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• Is Good Food a Human Right for Prisoners?
• MIT Offers A Really Cool Course – Oh, And It’s Free
• Corinthian Colleges to be monitored by ex-U.S. Attorney Fitzgerald
• Indiana University doctoral student among Malaysia Air dead
• Three months later, body recovered from South Korea ferry

Is Good Food a Human Right for Prisoners? Posted: 18 Jul 2014 03:26 PM PDT Since January, at least five appearances by maggots in food or in the kitchen have been reported just in Ohio prisons, according to the records of food service operator Aramark Correctional Services. With prison cafeterias' blotted quality-control history—including recent cases of prisoners being served expired bologna and live maggots—some prisoner advocates say there should be a baseline standard for the food served behind bars, similar to the nutritional standards guiding food service in public schools. "Everyone should have the right to decent food—adequate, nutritious food," says Alex Friedmann, managing editor of Prison Legal News, an independent publication of the Human Rights Defense Center. "It's not just that the [prison] food is bad, which generally it is.

MIT Offers A Really Cool Course – Oh, And It’s Free Posted: 18 Jul 2014 12:02 PM PDT Many colleges and universities offer free online courses for students, including giants in the higher-education industry like Harvard and Yale. At the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the OpenCourseWare program allows students to choose from literally thousands of free online courses ranging from business to art. According to Gizmodo, one course of note is MIT's "Documentary of Photography" and "Photojournalism: A History of the World in Motion" course.

Corinthian Colleges to be monitored by ex-U.S. Attorney Fitzgerald Posted: 18 Jul 2014 11:21 AM PDT Former federal prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald agreed to serve as an independent monitor of Corinthian Colleges Inc, the struggling for-profit education company that agreed to sell or close its campuses, the U.S. Department of Education said on Friday. Fitzgerald, 53, is a partner at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, which he joined in 2012 after a decade as U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois, which includes Chicago. As a prosecutor, he won the convictions of former Illinois governors George Ryan and Rod Blagojevich;

Indiana University doctoral student among Malaysia Air dead Posted: 18 Jul 2014 09:29 AM PDT (Reuters) - A Dutch doctoral student and former member of the Indiana University rowing team was among the passengers killed when Malaysian airliner went down in Ukraine, the university said Friday in a statement. Karlijn Keijzer, 25, was a doctoral student in the chemistry department in the university's college of Arts and Sciences, had earned a master's degree from the university and was a member of the women's rowing team in the 2011 season, the university said. "The Indiana rowing family is deeply saddened by the news of Karlijn's sudden passing," Indiana head rowing coach Steve Peterson said in a statement.

Three months later, body recovered from South Korea ferry Posted: 17 Jul 2014 08:19 PM PDT Divers retrieved another body Friday from the site of South Korea's ferry disaster -- the first to be recovered in nearly four weeks from the submerged vessel that sank three months ago. The body of a female was found inside a dining hall of the upturned ferry which is lying on the seabed at a depth of 40 metres (130 feet), rescue authorities said. The 6,825-tonne Sewol ferry was carrying 476 passengers and crew -- including 325 high school students -- when it capsized and sank off the southern coast on April 16. President Park Geun-Hye and her administration have been bitterly criticised for their response to the disaster, which stunned the entire country.

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