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Latest News - Student Governance and Campus Administration
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Student-Run Scholarship Safe from Cuts
Recent protesters at the University of Washington will be happy to hear that although scholarships around the country have been stung by a bad economy, the Husky Pride Fund at UW recently hit its fundraising goal of $50,000.
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ASUCD President Vetoes a Vote of No Confidence in Yudof
Following months of heated criticisms of University of California President Mark Yudof, the President of the Associated Students of the University of California-Davis Joe Chatham vetoed a resolution that would have proclaimed a stance no confidence in Yudof.
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AG Says UW Student Governments Must Obey Open Meeting Laws
When student journalists at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee had a hard time getting information about their student government’s budget and election practices, they asked Wisconsin Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen if student governments should be subject to open meeting laws.
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Protests Spur Heightened Tensions at Berkeley
Students protesting fee hikes and budget cuts inside Wheeler Hall at the University of California-Berkeley were shocked when their protest was shortened due to a police raid in the early hours of Dec. 11.
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Graduate Students Strike at University of Illinois
On Nov. 16, the graduate students of the University of Illinois went on strike over continued financial debates with the University’s administration, and then suspended their strike the following day.
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UW Students Punishable for Off-Campus Offenses
After an update to the policy on Student Nonacademic Disciplinary policy that went into effect September 1, students’ off-campus offenses are now punishable by the University of Wisconsin in addition to law enforcement.
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Wall of Burning Issues Looms over University of New Mexico
On Nov. 9 University of New Mexico students erected a Wall of Burning Issues, where about 50 students and organization representatives wrote their concerns about the university’s handling of issues such as student advisement, sustainability, and the university smoking ban.
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Controversy over Funding for Visiting Speakers at UNC
Continuing a culture of protest around visiting speakers, University of North Carolina’s Student Congress was protested by several students over a funding request by the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) to bring three visiting speakers.
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Nebraska Students Decline To Support SAFRA
The Association of Students of the University of Nebraska debated and rejected a bill that would have shown support for the Federal Student Aid and Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2009.
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U W Considers Rewarding Popular Majors
The University of Washington is considering a new budgeting model that would allocate money based on quality of instruction and the number of degrees produced.
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Graduate Students Rally for Fair Contract
Students in the Graduate Employee’s Organization at the University of Illinois rallied Oct. 26 in an effort to persuade the university to give them what they would consider a fair worker’s contract.
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Colleges and Universities Going Tobacco Free
In the month since the American College Health Association released a set of updated guidelines urging all colleges and universities across the country go tobacco free, many colleges have moved to snuff out tobacco use.
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BSU May Remove Students from Grievance Process
Citing a lack of student participation, the faculty senate at Boise State University has proposed legislation that will remove student representation from the Academic Grievance Board.
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DePaul University Students Protest Tenure Denial
On Tuesday October 6th, 50 students, faculty and staff members of DePaul University gathered on campus to rally and march following word that Professor Melissa Bradshaw, founder of the LGBTQA minor, had been denied tenure.
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UI President Resigns After Admissions Scandal
After a summer of controversy, President B. Joseph White of the University of Illinois officially resigned his post on Sept. 23 following an admissions scandal that involved giving special privileges to students with political connections.
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Student Protesters Arrested at UC Board of Regents Meeting
Chants of “Whose university? Our university!” broke up a Board of Regents meeting Wednesday as dozens of University of California students, alumni, faculty, and staff protested $300 million in budget cuts and a 32 percent tuition hike.
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Senate at U of Illinois Call for Ouster of Administrators
After an admissions scandal that drew nation-wide scorn and attention at the University of Illinois, a group of student and faculty leaders are calling for the replacement of President B. Joseph White and Chancellor Richard Herman.
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Students at USM Protest Faculty Cuts
Students and faculty at the University of Southern Mississippi are protesting layoffs of twelve tenured and tenure track professors for the 2010-11 academic year.
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More Scandal at UIllinois
Between 2004 and 2009, lawmakers awarded at least 41 scholarships to students at the University of Illinois who were relatives of their major campaign donors.
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SUNO to Receive $32M in Federal Funding
Four years after Hurricane Katrina devastated Southern University of New Orleans, the school will receive $32 million in federal grants to rebuild academic buildings damaged from the storm.
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USM to Cut Economics Department
As the University of Southern Mississippi works to find ways to cut back spending, the school is likely to eliminate its economics department this fall.
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Cal Graduate Students Protest Staff Dismissal
Graduate students at the University of California-Berkeley are protesting the layoff of the Graduate Student Affairs Officer in the Environmental Sciences and Policy Management Department.
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Arizona to Expand Universities
The Arizona Board of Regents are attempting to increase the number of college graduates in the state by expanding the states’ three state universities.
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Merit-Based Aid May Decrease Diversity
A new study published by the Cornell Higher Education Research Institute shows that private colleges that began offering merit-based aid ten years ago are less likely to enroll Pell Grant recipients and black students than before they offered merit-based scholarships.
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Michigan Looks to New Classroom Locks for Safety
The University of Michigan is looking into installing locks on classroom doors that would lock from the inside in an effort to prevent tragedies like the shootings at Virginia Tech and Northern Illinois University.
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Missouri Struggles With Diversity on Campus
The University of Missouri continues to struggle with attracting minority students and retaining them through graduation, despite having large populations of minority groups in the state.
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BYU to Allow YouTube
Last week, Brigham Young University administrators lifted the school’s three year long ban on the YouTube web site.
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New Report Recommends Shakeup of Maine Universities
A task force established to look into the operations of the University of Maine System released a draft report last week that criticizes the system for wasteful spending and a lack of coordinated agenda and calls for a management shakeup.
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Northwestern to Address Racial Profiling Complaints
After renewed and vocal student complaints about racial profiling at Northwestern University, which in the past have been met with little action from school officials, administrators are proposing a new advisory board.
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Charges Against UCSB Professor Dismissed
University of California Santa Barbara sociology professor William Robinson will not face disciplinary action over student complaints regarding an e-mail message in which he compared recent Israeli actions to those of Nazis.
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Arizona to Alter Community College Transfer Model
On Friday, Ernest Caleron, President-elect of the Arizona Board of Regents surprised community college leaders by encouraging Arizona’s four year universities to allow students in certain majors to graduate after completing three years at a community college and only one at a four-year campus.
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DePaul Law Students Petition to Reinstate Dean
Students at DePaul University started an online petition—amassing 200 signatures in the first three hours—to reinstate Glen Weissenberger, Dean of the College of Law, after the University dismissed him on June 18.
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Catholic Colleges Push for New Guest Speaker Policy
After the controversy over President Barack Obama's speech at the University of Notre Dame's commencement ceremony this Spring, Presidents of the nations’ Catholic colleges are urging new direction for selecting guest speakers and honorees.
