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MADISON, Wis. — Audrey Seiler (search), the University of Wisconsin-Madison (search) student who faked her abduction, was sentenced Thursday to three years probation after she pleaded guilty to two misdemeanor counts. Seiler read a statement during the hearing in which she attributed the ordeal to a severe state of depression that caused her to act irrationally.

Last modified Tuesday, May 25, 2004 11:49 PM PDT Brook Wilberger The search intensifies By JESSE SOWA Gazette-Times reporter Police believe Wilberger abducted Shoes and personal items were left behind Monday morning outside a Corvallis apartment complex, but there was no other sign of Brooke Carol Wilberger. She was gone without a trace. On Tuesday, police continued interviewing people and searching the Corvallis area for the 19-year-old Veneta woman, whom police believe was abducted. Wilberger was last seen about 10 a.m. Monday at the Oak Park Apartments, 1219 S.W. 26th St., where her sister and brother-in-law, Stephanie and Zak Hansen,...

Holy Cross to Admit Girls in 2005 LAST UPDATE: 1/13/2004 8:14:49 AM Posted By: Jim Forsyth After 48 years as an all-boy institution, San Antonio's Holy Cross High School is going co-ed. The west side landmark will admit girls in the fall of 2005, and will be 'fully co-educational' by 2009, according to the school's long time President, Brother Stanley Culotta. "It's a sign of changing trends in education," Culotta said. "There were some companion girls schools on the city's west and south sides, but these schools have closed." He says boys and girls are no longer as interested...

Boy Scout’s Not a Boy By MATTHEW ARTZ (11-11-03) Baily Hopkins is no senior-year slacker. The Berkeley High student plays violin in the Young People’s Symphony Orchestra, will perform in the upcoming student performance of Anything Goes, just finished field hockey season, and next month will lead her Boy Scout crew to Nicaragua. Yep, Boy Scouts. Needless to say, from the pink headband wrapped around her hair to the pint-size rainbow knot affixed to her uniform, Bailey is not your typical scout. “I used to be a Girl Scout but that was like, ‘Let’s go learn to sew, let’s...

When sixth-grade student Mayosie Davis showed up for the first day of school at Atlanta's King Middle last week, she could hardly believe it. There weren't any boys in math class. None in language arts, either. Social studies? A boy-free zone. The entire sixth-grade class has been separated by gender this year for everything but lunch and an elective course. Boys take their core academic classes in one area, girls in another. "I miss them," Mayosie says with a sheepish smile. "I'd rather hang around boys than girls." King is the only public school in metro Atlanta and one of...

<p>By MARK PITSCH mpitsch@courier-journal.com The Courier-Journal Many of Kentucky's colleges and universities are re-examining their campus safety measures after the fatal attack on a Western Kentucky University freshman in her dorm room earlier this month.</p> <p>University officials around the state are looking at issues ranging from what kind of key access students have to dormitories, to video surveillance, to requiring identification for visitors.</p>

<p>BOWLING GREEN, Ky. – One of two Scottsville men charged in the murder of a Western Kentucky University student told police that he doused the victim with hairspray in her dormitory room and that the other suspect set her on fire, a police detective testified yesterday.</p>

Virtually every student who has ever attended school has heard the phrase, "No talking in class." Now, an elementary school in southern Oregon has taken that proscription a step further, by banning all conversation between boys and girls. The silent fury began last week when 6th-grade teacher Mary Bond at Peterson Elementary School noticed students showing public signs of affection during lunch recess, reports the Klamath Falls Herald and News. So, to prevent nature from running its course, she banned all discourse between boys and girls, at least temporarily. "It was not a disciplinary measure," principal Jim Smith told the...