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Alter Net
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Alex Jung: Angry students and faculty call for the firing of a college newspaper editor at their own peril.
The Sept. 21 editorial of The Rocky Mountain Collegian was a taunt: TASER THIS...FUCK BUSH. Students groups like the College Republicans and fac..
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www.desmoinesregister.com
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A community college instructor in Red Oak claims he was fired after he told his students that the biblical story of Adam and Eve should not be literally interpreted.
Steve Bitterman, 60, said officials at Southwestern Community College sided with a han..
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SF Gate
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The California College of the Arts closed two campuses in San Francisco today following a bomb threat, college officials said.
In an e-mail sent out to students at 2:15 p.m., college officials said they had closed the campus at 1111 Eighth St. and the..
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FOX News
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College courses on prostitution could be the next addition to New Zealand's educational institutions.
Funding for courses on the age-old profession may be considered if the courses are deemed to have the necessary quality and relevance to the education..
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St. Petersburg Times
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Times columnist and editorial board member Bill Maxwell kept a promise to himself, to become a professor at a small historically black college, to nurture needy students the way that mentors had encouraged him as a young man. His second year started with..
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Yahoo News
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At first, Sarah Barg thought the e-mail was a scam. Some group called the Recording Industry Association of America was accusing the University of Nebraska-Lincoln sophomore of illegally downloading 381 songs using the school's computer network and a prog..
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www.metrowestdailynews.com
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Nearly 1,000 copies of the Framingham State College student newspaper were stolen by students embarrassed by the journal's front-page photo of them as bare-bellied FSC lacrosse fans attending a recent home game.
"I guess they were embarrassed about how..
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FOX News
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A college student shot and wounded his roommate early Friday in their off-campus apartment, then killed himself as police tried to enter his bedroom, authorities said.
Police went to the apartment after getting a call from a man who said he had just be..
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CNN
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To stressed-out parents and students, MIT admissions dean Marilee Jones was a rare voice of reason in the high-pressure world of college admissions. With colleges demanding kids who play sports, run student government and take the heaviest course load the..
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SF Gate
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When 95-year-old Nola Ochs graduates next month, she will be the world's oldest college graduate. The record Ochs will break, according to Guinness World Records, belongs to Mozelle Richardson, who at age 90 in 2004 received a journalism degree from the U..
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FOX News
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Parents of a Virginia Tech student expressed outrage Monday at what they call an inadequate response by college brass to the worst mass-murder shooting in American history.
John and Jennifer Shourds of Lovettsville, Va. demanded the immediate firings o..
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CNN
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A computer science lab instructor at a community college changed students' grades for cash and wine and told a student to lie before a grand jury in an attempt to cover up his lucrative scheme, prosecutors said...
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SF Gate
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Ethan Winsby considers himself in financial ruin at age 27 -- but not because he lost at gambling or risked everything on a startup that went bust...
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BlackFive.net
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My lifetime has seen the last vestiges of institutional racism banished. Individual racism can never be eradicated but we have progressed to where it is impossible for a public entity to discriminate based on race, right?..
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SF Gate
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About 1,500 college students rallied at state Capitol this morning to protest $1 billion in budget cuts that Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is proposing for California's three college systems in the coming fiscal year.
Students from many UC, state universi..
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CNN
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More than three times as many black people live in prison cells as in college dorms, the government said in a report to be released Thursday. The ratio is only slightly better for Hispanics, at 2.7 inmates for every Latino in college housing. Among non-Hi..
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Washington Post
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One year, shortly before graduation, the mother of a friend came to visit him at college. As they walked across campus after dinner, a young woman he knew stopped to say hello and ask where he was going. "He's going home," his mother snapped. "Alone."..
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USA Today
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As students head to the nation's college campuses, relishing their new independence, criminal prosecutions in the deaths of two young men are a sober reminder of how quickly alcohol-fueled "fun" can spin out of control.
Charges were filed this month ag..
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USA Today
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A record number of students took the ACT college entrance exam this year, including minorities, whose numbers have seen double-digit increases since 2003.
The 1.3 million high schoolers who took the test last spring also bumped up the typical score, bu..
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FOX News
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The investigation into the execution-style murder of three college students took a shocking turn Friday afternoon with a report that two of the victims may have been sexually assaulted before they were killed.
FOX 5 New York reported that a sexual atta..
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