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WA Colleges Declare Financial Emergency
The Washington State Board for Community and Technical Colleges declared a state of financial emergency on Thursday citing cuts in state funding as a major reason. Under state law, the declaration makes it far easier for college presidents to lay off both full time and tenured faculty members.
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WWU Students Negotiate to Keep Bus Passes
On June 11, after negotiation from the Western Washington University and Student Government Association, Whatcom Transportation Authority (WTA) announced a possible deal with the University that would ensure a three-year continuation of the pre-paid universal bus pass for students.
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More Fallout Over Illinois Admissions Practices
After an investigation revealed that legislators and other politicians were able to influence admissions at the University of Illinois, the school suspended the office of government relations from having access to UI's Banner system, which includes student information, over concerns of possible violations of the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA).
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Salaries of University Officials Come Under Scrutiny
As legislators are cutting education budgets and tough economic times make it harder for students to afford tuition and fee hikes, some reporters are starting to scrutinize the salaries of top university officials. In multiple states, they are finding that top coaches and administrators are receiving surprising salaries and bonuses.
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Georgia Increases Percentage of Lecturers
Last month, the Georgia Board of Regents changed academic policy to raise the cap on the percentage of lecturers (rather than full faculty members) that can teach at the state’s public colleges.
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Another Campus Reduces Journalism Program
Pitt is joining a number of other campuses that have scaled back journalism programs. The University of Pittsburgh’s English department recently announced that in the following spring or fall 2010 semesters they will merge their creative nonfiction and journalism programs.
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Texas Votes to Limit Automatic Admissions
On Saturday night, the Texas Legislature voted to put limits on a program that gives automatic admission to state universities for Texas students who graduate in the top 10 percent of their high schools. The changes allow the University of Texas at Austin campus to limit automatic admission to 75 percent of the freshman class, but the school will not be allowed to have more than 10 percent of its freshman come from out of state.
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MSU Student Newspaper Wins Access Police Records
After a three-year legal battle, a judge ruled Michigan State University must hand over police documents to The State News after it requested the records through the Freedom of Information Act.
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Pennsylvania Student Claims School Stifled Pro-Gun Speech
After being told she couldn’t start a chapter of the national group Students for Concealed Carry on campus, a community college student in Pittsburgh is fighting what she sees as her school infringing on her rights to free speech.
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Kansas University Outsources Classes
Fort Hays State University has made arrangements to have some students take introductory courses with a private company which it will then list on students’ transcripts as being taken at Fort Hays State.
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CA Legislature Seeks to Remove Autonomy of UC System
California lawmakers plan to introduce legislation that would put the University of California System under regulation from state Legislature. The Senate and Assembly are proposing a constitutional amendment to allow the Legislature to enact statutes that affect policies at UC, similarly to the way it does with the California State University system.
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Liberty U Axes Recognition of College Dems
Liberty University revoked its recognition of the College Democrats, arguing that the club’s endorsement of Democratic candidates and affiliation with the national Democratic Party are contrary to Liberty’s values and student organization policies.
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Revisions to Texas Ten Percent Admission Law
The Texas House of Representatives has agreed to a compromise that will mean only the top eight percent of graduating Texas students will be automatically admitted to the University of Texas at Austin, rather than the top ten percent.
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UF Policies Make it Easier to Lay off Faculty
The University of Florida administration is trying to alter their regulations so that it will be easier to lay off members of their faculty and eliminate smaller academic subjects.
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Students Call for Multicultural Student Association Director’s Removal
An alliance of multicultural student organization leaders delivered a letter signed by 23 student leaders and a petition signed by more than 150 Northwestern students to NU administrators calling for the removal of the Executive Director of the Multicultural Student Association, Mrs. Caretta Cooke.
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Grad Students Question New Recreation Center Support
The Graduate and Professional Student Association (GPSA) urged the New Mexico Board of Regents to conduct a new review of student opinion before approving construction of the new recreation center for the University because of problems with the accuracy of the survey and student opposition to the project.
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Students Hold Bake Sales to Save Summer Classes
Students at Santa Ana College are desperate to save their summer classes from severe budget cuts, and after trying everything else are now holding bake sales in coordination with the Santa Ana College Foundation to save at least a few of the largest courses.
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Students vow 12 hours of silence to protest cuts
Playing off the National Day of Silence, which symbolizes how the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender community is marginalized, about 200 University of Florida students vowed silence for 12 hours and wore black shirts and surgical masks pasted with Day of Silence stickers this past week to protest program cuts.
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FSU students form group to preserve art programs
After the administration at Florida State University proposed to eliminate fine arts majors as part of budget cuts, students responded by forming Project the Arts to fight for the preservation of the university’s arts programs.
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Students Win Some Concessions in UW Move to Punish Off-Campus Conduct
The University of Wisconsin System added protections for students to its proposed student code of conduct regulations after student leaders with the statewide student association, the United Council of UW Students (UC) objected to earlier versions. The UW System is proposing amendments to the administrative code governing student conduct on and off campus to allow university officials to penalize students for off campus, non-academic discretions.
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Affirmative action: Bucknell stops protest
After shutting down a Bucknell University Conservatives Club (BUCC) “affirmative action bake sale” on April 7, the school's administration denied the group permission to hold its educational event over the past week.
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Students elect new campus leadership at American River College
After a jump in election turnout, from one percent of the student body to nine percent, students at American River College (California) have elected the opposition candidate for President of their Student Council. Students at the campus clashed this year over a series of votes from the politically and socially conservative Student Council leadership.
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Student Newspaper Sues Student Government at Montclair St. University
For the second time in two years, the student newspaper at Montclair St. University has enlisted the help of the ACLU to sue their Student Government Association. At issue now as well as last year is the SGA’s decision to hold closed meetings, denying students and the press access to the sessions or minutes.
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GW students propose smoking ban
Campus for Clean Air, an unofficial student group at George Washington University, is asking administrators to ban smoking on all campus property.
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Students Protest Drug Companies’ Influence at Harvard
Led by the campus chapter of the American Medical Student Association, more than 200 Harvard Medical School students and faculty are protesting and trying to expose and curb the influence they feel drug companies have over teaching and research at the school.
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Students Split Over Spending Student Fees on a New Sports Arena
Increasing numbers of campus student governments are being asked to use student activity fees to fund construction and other costs that had in the past been covered by administration-controlled budgets. At Bowling Green State University, a group of students--the Coalition for Undergraduate Student Government Reform—is challenging both the Undergraduate Student Government (USG) decision to levy a $60 per semester fee to pay for the new sports arena, the Stroh Center, and the effectiveness of student representation by USG.
