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Community College's Scholarship Catches Grief
Tweet Share on Facebook May 28, 2010 Comment (7)If the new laws in Arizona didn't do enough to make the immigration fire hotter, a new scholarship for illegal immigrants at a California community college will.
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College Kids Lacking Empathy, Study Says
Tweet Share on Facebook May 28, 2010 Comment (15)There's a reason the moniker "Generation Me" has been attached to the new generation of young people, and a new study has some information that sheds light on how the nickname came to be.
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Huge Fight at Bates College Leads to 11 Arrests
Tweet Share on Facebook May 27, 2010 Comment (7)We've heard all about big parties on or near college campuses going horribly awry. It happened at the University of Maryland and James Madison University this year. Well, add a new one to the list: Bates College in Maine.
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Living With History at College ... Literally
Tweet Share on Facebook May 27, 2010 CommentAs a young, bright-eyed freshman at the illustrious University of Pittsburgh, Paper Trail told everyone that his dorm room formerly housed Pitt football god Dan Marino. Of course, there was no legitimacy to the claim. But in a great New York Times blog post, several students can legitimately claim some historic digs.
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Ann Curry's Wheaton Flub Goes Viral
Tweet Share on Facebook May 26, 2010 Comment (14)You have to feel for Ann Curry. The Today show anchor made a serious flub in her commencement speech at Wheaton College in Norton, Mass., this past weekend. Curry ran through some names of Wheaton's most famous alumni during one part of her speech. The problem? She named a few grads from the Wheaton College in Illinois. Oops.
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University of Michigan Imposes Sanctions on Its Football Team
Tweet Share on Facebook May 26, 2010 Comment (5)The other shoe dropped in the University of Michigan football scandal. After an investigation into allegations that the football team had violated NCAA rules, the university has come to the conclusion that the allegations were accurate. The school admitted that the football team had "surpassed" the maximum number of mandatory workout hours listed by NCAA rule.
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University of Utah Journalists Allowed to Graduate
Tweet Share on Facebook May 25, 2010 CommentEvery year since 1999, departing seniors at the University of Utah's Daily Utah Chronicle have done a going-away prank. This year's drew some criticism.
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University of Arizona Professor Tackles Immigration at Commencement
Tweet Share on Facebook May 24, 2010 Comment (16)A controversial immigration law in Arizona took the national stage weeks ago when it was announced. It has prompted responses from every corner of the political spectrum.
One University of Arizona professor spoke rather bluntly about the topic at commencement last week, and her speech has gone viral on the Internet. Sandra Soto is an associate professor in the School of Social and Behavioral Sciences, and she "openly voiced her disapproval" of Arizona's new immigration laws, the Huffington Post reports.
[Check out our 2010 commencement coverage.]
Soto began her speech talking about the power of the young mind and its ability to solve problems and think critically. Then she mentions the immigration law about halfway through her speech, and the crowd grows rather restless—although, in fairness, she gets a standing ovation from a good amount of students and other attendees, so it wasn't all negative.
You can watch a five-minute clip of the speech here:
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How to Graduate ... and Break a Guinness World Record
Tweet Share on Facebook May 21, 2010 CommentIt wasn't enough that the class of 2010 is graduating from a prestigious university like Washington University in St. Louis this week. The 710 members of the new graduating class broke a Guinness World Record a few days before commencement, too.
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Age-Old Sports Vs. Academics Debate Heats Up at Ohio University
Tweet Share on Facebook May 20, 2010 Comment (1)Is it just Paper Trail, or does this debate pop up annually in college circles? It's the endless fight between academics and athletics, and it's heating up at Ohio University.
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