Tuesday, December 2, 2008

Education

Trail Mix

December 04, 2007 05:46 PM ET | Alison Go | Permanent Link | Print

*A camel costume + decent word of mouth = a record number of New York University students going on an Israeli Birthright trip this year, according to the Washington Square News.

*From the Pitt News, the worst way to spend a surplus $60,000: Buy 10 huge panther statues to be painted by University of Pittsburgh student groups, then botch the delivery and distribution. Watch school spirit die before it ever had a chance to live.

*The University of Oregon is taking on a beast of its own and is challenging a Recording Industry Association of America subpoena asking for the names of 17 school network users who may have shared copyrighted music, the Oregon Daily Emerald reports.

Tags: University of Pittsburgh | University of Oregon | NYU

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