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President Gets Pay Raise as Budgets Cut
Students, faculty and staff at Southwestern College packed themselves into an overcrowded board meeting last week to criticize a recent pay raise for President Raj K. Chopra.
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Health Insurance Company Will Pay Students $5.1 Million
Aetna Insurance will reimburse more than 73,000 students’ health insurance claims at over 200 colleges nationwide to the tune of $5.1 million in accordance with the terms of a settlement of charges brought by NY Attorney General Andrew Cuomo.
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Students Work for “Sensible” Campus Drug Policies
Students for a Sensible Drug Policy was founded to challenge the federal policy which prohibits upwards of 200,000 students with drug convictions from getting governmental financial aid. While continuing to work on the federal level, students involved with SSDP are also focusing on campus drug policies.
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The Columbia Chronicle Takes Up the Call for Students
Columbia College students enrolled in Audio, Arts and Acoustics Department courses share more than just an interest in sound art and science. According to an investigation by the Columbia Chronicle, approximately 50 students in the department have expressed concerns dealing with “lack of equipment, low retention rates, unsanitary learning conditions, managerial problems and teaching environments not standard to Columbia.”
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Campus Groups Criticize Constitution Proposal
For any student government it's important that their organizational structures facilitate work beneficial to the student body . The current leadership of the Associated Students of Madison at the University of Wisconsin-Madison is proposing the creation of an executive branch which many student leaders see as far too powerful.
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Students Protest “Anything Goes” Budget Policy
Students in Nashville are speaking out against the recent vote by the Tennessee Board of Regents to allow college Presidents to use whatever means necessary to ensure that schools do not go over budget this fiscal school year.
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Students Stand Up for Fired Staff
When the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute administration fired almost 100 college employees in an effort to improve its financial situation, RPI students took action.
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Corruption on Campus
Campus communities trust police forces to “serve and protect,” but that trust has been diminished for many Colorado State University students by the recent controversy surrounding the suspension of CSU Police Chief, Dexter Yarbrough.
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Faculty Pay ‘by Applause Meter’
Texas A&M University is implementing a new way of rewarding professors. The new system, which will be piloted at three of the University’s campuses, offers bonuses of up to $10,000 to professors who receive the highest marks from student evaluations.
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MADD Mad About Amethyst Initiative
Since the July 2008 launch of the controversial Amethyst Initiative — the signatory campaign of university and college presidents who support the consideration of a lower drinking age — the campaign has been cheered and jeered by parents, students and campus administrators. Most recently both national and local anti drug campaigns, including powerhouse Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) and small fries such as the Nevada, California based Coalition for a Drug Free Nevada County, are speaking out against the initiative.
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Scandal Hits Syracuse Basketball, Again
Syracuse University basketball guard Eric Devendorf was suspended at the beginning of December for striking a female student in the face. This incident comes only two months after David Potter, a former associate Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, resigned from SU alleging he had been forced out due to his non compliance in the cover up of a sexual assault perpetrated by three SU Orangemen, also on the basketball team.
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New School Sit In Successful
Last Friday, exhausted New School students emerged victorious after a 30-hour protest. The students occupied the cafeteria in response to a number of unpopular positions held by President Bob Kerrey.
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A Draft For Freedom
Catholic University of America’s Student Association General Assembly is the latest addition to the growing list of student governments to draft a Student Bill of Rights.
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Maryland’s Deficit Means Time Off For Profs
The Board of Regents for Maryland’s state university system is enacting “short-term furloughs” (unpaid leave) for more than 22,000 university employees in order to save the state $16 million.
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Yale’s Endowment Down 25 Percent
One of the oldest names in education, Yale University, has lost a quarter of its endowment since the start of June, reducing it’s holdings from $22.9 billion to $17 billion.
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Student governments weigh in on same-sex marriage
This past week students at Princeton University voted against a ballot measure calling on the University to publicly decry Prop 8. Also last week, the University of Maryland’s Student Government Association unanimously passed a resolution in support of same-sex marriage.
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Students Protest Dorm Conditions
More than 100 students packed themselves into the office of the president of Shaw University in Raleigh, North Carolina last week to protest the inferior condition of their dorms.
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Drunken Pirate Denies Student a Degree
Stacy Snyder of Millersville University was denied a degree in education as well as teaching certificate due to a MySpace photo that showed her dressed like a pirate and drinking from a plastic cup.
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Colorado State President Penley Resigns
Colorado State University President Larry Penley submitted his letter of resignation to the school’s Board of Governors on Wednesday. Penley’s abrupt move was welcomed by some members of the student government, who made no secret of their dislike for the president’s business practices in the wake of an attempted tuition hike in 2007.
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Students Protest Faculty and Staff Firings
Last week a group of 30 students at the non-traditional Martin University in Indianapolis – which serves adult, minority, and low-income students – held a protest over the dismissal of university employees.
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No Affirmative Action Means Fewer Minorities
With the passing of the Affirmative Action Ban in 2006, which stated that there could be no race or gender-based affirmative action, the number of minority students accepted to college has dropped in recent years.
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AlcoholEdu: Making Students More Aware
Alcohol use and college are thought of as kith n kin, however a new education program, AlcoholEdu, is making students more aware of the dangers of alcohol use and abuse.
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Colleges Offering Partner Benefits
The percentage of colleges offering domestic partner benefits grew gradually in 2007/2008 — a year in which the benefits received intense scrutiny from critics of gay marriage.
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Wesleyan Students Weigh In
A special committee formed by Wesleyan University has issued a report detailing an event that occurred last May in which campus police and students were unable to see eye-to-eye.
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Political Student Groups Get Funding
The Student Senate at the University of Notre Dame has passed a resolution allowing the three political campus groups, the College Republicans, the College Democrats and the College Libertarians, to use their school funding to support their presidential candidates this fall.
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Student-Athletes Benefits Go Beyond Average Students
The debate as to whether or not student athletes are being given higher grades and accepted to easier classes in order to maintain a high grade point average is one that takes place on campuses across the country.
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Full House
It’s not just the soaring tuition fees that students all over the country are dealing with nowadays —housing has also become a headache.
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Students Protest Smoking Ban
The chancellor of Pennsylvania's 14 state universities has expanded the state's new indoor smoking ban to include outdoor areas on campus.
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Texas Colleges Don’t Like Ike
Many colleges along the Gulf coast of Texas closed in anticipation of the arrival of Hurricane Ike this past weekend.
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Students Search for Higher Standard
The Amherst College Counseling Center under scrutiny because of the recent suicide of an Amherst student. Friends, student government members and fellow students have all rallied together in order to ensure the center is doing a proper job.
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Outreach to Students With Depression
After campus shootings at Virginia Tech and Northern Illinois University shed light on the lack of support systems for mentally ill students, campuses across the country began working to improve their services and extend ongoing support to students who show signs of depression.
