The U.S. Education Department, criticized for lax oversight of student loans, released proposed rules Friday that would set new standards for universities and ban lenders' marketing practices that have resulted, in some cases, in loan company payoffs to university officials, reported The New York Times.

Investigators said Thursday the disturbing video images of the student responsible for the worst shooting spree in U.S. history did not add much to their probe of what happened and why at Virginia Tech University on Monday. But the airing of gunman Cho Seung-hui's ranting video has angered relatives of the victims and some students.

A South Korean national who was studying English at the university was behind the massacre of at least 30 people locked inside a Virginia Tech campus building in the deadliest shooting rampage in modern U.S. history, the university said Tuesday.

Two shootings on campus today have left 33 dead. Thirty-one, including the gunman, died at Norris Hall; two died at West Ambler Johnston Hall. Fifteen other victims from Norris are being treated at area hospitals. Virginia Tech remains closed on Monday, April 16, 2007. Vehicular entrances to campus are severely restricted to essential personnel only. Additional security remains on campus as the investigation continues.

Ms. Oprah Winfrey, Global media leader and international philanthropist, has been named the Commencement Convocation speaker for Howard University's 139th graduating class on Saturday, May 12 at 10 a.m. on the upper quadrangle of the main campus.

The University of Chicago will become the first American university to offer courses taught by members of the College de France, one of the world's most elite scholarly institutions. This fall, for the first time in its nearly 500-year history, the College de France will send its faculty to lecture in the United States as part of the Collège de France Visiting Chair Program.

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