Administrators

About 85 students at George Washington University are suffering from norovirus, which typically leads to several uncomfortable days, but is not life-threatening, The Washington Post reported. Students with norovirus tend to experience diarrhea, vomiting, nausea and stomach cramps. Close quarters in which college students tend to live make it easy for the norovirus to spread. In New Jersey, officials at Princeton and Rider Universities report that outbreaks on their campuses last week appear to be subsiding. At Huntington University, in Indiana, officials are dealing with an outbreak of head lice affecting students in four dormitories, The Journal Gazette reported. Officials believe that the source of the list is a group of students who were on a trip to India in January.

Heather Munroe-Blum, principal (president equivalent) of McGill University, will be leaving her position -- among the most prominent in Canadian academe -- next year, The Montreal Gazette reported. McGill's research programs and fund-raising capabilities have grown substantially during Munroe-Blum's tenure, which started in 2003. The university faced employee strikes and student protests in the last year, but Munroe-Blum said that those incidents had not led to her decision. She said she decided some time ago to serve two terms, which she is doing.

The Connecticut Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that the University of Connecticut's donor records are not covered by the state's open records laws, The Hartford Courant reported. The court ruled that the exemptions in the law for trade secrets apply to these records.

A six-month investigation by local police into drug dealing at Texas Christian University resulted Wednesday in the arrest of 17 students, officials at the university announced Wednesday. Chancellor Victor Boschini Jr. called the arrests "shocking and disappointing," and said that those convicted of selling drugs would be expelled (they were immediately "separated from TCU and criminally trespassed from campus," he said). Those arrested included four members of the university's football team, news reports indicated.

The University of Michigan Board of Regents may vote this week to remove a bylaw provision that requires the president to step down in the fiscal year that the person turns 70, AnnArbor.com reported. Officials said that the move is intended to comply with laws against age discrimination. The move may have a direct impact on the current president, Mary Sue Coleman, who is 68.