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Credit Should Stay in Class
Aggressive marketing to college students from credit card companies has drawn national attention in recent months. Schools and students alike are becoming wary of credit card recruiters on campus, offering students free food and prizes for filling out credit card applications.
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UCLA Professor Accuses Administration of Illegal Affirmative Action
Tim Groseclose, a professor of political science at the University of California-Los Angeles recently resigned from the admissions committee because he suspected officials of illegally admitting more black students than normal, claiming that officers were influenced by students’ essays which mentioned race.
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Gustav Blasts Baton Rouge
Last week Hurricane Gustav hit Baton Rouge hard, leaving the Louisiana State University campus and the city with much damage. The campus sustained $40 million in damages.
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San Diego State Drug Bust Recap
When a San Diego State University freshman died of a cocaine overdose last May, the campus police launched what would become one of the nation’s largest campus drug busts: Operation Sudden Fall.
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Gustav No Match for Students
This week hurricane Gustav threatened the city of New Orleans almost 3 years to the day after hurricane Katrina devastated the city. New Orleans officials displayed efficient and effective emergency preparedness, particularly at area universities and colleges.
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Illinois Campus Safety Bill
Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich signed a bill this week to require college and university campuses throughout the state to plan for and practice responses to all types of emergencies.
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Normal is Novel
A new six-year study at the University of Virginia has found that educating students about the extent to which their peers actually drink results in significant reductions in alcohol-related drama on campus.In other alcohol-related news, the Amethyst Initiative—a growing movement of chancellors and presidents of colleges and universities across the country working to lower the drinking age to 18—is stirring things up considerably.
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Florida Toys With Community College System Overhaul
Recent legislation in Florida has initiated what could be a complete overhaul of the state’s community college system. A pilot program has been launched to allow community colleges to apply to become part of the Florida College System and offer four-year degrees.
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Critical Campus Media? Sounds Like a Case for the FBI
Officials at Cambridge College in Massachusetts recently hired a former FBI agent to find out who is behind an anonymous mock newspaper that bashed college leaders. Copies of the mock newspaper were mailed in June to faculty members, donors, an accrediting group, news-media outlets, and members of the college’s Board of Trustees.
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Transportation Accessibility Act
The California State Senate Higher Education committee unanimously approved assembly Bill 1980, the Peralta Transportation Accessibility Act and California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger signed it into law on July 18.
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Global Campus
Colleges and universities across the country have begun taking steps to expand their campuses overseas in India, China, and the Middle East as education becomes one of the most demanded exports that English-speaking countries can offer growing markets abroad.
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Campus Shootings Shake Summer Sessions
Early last week two individuals were shot on the NC State campus. South Mountain Community College in Phoenix, Arizona also fell victim to a shooting last week when a gunman injured three people in a computer lab on campus.
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Higher Education Act Puts Students First
Five years in the making, the Higher Education Act is finally moving through the House and Senate floors with a vote expected as early as this week. The bill has been up for renewal since 2003, and is intended to expand student lending services and to make higher education more affordable and accessible to students.
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Young America’s Foundation Solomon Suit Dropped
A District Court Judge in Washington D.C recently dismissed a lawsuit filed by the Young America’s Foundation last month seeking to compel the Department of Defense to revoke federal aid to the University of California at Santa Cruz for alleged violation of the Solomon Amendment.
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Young America’s Foundation Solomon Suit Dropped
A District Court Judge in Washington D.C recently dismissed a lawsuit filed by the Young America’s Foundation last month seeking to compel the Department of Defense to revoke federal aid to the University of California at Santa Cruz for alleged violation of the Solomon Amendment.
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California Accounts For Its Own Accountability
University of California President Mark Yudof has announced to the UC Board of Regents his plan to launch a new accountability program to monitor the university’s progress. The program is intended to better analyze the system’s performance and to provide helpful data for prospective students and legislators.
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Social Security For All to See
The University of Maryland Department of Transportation Services accidentally printed the social security numbers of nearly 24,000 students on mailing labels for parking brochures.
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Students to Select SAT Scores
Beginning in March 2009, high school students will be able to decide which SAT scores to send to colleges, according to the College Board which administers the standardized test.
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UC Workers on Strike
After an extended series of negotiations over the past year, University of California laborers across ten UC campuses and five medical centers began a five-day strike on Monday July 14 in demand of higher wages.
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Student Leaders Receive Compensation
For student leaders on campus, balancing extracurricular activities and schoolwork can be a full-time job. For students in leadership roles in student government, it’s often difficult to fulfill their roles and stay on top of their academics while also holding down a job to support themselves. As a result, many student governments provide compensation to a select group of leaders in an effort to make sure no students are excluded from campus leadership due to financial concerns.
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UI Flood Damages Increase
This past Tuesday, the University of Iowa’s risk management professionals, along with FM Global, the university's main insurance carrier, compiled new assessment figures of the flood damage done to the campus.
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Digitally Doctored Diversity
A recent study conducted by a sociology professor at Augsburg College in Minnesota found that colleges and universities across the country are misrepresenting campus diversity by printing brochures and promotional literature that portray greater campus diversity than actually exists.
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U Iowa Offers Grants and Funding Aid to Flood-Affected Students
The University of Iowa has recently extended financial support to students affected by the flooding thanks to thousands of individual donations made to the UI Foundation’s Flood Relief Fund. The Office of Student Financial Aid announced on Tuesday that it will make financial support available to students through short-term loans and grants.
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First-Generation Students Attending College at Higher Rates
Recent studies show that more first-generation students (students whose parents have received no education beyond high school) are pouring into the country's community colleges and universities than ever before. In many cases, first-generation students are the children of immigrants or immigrants themselves.
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Iraqi Student Project
As the Iraq war rages on, access to higher education for Iraq’s undergraduate students has become nearly impossible.
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Can You Sue a Printer for Copyright Infringement?
Computer scientists at the University of Washington recently published a study that revealed that the procedures used by entertainment companies to identify copyright infringement are less than accurate.
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UC Commencement Speakers Cancel for Union
Six University of California commencement speakers have cancelled their appearances in support of the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees, a union representing over 20,000 UC employees, in their ongoing labor dispute with the UC System.
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Antioch College Desperately Fights for Future
In June 2007 the Board of Trustees at Antioch University in Yellow Springs, Ohio voted to close the college this spring due to a budget crisis caused by low enrollment and a dwindling endowment that left the school overly dependent on tuition proceeds.
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Student Rep. to U. Missouri Board May Get Vote
On May 16th, after nearly 12 years of fighting for the issue, the Associated Students of the University of Missouri succeeded in passing a bill through the Missouri legislature giving voting power to the student representative on the University of Missouri’s governing board.
