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Trail Mix
The Paper Trail
- February 16, 2007
The Spartan Daily has a long profile today explaining how a Sudanese refugee made his way to San Jose State.
At Johns Hopkins, minority recruitment strategies have worked; applications from underrepresented minorities have risen 69 percent since 2003--from 1,220 to 2,070, the Newsletter reports.
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New Orleans Educators Say Crime Is Pushing Retention, Admissions Down
The Paper Trail
- January 12, 2007
Murder is bad in itself, but what brought top Louisiana state officials to a table to talk about it Wednesday was the effects it's having on local universities' retention and admissions rates. New Orleans saw 162 murders in 2006 and eight more as of today, the Loyola Maroon reports.
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Trail Mix
The Paper Trail
- December 12, 2006
One thankful benefactor of Katrina rebuilding: Tulane's rollerblading "minstrel," who writes with gratitude in The Hullabaloo.
Down the road, another student paper in New Orleans, Loyola University's Maroon, tells the story behind a basketball player's tattoo--a tragedy that proved, for him at least, far more life-changing than Katrina.
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Katrina Aftermath Forces Loyola to Consider Tuition Hikes
The Paper Trail
- December 5, 2006