The Paper Trail

Story of the Year

By U.S. News Staff

January 9, 2007 RSS Feed Print

Sometimes the news at one college is so big, campuses all over the country (and the mainstream media, too) are talking about it. What was that story in 2006?

Columbia University students confront the Minutemen
Duke lacrosse players face rape allegations
Harvard President Lawrence Summers' resignation
Harvard student Kaavya Viswanathan faces plagiarism charges for her bestselling novel
UCLA campus security officers taser a student
USC Daily Trojan editor in chief resigns after clashing with the college's Media Board


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