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Report Details Changes to Campus Safety after Virginia Tech
A new report written by the Midwestern Higher Education Compact investigates changes made by campuses to improve campus safety after the Virginia Tech tragedy last April. The authors surveyed campuses across the country to learn what changes campuses did and did not make.
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Strike looms on California Campuses
Hospital and service employees of the University of California system voted this weekend to authorize a strike beginning next week if the UC does not agree to increase wages.
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Student Health Insurance Really Ensured?
Student health insurance policies are raising questions – and eyebrows – across the country as students and parents are realizing that school-recommended health plans are not always the best bet.
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Gun Seller Speaks at Virginia Tech, Advocates Concealed Carry
Eric Thompson, owner of the online firearms store TGSCOM that sold one of the guns used by Seung-Hui Cho in the Virginia Tech massacre, and two of the guns used by Steven Kazmierczak in the Northern Illinois University shootings, recently spoke at Virginia Tech in support of concealed carry on campus.
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UW Milwaukee SGA Elections Clouded with Controversy
April brings student government elections to campuses across the country and with them election controversies. The controversy at UW Milwaukee has raised the bar - the Wisconsin ACLU called them a “sham.”
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Campus Press Considering Independence
As part of an ongoing discussion, and in light of a recent inflammatory satire published in the University of Colorado’s student newspaper, The Campus Press, university administrators, faculty and student journalists met last week to discuss the future of the publication and the possibility of The Campus Press declaring independence from the university.
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Addressing At-risk Students
Following recent campus shootings, many campus administrations are taking steps to ensure the safety of students on campus, including monitoring at-risk students.
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Prejudice on Campus
The Williams Record recently investigated a slew of hate crimes on campuses across the nation. The Record spoke with students and administrators at Yale, Amherst, and CU Boulder and examined how schools are reacting to these bias-related incidences, and what this means for college diversity.
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Students Fight for Professor’s Tenure
Protesting a recent ruling to deny tenure to Visiting Associate Professor Ken Miller, a small group of psychology students have decided to take matters into their own hands.
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Unfair Fees
The Christian Legal Society has filed a complaint against the University of South Carolina in federal district court, alleging that the university’s student organization funding system violates the First Amendment.
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Shootings Continue, Campus Safety Calls
The University of North Carolina’s student body president, Eve Carson, was shot and killed last Wednesday early in the morning as she withdrew money from an ATM.
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Bringing Student Governments Together
The Coalition of Chicago Colleges (CCC), a new group founded by sophomore Jarrod Wolf at the University of Chicago, will meet for the first time this Thursday to bring together representatives from local student governments, including DePaul University, Columbia College, the Illinois Institute of Technology, Loyola University, Northwestern University, Roosevelt University, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the University of Illinois.
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Students React to NIU Shooting
As students continue to grapple with the recent tragedy at Northern Illinois University, support for the victims and families of last week’s shooting has been pouring out from campuses all over the country.
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More Health Care, Anyone?
For many students entering college, the campus health insurance policy is the most convenient option.
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Shooting at Northern Illinois University
Tragedy struck the campus of Northern Illinois University yesterday when former-student Stephen Kazmierczak opened fire on a geology class, killing five people before taking his own life.
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Model UN
More than 300 delegates from 22 countries gathered at the Doha Marriott in Qatar for the third annual Model United Nations Conference, sponsored by the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service Qatar.
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Student Council Prioritizes Affordable Textbooks
The University of Virginia’s Student Life Committee recently presented a piece of legislation to the Student Council encouraging faculty to support the university bookstore's buyback and rental programs, which could allow students to purchase their textbooks for a reduced price.
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Battle over file sharing moves to new arenas
Since February, the Recording Industry Associates of America has been using aggressive new legal tactics to stop illegal file sharing on campus, as documented by the Columbia Spectator. One tactic - threatening universities with legal action if they do not reveal the identities of students shown to be file sharing through their IP address – was recently successfully challenged in federal court by a student at George Washington University.
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Students work for input in selection of System President
The University of California system is in the process of hiring a new System President, and students are working to make sure they have input in the decision. The University of California Student Association, a statewide network of UC student governments, recently met with the UC Regents’ search committee to present their concerns.
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Officers cleared in Florida tasering incident
An investigation in the tasering of a University of Florida student at a speech by John Kerry has found that the campus police acted appropriately. The student, Andrew Meyer, has recently accepted an 18 month probation period from the State Attorney’s office instead of facing charges of disturbing the peace and resisting arrest.
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Students vote on student fees
Students at the University of North Carolina are voting this week to determine whether students should vote on future student fee increases
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Students speak out on Sodexho
The Howard University Student Association hosted its second monthly “Put It On Blast” event, inviting members of the community to speak out on campus issues. A panel made up of Sodexho employees heard a variety of complaints, from food quality to price to cleanliness concerns.
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Close vote on American Red Cross blood drive policy
The Speaker of the Senate of the University of Vermont student government cast the tie-breaking vote on a resolution banning American Red Cross (ARC) blood drives on campus because of their policies deferring donations from gay men.
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RIAA pursues student downloaders
The Recording Industry Association of America continues to send “pre-litigation” letters to college campuses, including IP addresses accused of illegally downloading music, asking universities to identify the responsible students
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Party fund showdown
Harvard administrators and Undergraduate Council (UC) are squaring off over the “party fund” which the UC allocates to student groups to host social events.
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Investing student activity fees
The Tufts Community Union, the student government at Tufts, already invests a certain amount of student activities fees each year. This years student treasurer wants to move more money out of the lower risk and lower profit CDs into higher risk, higher profit investments
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Student rental guide
Reacting to complaints about apartment conditions and given the fact that many students are first-time apartment renters, the student government at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln is working to produce a rental guide for students.
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Students protest Sodhexo prices
As the University of Illinois, Chicago transitions to using Sodexho as its new food service provider, their newspaper, the Flame, looks at nearby Northeastern Illinois University.
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Fee transparency in Oregon
On many college campuses, fees are increasingly being used to cover costs traditionally covered by tuition – leading student advocates to question whether some student fees are a hidden tuition hike. The Oregon Student Association worked last year to get the Oregon University System to undertake a comprehensive review of student fee policy, and the committee, which includes students, is now beginning its work.
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Students sink new college logo with Facebook group
When Middlebury College unveiled the proposal for a new logo, it was caught off guard by a quick and overpowering protest on Facebook. The group’s members objected to the logo because they felt that it is too corporate and that students weren’t consulted in its design.
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Student veterans organize support, advocacy group
Student veterans at the University of Michigan have created a new organization to help veterans transition back into civilian and student life, as well as to advocate for higher education benefits for veterans.
