Updated June 2 with new document for conflict of interest reports.

Happy Friday, friends. Enjoy the weekend - I know I will. In the meantime, an interesting round up today.

Inside the system:

- U.S. Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-MO, is hosting her second round table discussion about campus sexual assaults on Monday. Monday�s discussion is geared toward Title IX and will feature Deborah Noble-Triplett, assistant vice president for Academic Affairs at the UM System. The round table will be live streamed at 1:30 CST Monday. You can expect a blog post or potentially a story about the discussion.

Other participants at Monday�s round table discussion include Lindy Aldrich, deputy director at the Victim Rights Law Center; Dana Bolger, co-director of Know Your IX; John Kelly, special project organizer of Know Your IX; Katie Eichele, director of the Aurora Center for Advocacy & Education at the University of Minnesota; Anne Hedgepeth, government relations manager at the American Association of University Women; and Cat Riley, Title IX coordinator of the Office of Title IX Compliance at the University of Texas Medical Branch.

- Every year, the curators are expected to file conflict of interest reports to show where their work overlaps with operations at the university. Curators are allowed to have business deals with the university as long as contracts are competitively bid when they exceed $10,000, according to previous Tribune reporting. The curators file these reports every August, so these reports are nice and aged by a few months.

I received a copy of the 2013 reports and not much looked interesting. Still, I have attached the document to the blog, for the sake of transparency.

You�ll notice that the only curator with a �large� conflict of interest is David Steward. His business, World Wide Technologies, which sold $11 million in routers, switches and other technology products to state agencies and entities, including the university, during the past year. We wrote about Steward�s business and his previous conflict of interest report in 2012, if you�re interested in how it all works.

** On June 2, the UM System emailed an additional document that updates the conflict of interest reports for David Bradley. That document has been attached separately to this post.�

- The Missouri University of Science and Technology made a�sizable�announcement this week: they are losing the power plant that has�powered the campus for about 70 years and will instead use a geothermal energy system. This is a pretty big undertaking.

The current plant has already powered down, according to a news release, and by this fall the new system will start providing heating and cooling to 17 campus buildings, as well as chilled water to the majority of the campus. Read more about what the geothermal energy system entails - spoiler, it�s a lot of science - on S&T�s website.

- Expansion plans are in the works for the MU College of Veterinary Medicine.

- Remember the case of former MU radiologists Ken Rall and Michael Richards who were fired after an internal investigation showed they committed billing fraud? It�s still around, and will be for a while, I�m told.