former student
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A former student at the university has been arrested and is in custody, according to police.
From BBC • Jun. 4, 2026
A former student says he ran middle distances, cross-country, and acted a role model for younger runners until he graduated in 2013.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 24, 2026
He becomes the host to a former student named Sabiha, who has fled her home because she is suspected—wrongly, she claims—of killing her husband in a fire.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 20, 2026
But it is a trait that Darnold has long exhibited, according to his high school coach Jaime Ortiz, who remembers his former student as a wildly gifted but quietly driven kid.
From Barron's • Feb. 4, 2026
“Rutherford was an artist,” commented his former student A. S. Russell.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