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Community members protest campus Housing
Undergraduate, Graduate and International students joined together to protest the poor housing conditions at “Forest Park,” an on-campus housing community at the University of New Hampshire.
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UC System Considers, Rejects, Tobacco Funding Ban
The Assembly of the Academic Senate of the University of California adopted a resolution that opposes a proposed policy that would prohibit the university from accepting research funding from tobacco companies.
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Protests Over Honorary Degree
The University of Massachusetts has decided to award an honorary degree to former White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card, drawing a host of responses from the campus community.
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Questions Surround Suspension
There’s controversy brewing among students and university officials at Ohio University, where an aviation student was recently suspended for “threatening other students and university personnel,” reportedly carrying a gun and knife onto campus.
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Assignment: Human Rights
Students at Southern Methodist University will now have the option of minoring in human rights.
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The Role of Government
Dartmouth University’s Student Assembly spent their 2006–2007 year trying to be more of “an advocacy group on behalf of students as opposed to another programming board.”
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Activism Pays Off
Saint Louis University has announced that it will join the Workers' Rights Consortium, an organization that strives to protect the rights of workers around the world, as a result of an eight-year student campaign.
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Questions at Middlebury
A Middlebury College student who was unhappy with recent changes to the college residence life program began a petition to voice her feelings. But when she used the all-campus email to promote the petition (a misuse of the system), she found herself facing disciplinary action.
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Do As I Say…
Following news that an MIT administrator was asked to resign over her falsified resume, faculty, staff, and student integrity is the focus of a good deal of student news.
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Charges May Be Dropped
The Daily Free Press of Boston University reports that Harvard University has asked for the charges against four students to be dropped. The four were arrested for heckling FBI Director Robert Mueller.
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University Changes Sexual Assault Policy
Students at the University of Chicago will have an easier time navigating the red tape and other administrative barriers after being sexually assaulted, thanks to a policy change. Students will now be streamlined through a system after reporting an assault.
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Fraternity Clashes with Admins Over Charity Event
The Phi Kappa Psi fraternity at SUNY’s Binghamton University had to postpone their event, a boxcar race featuring homemade cars that would have raised money for a scholarship for Binghamton High School graduates. The fraternity says the fees to hold events on campus are too expensive for some student groups, especially those wanting to raise money for a charity.
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Student Group Plans to 'Stop PSU'
A website dedicated to students' rights, which was started by students at Penn State University, will become a full-fledged student group in the fall. The group hopes that by becoming a student group, they can be more effective in changing policy they believe infringes on students' rights.
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Medical Students Fight for Abortion Rights
A group of medical students at the University of Arizona, Medical Students for Choice, is fighting a 1974 bill that included a several million-dollar expansion of the school's stadium, but also outlawed abortions from being performed on campus.
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Call Me
American University’s paper reports that the NCAA has banned text messaging between coaches and recruits, following concerns that some were abusing the previously unregulated medium. At American University, coach and player opinions vary as to how much the bans will affect teams.
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Colorado In Connerly’s Sites
Colorado is one of a handful of states set in the sites of Ward Connerly, a wealthy California businessman pushing for Colorado, Arizona, Oklahoma, and Missouri to stop minority preference in education, business, and employment.
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Student Workers Protest to Unionize
About 20 members of Associated Students UCLA (ASUCLA) staged a sit-in in the street just outside the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books. The student workers were demonstrating for the right to join the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees, or AFSCME, Local 3299.
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GLBT Community Pushes for Single Sex Bathrooms
The gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender community at Syracuse University is working to make more bathrooms on campus “all-gender” restrooms, in order to make transgender and gender-nonconforming students more comfortable at school.
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The Role of Student Government
The Associated Students of the University of New Mexico (ASUNM) debated the role of student government when a senator proposed a resolution dealing with international issues.
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Peeping Toms
Students for Sensible Drug Policy at the University of Maryland are accusing University Police of overstepping bounds after an officer attempted to join SSDP’s Facebook group under an assumed name.
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Controversy at the University of Iowa
The arrest and public naming of a student who wore a ski mask during class on a cold and rainy day has raised serious questions in the University community over the handling of the situation.
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Little White Lie
The Dean of Admissions at MIT resigned after it was discovered that she had misrepresented her education when applying to MIT nearly three decades ago—and never corrected the lie.
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Students Fight for ROTC
Students at Brown University have formed a new group, “Advocates for Brown ROTC.” The group advocates for the Reserve Officer Training Corps to be reinstituted at the University.
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No Place Like Home
On the heels of a housing crunch that left University of Maryland students camping on lawns in protest of their lack of on campus housing, Trinity College has announced that about half of the class of 2009 will not be offered on-campus housing due to an oversized class of 2010.
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Designated Driver Program Stalled
The Associated Students of the University of Arizona are trying to implement a program that would pick up intoxicated students and escort them to their homes, but are running into difficulties finding sponsors to fund the service.
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From the University of Kentucky Board of Trustees
The UK Board of Trustees has announced that agendas will be released a full day in advance of meetings, reversing and earlier decision that limited public access to the agendas. In other news, the Board has also voted to extend the University's benefits package to domestic partners.
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The Times Are a-Changing
An article from Syracuse University reports that an Ohio community college is requiring students to fulfill an online course requirement to graduate.
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Students Debate Achievement Index
Students at the University of North Carolina are in the midst of a heated debate on a new system of ranking students, the Achievement Index.
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Student Speak Out on Staffing Decisions
Students are paying close attention to, and weighing in on, administrative hiring decisions—especially in cases where beloved faculty or staff have their contracts terminated.
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Student Hunger Strike Ends
Student members of the Stanford Labor Action Coalition ended their hunger strike after reaching an agreement with the University President.
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Unused Meals No Longer Donated
Arizona State University’s food provider, Sodexho, went back on a promise to donate the monetary equivalent of unused meals from ASU’s mandatory meal plan for student who chose to participate in the donation program.
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In the Line of Firings
Four members of the faculty of Northeastern University’s College of Arts and Sciences did not have their contracts renewed because they did not hold the highest degrees in their fields. Students, for their part, are rallying around the fired professors.
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Bad News For Bikes, Boards
Skateboarders and BMX bikers at the University of Tennessee protested a bill that would ban the use of BMX bikes and skateboards on the University's courtyard.
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Bad News For Bikes, Boards
Skateboarders and BMX bikers at the University of Tennessee protested a bill that would ban the use of BMX bikes and skateboards on the University's courtyard.
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Everyone Wants Arabic
Mirroring national trends, the number of students taking Arabic courses at Northwestern University has quadrupled since 2001. With only two professors teaching the courses and such high demand, Northwestern is having a hard time accommodating everyone.
