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Is It Just Her, or Are People Becoming Ruder?
Tweet Share on Facebook December 6, 2006 Comment"Most of the time," writes the columnist in today's San Diego State University Daily Aztec, "people should know better, unless they were raised by wolves."
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A Maryland School Moves Away From SAT
Tweet Share on Facebook December 6, 2006 CommentSalisbury University will become the first state school in Maryland not to require standardized test scores for admission, the state's Board of Regents decided last week. "There are issues about the SAT and its fairness--there's certainly a coordination between success on the SAT and family income," University System Chancellor Brit Kirwan told the Diamondback. "I think we all know students who retake the SAT--which is not a cheap test--and get a better score." The plan will go into effect next year, beginning a five-year test period. If the test goes well, the regents could expand the policy.
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Trail Mix
Tweet Share on Facebook December 6, 2006 Comment- A discrimination suit on behalf of minority students seeking higher education in Alabama has finally been settled--after 25 years, the Crimson White reports .
- Nebraska, the birthplace of the Reuben sandwich, still has good Reubens, the Daily Nebraskan reports.
- A Kansas senior living with HIV tells her story to the Daily Kansan.
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Katrina Aftermath Forces Loyola to Consider Tuition Hikes
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New Orleans' struggling economy was a "big factor" in a proposal by the Rev. Kevin Wildes, president of Loyola University, to raise tuition, reports the Maroon. "New Orleans has become a more expensive place to live," and faculty and staff need wage and salary hikes to keep up, he said.
PHOTO CREDIT: JIM LO SCALZO FOR USN&WR
PHOTO CAPTION: December 16, 2005—Workers at Loyola University in New Orleans clean up the campus in preparation for the school's January reopening. -
Another Rally at Hopkins Responds to 'Halloween in the Hood' Party
Tweet Share on Facebook December 5, 2006 Comment (1)Debate over a Halloween party invitation that Johns Hopkins University officials say "made broad stereotypical references to African-Americans and derogatory references to Baltimore" continued last week with a rally. But this protest was not thrown by the NAACP; instead, it was hosted by students supporting Justin Park, the Sigma Chi brother who was suspended from the university until 2008 for making the invitation.
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Indiana Student Confesses to Peeping; Meanwhile, Someone at Kent State Is More Technologically Advanced
Tweet Share on Facebook December 5, 2006 Comment (1)Corrected on 03/04/08: An earlier version of this post incorrectly named “Iowa University” instead of Indiana University.
An Indiana University student admits he did it the old-fashioned way—looking into women's shower stalls with his eyes. But at Kent State, somebody may have been more clever. Though police won't confirm it, a student reports finding a hidden camera in a women's bathroom, the Stater says.
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To Find a President, Harvard Considers Poaching From Peers
Tweet Share on Facebook December 5, 2006 Comment (1)The presidents of Brown, Columbia, Princeton, Tufts, and the University of Pennsylvania are among the candidates for the job of Harvard University's next president, reports the Harvard Crimson, tipped off to a list of 30 names that seems not to include any Washington types. Some had whispered that Condoleezza Rice and Bill Clinton might be among the candidates, but the higher-ed-heavy list shouldn't be much of a surprise. After all, this search began only after Lawrence H. Summers, a former Treasury Secretary criticized for his Washington style, succumbed to the pleas of his critics and resigned.
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A Picture Is Worth 1,000 Words, but What About 1,000 Pictures?
Tweet Share on Facebook December 5, 2006 Comment (1)An N.C. State student has a new idea for how to demonstrate the burdensome cost of textbooks, which he says have gotten so expensive some students can't afford them at all: photographs. The Student Senate treasurer proposes a set of between 500 and 1,000 photographs that would show students holding signs displaying the number of dollars they spent on books. "When you have something you can physically carry [to the administration] and it shows student faces, I think it says a lot more," he tells the Technician.
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BU Athletes Portrayed as Victims Maybe Not So Innocent
Tweet Share on Facebook December 5, 2006 CommentYesterday, the Daily Free Press described a weekend fight that landed two Boston University men's ice hockey players in the hospital and two other athletes injured as completely unprovoked. Later that night, the men's ice hockey coach told the paper a different story: the fight "was not a random attack," but the follow-up to a "prior scuffle".
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Trail Mix
Tweet Share on Facebook December 5, 2006 Comment- MIT has launched a fundraising drive--but this one will raise money just for students, the Tech reports.
- Cornell University's antihazing website is a "great place to pick up hazing ideas," IvyGate reports.
- A group of Latino students, faculty, and alumni want the University of California-San Diego to work harder to recruit Latino students, only 1 in 4 of whom end up going to UCSD if they're accepted, the Guardian reports.