN, DRESSED IN DRAG FOR THE OCCASION." This repulsive...

The earnings of many top university presidents are spiraling up toward $1 million a year, according to an annual survey by The Chronicle of Higher Education, rising far more quickly than faculty salaries. Forty-two presidents of private universities were paid $500,000 or more in the 2003 fiscal year, the most recent for which figures are available, compared with 27 presidents the previous year. Just two earned half a million in 1994. The highest-paid private university president, William R. Brody of Johns Hopkins University, earned $897,786 in university compensation, not counting at least $100,000 in annual pay for membership on several...

Today President Bush met in the Oval Office with El Salvador President Francisco Flores in the article where the two discussed regional economic and political issues, and the war in Iraq and the greater war on terror. The President later traveled to the Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee, where he engaged in a conversation on healthcare information technologies.Yesterday, the President met with Gabonese President Omar Bongo in the Oval Office. Enjoy your trip to Sanity Island on the Daily Dose!

Story: http://www.tennessean.com/education/archives/04/05/51315665.shtml?Element_ID=51315665 A few snippets... As thousands of people listened appreciatively and a handful protested quietly, national security adviser Condoleezza Rice told Vanderbilt University seniors yesterday that they should ''never make the mistake of assuming that some people do not share your desire to live freely.''Vanderbilt's decision to bring Rice to campus and give her an award for ''distinguished public service'' on the day before graduation upset some students and staff, who protested yesterday and earlier in the week. But most people seemed happy she was there, and she received two standing ovations and scattered laughs and applause.Holly DeVore Allen...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Condoleezza Rice (news - web sites) said Thursday that terrorists today are driven by the same hatred that inspired Klansmen to bomb a church in 1963 in her hometown of Birmingham, Ala. President Bush (news - web sites)'s national security adviser spoke to about 10,000 people — including a small group of protesters — at Vanderbilt University's Senior Class Day. The bombing at the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham killed four girls, including her friend, 11-year-old Denise McNair, and was meant to instill fear, Rice said. "Those terrorists failed because of the poverty of their visions...

<p>Summary: Reuters reports on December 3, that Armin Meiwes has admitted in a German court that he killed and ate a man he met through the Internet. The Reuters story neglected to mention that Meiwes was a homosexual.</p> <p>WARNING:You will be reading very disturbing material.</p>

<p>The United Daughters of the Confederacy said yesterday that it will appeal the recent dismissal of its lawsuit to keep the word ''Confederate'' in the name of a Vanderbilt University residence hall.</p> <p>Vanderbilt announced in September 2002 that it would drop the word from the name of Confederate Memorial Hall, which the UDC helped build in 1935. The organization sued a few weeks later, and Davidson County Chancellor Irvin Kilcrease dismissed the suit late last month.</p>

Vanderbilt University Medical Center is participating in worldwide tests of a potential vaccine that can stimulate important immune responses against the virus that causes AIDS. This is the first candidate vaccine against the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) to be studied simultaneously in so many locations, from Brazil to Thailand, according to Merck & Co. Inc., which developed the vaccine. Vanderbilt currently is testing six potential AIDS vaccines, but the Merck product has gone farther than any other in generating cellular immune responses in preliminary human tests, says Dr. Paul Spearman, co-principal investigator of the Vanderbilt HIV Vaccine Program, one of...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - A judge ruled Tuesday that Vanderbilt University can change the name of Confederate Memorial Hall to something it considers less inflammatory. After Vanderbilt announced plans last fall to drop "Confederate" from the building's name, the private university was sued by the Tennessee chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, whose $50,000 donation helped fund construction of the dormitory 70 years ago. Chancellor Irvin Kilcrease, on his last day before retiring from the bench, ruled the university had fulfilled its contractual obligations to the Confederate heritage group by installing a plaque on the side of the...