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Student Activists Fast For Action
Student activists from the Stanford Labor Action Coalition (SLAC) are entering their seventh day of fasting to represent their concerns with the University’s living wage policy, which they believe is unfair.
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Applicants Can Choose Multiple Races by 2009
Applicants to the University of Illinois will be able to choose multiple races on their admissions applications by 2009, hopefully eliminating confusion and internal conflict that biracial or multiracial students may experience.
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SA Resists Smoking Ban
Administrators at Syracuse University have plans to make the campus smoke-free by 2009, but have already hit a block as the SU Student Association rejected a proposal to limit smoking to more than 25 feet away from buildings.
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Housing Struggle
Students at the University of Maryland are instituting several plans to fight the University's decision to boot more than 600 upperclassmen from campus housing to make room for incoming students.
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The Adjunct Issue
Why should you care if your professors are adjuncts? An article from the University of Rhode Island explores the up-sides, and the down-sides, of adjunct professorships.
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Mi Casa Es Su Casa?
Administrators at the University of Washington have proposed an expansion of the University's authority into the neighborhoods surrounding the school. The proposal would make students living in those neighborhoods subject to the University's disciplinary actions in an attempt to soothe town-gown relations.
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Adjusting the Bus Schedule
The Network of Future Executives at Duke University, fed up with buses on campus, is working to persuade the University to install GPS trackers on buses—allowing students to get an up-to-the-minute map of buses on the route.
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Paper Tiger
A student at Brown University, annoyed by the University's transition to an online course registration system, hopes to send a message to University officials by creating and printing a course list for the fall semester.
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Northeastern to Consider Divestment
Following student pressure and the example of forty-one other colleges and universities, the Board of Trustees of Northeastern University announced that they plan to “look into” endowment investment procedures over the coming months.
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Who’s In Your Dorm?
The Missouri State House of Representatives is considering a bill would ban sex offenders from dorms in state schools.
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Amnesty, Anyone?
A student at the College of William and Mary called 911 after seeing that his roommate was vomiting blood. Despite the University's new amnesty policy regarding students and alcohol, the underage student was punished because he had alcohol in his room.
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Campus Police to be Equipped with Tasers
The Ohio University Police Department is being outfitted with five-watt tasers. The non-lethal weapon may be used in any situation where pepper spray is warranted, causing some stirs in the student body.
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College: The New High School
A Rutgers University professor has banned cell phones from his classroom, with one notable exception: students who have a cell phone in class can put it on his desk in the beginning of class, to receive it after class is over.
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A Georgetown-Worthy GPA
An article from the College of William and Mary looks at the controversy surrounding the recent revelation of a Georgetown basketball player's less-than-stellar high school transcripts.
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Stealing to Find Plagiarists?
Four high school students are suing the parent company of the plagarism-detection site TurnItIn.com for storing their work without permission, allegedly violating privacy laws.
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Ivy Leagues Getting Ivier?
At least two of the nation’s top schools had record numbers of applicants—and record-low acceptance rates.
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… And Rock & Roll
While many colleges forward letters warning against illegal downloads, Bently College and Washington Univeristy are taking a different approach to protecting their students from the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).
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Sex, Drugs…
A couple at Harvard College has started an abstinence group that now has over a hundred members. Tired of drunken or stoned roommates, students from Columbia University created Students for Substance Free Space.
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Former Sorority Member Shares Experiences
A former member of Alpha Chi Omega at Purdue University is profiled in this Exponent article. The student shares her experiences of discrimination by the sorority in the wake of the DePauw sorority scandal.
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It’s A Man’s World
Programs at the University of Maryland and Columbia University tried to level the playing field in academic diciplines that are still more heavily male.
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Students Dodge Tuition Hike
Colorado State University President Larry Penley tried to persuade Colorado lawmakers to change the full-time student assessment from 9 credit hours to 12, and the Associated Students of CSU (ASCSU) cried foul.
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Sports Versus Education?
Following the announcement that the University of New Mexico had signed a six-year contract with basketball coach Steve Alford, UNM’s paper the Daily Lobo weighs the costs and benefits of a winning team in an institution whose mission is still fundamentally educational.
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Mixed-Gender Housing a Hit at NYU
Mixed-gender housing at NYU is becoming more and more popular among the student population—applications to the program increased more than three times since last year.
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Students Petition Religious Life
A group of students at Princeton University has started circulating a petition asking the University President to reconsider his decision against granting the Hasidic Jewish student group Chabad a chaplaincy position at the Office of Religious Life.
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Students Protest Firings
A small group of students at the University of Southern California protested the firing of the student staff of an on-campus bar, Traditions.
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Guildford Students’ Charges Dropped
Police in Greensboro N.C. have dropped charges against six Guilford College students arrested after a January incident put three Palestinian students in the hospital.
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Safer Spring Break Being Cut Out
The University of Colorado’s Safer Spring Break, hosted by the Student Wellness Program, is in its last year of life. The festival to promote health and wellness—along with many other programs—is meeting its demise due to budget cuts.
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Science Students Find Harder Time Studying Abroad
Students majoring in the sciences have a harder time studying abroad. ost science majors have rigid requirements and often courses must be taken in sequence, making many science students feel “under represented” in study abroad programs.
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Student Government Answers Students’ Call
The Student Government Board at the University of Pittsburgh held a meeting last week to discuss ways to make the GLBT community on campus more tolerated and comfortable.
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Concerning Health Care
The Student Government of the University of Iowa considered making health insurance universal, but failed to agree on a resolution. Two students at Brandeis University are working to get the HPV vaccine covered by the school's student insurance, MegaLife.
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On Student Governance
Most administrators, faculty, and student leaders can agree that quality student leadership is important. But many schools find that the formula for strong candidates and an invested electorate can be elusive.
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Refusing to Play with the RIAA
The Digital Freedom Campaign (DFC) asked the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) to educate students on illegal file sharing rather than launching lawsuits, and the University of Wisconsin Madison is refusing to pass along the RIAA’s legal letters to students.
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Facebook Bet Could Cost ASU’s Guard
Shane Kuyper, a guard on Arizona State University’s men’s basketball team, didn’t see any harm in filling out a bracket on Facebook for March Madness—until he realized the club he joined had members wager five dollars into a pool.
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Faculty Shortage Causes Hassle
A faculty shortage at the University of Connecticut has caused many students not to get the classes they need for their majors, postponing graduation in some cases.
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Budget Proposal Examined
The Campus Press at the University of Colorado Boulder takes a close look at the University Student Union’s budget proposal in a multi-part series.
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Florida at Howard?
Results from the Howard University Student Association elections had not been released at the time of the next day's newspaper printing (from which this article comes).
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Voting Records for Brown
Brown University’s Undergraduate Council of Students (UCS) has decided to track its members’ voting records on all non-unanimous decisions.
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Student Senate to Lower Pot Penalty
Some members of the new student government at the University of Maryland will push for drug-related policy reform when their session commences next year.
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NCAA Makes Clear Facebook Pool Policy
The NCAA has clarified its policy regarding athlete participation in the pools that are showing up on Facebook now that the NCAA Basketball Tournament is beginning.
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New Competition Will Promote Student Arts
St. Joseph University’s University Student Senate voted to create an arts competition, with the dual purpose of beautifying the campus and promoting students’ artistic achievements.
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The Chief Is Dead
The University of Illinois Board of Trustees ratified the decision to end the tradition of Chief Illiniwek last week, putting the last nail in Chief Illiniwek's coffin.
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Sorority Reacts to Discrimination Claims
North Carolina State University’s Delta Zeta chapter supports the Delta Zeta Nationals’ decision to request that 23 of the DePauw University chapter’s members accept alumnae status, according to their chapter president.
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Activist Lessons from the Gender-Equality Movement
All gender identities and expressions will be protected under Swarthmore College’s Equal Opportunity Policy, thanks in no small part to student efforts. Pomona College's student group TRANScend has gone back to work in procuring gender-neutral bathrooms for their campus. Faculty members say the delay in the campaign’s progress comes from past inaction on the part of the student group itself.
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Illiniwek Debate Continues, Even In Death
The University of Illinois Board of Trustees will vote on the ratification of the decision to remove Chief Illiniwek as their mascot, as controversy over the Feb. 16 decision rages on. Another resolution before the Board takes the opposite track.
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Students Protest Choice of Speaker
The College Democrats at St. Mary's College protested their administration's choice of Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito as commencement speaker, saying the choice is polarizing and does not represent the student body's identity.
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Group Pushes for Socially Conscious Investment
Pomona College’s Sustainable Endowment Coalition (SEC) is urging the Associated Students of Pomona College (ASPC) Senate to invest its $400,000 surplus with a socially responsible investment firm.
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Where's Waskar?
The University of Nebraska Lincoln is experiencing some unusual—though not unique—problems in bring a professor from abroad.
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Student Government Elections See Divergent Turnout Results
As student government elections are held across the nation, student participation continues to vary. The results are not without a pattern, however; student governments that make concerted efforts to raise voter turnout seem to see success.
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That's Madame President
A Tufts Daily article takes a look at female university leaders in light of Harvard University's appointment of its first female President.
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Black Groups to Lobby Admissions Board
Some black student groups at Boston University are planning to lobby their school’s admissions board in favor of a black recruitment weekend. The groups, who met at the Black Student Union, are concerned about low African American representation at the school.
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Gender-Neutral Housing Gets More Support
The Undergraduate Senate of American University passed a gender-neutral housing resolution, becoming the latest in a wave of student governments to show their support for the housing option.
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Tax-Free Textbooks (& SGA Reforms)
The latest in the tax-free textbooks movement comes from the University of Georgia. On an unrelated but important front, this article also covers a proposal that would essentially forbid slates in student government campaigns at that school.
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Students Protest Strip Purchase
Students and business representatives rallied around their favorite hangout after the University of Alabama purchased the restaurant-filled strip. Students, organized by the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) held a Save the Strip Walkout prior to the rally.
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Student Government Supports Walkout
The Rutgers College Governing Association passed a resolution in favor of the Great Rutgers Walkout, a student demonstration against the War in Iraq.
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On the Agenda
A new controversy has been brewing at the University of Kentucky, where the Board of Trustees voted to restrict access to their meeting agendas.
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Students Protest Exam
Nursing students at Howard University walked out of their second Leadership and Management exam after concerns expressed after the first exam went unanswered.
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Student Senate Passes Hate Crime Protocol
The Student Senate of the University of New Hampshire passed a “Bias Response Protocol” resolution, a step toward creating an organized response to bias and hate crimes on that campus.
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Gender Gap at Grad School
A Stanford Daily article explores the gender gap at their Graduate School of Business (GSB) as well as in the business world. At Stanford, women comprise a mere 32 percent of the GSB.
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Skipping Class
Think a professor not showing up to class for a month would be a breeze?
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Get Out and Vote (For Student Government)
During this year's elections for their Undergraduate Student Government at Arizona State University, students and candidates gathered to encourage students to vote.
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Reform Jewish Leadership Conference
Reform Chavurah, Washington University’s Reform Jewish student group, is hosting a conference for the student leaders of Reform Judaism from across the country.
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Navigating The Law (So You Don't Have To)
Students at Duke University have formed a group that collects information from past Judicial Affairs cases and matches students with free or low-cost legal representation.
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Residence Halls Vote to Decrease Pot Penalty
The Residence Halls Association at the University of Maryland has voted to decrease the penalty for possession of marijuana in an on-campus dorm from potential eviction to the same ticket as underage drinking. The vote is largely symbolic, however.
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Unlucky in Love
A lengthy article from Stanford takes an in-depth look at the difficulties of dating as a graduate student at the University.
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Campus Surveillance
Miami University’s administration is examining its policies regarding campus surveillance. Also, lawyers and school administrators are debating the use of Facebook as a law enforcement tool, according to an article from American University.
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Planting the Right Seeds
Although it may not be something you consider every day, plants are showing their influence in determining university funding.
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Sorority Controversy
A New York Times article recently brought to national attention a controversy at DePauw University, where the national leadership of Delta Zeta sorority asked 23 of the chapter’s 35 women to leave the sorority house and accept alumnae status. As coverage from Texas Christian University shows, the DZ nationals may have lost more members than they anticipated.
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More on Men’s Practice Teams
Syracuse University’s Daily Orange is the second paper we’ve seen cover the latest battlefield in campus gender equality issues: the basketball court.
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The Student's Bill of Rights
Students at American University are drafting a student's Bill of Rights in an effort to fill a void in their campus's handbook: while the handbook explains what students can't do, nothing explains what they can do.
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How Far Is Too Far?
There’s controversy over new low-flow showerheads at American University, with many students upset that they weren’t consulted in the green buildings measure.
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RIAA Cracks Down on Illegal File Sharing
The RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) has been sending out complaints to various universities this year in an effort to prevent illegal file sharing between college students on campus networks.
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Smokin' & Drinkin'
Students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have banded together to fight a University proposal to limit the consumption of alcohol by student organizations. Students and faculty members at the University of New Mexico will be able to decide whether to ban smoking on campus.
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Muslims Will Not Get Their Own Space
Athletic officials will not establish a designated prayer space for Muslim students at Northwestern’s stadiums and fields, according to the Associate Athletic Director of External Affairs.
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Student Activity Fees: Some Fundamentals
Confused about student activity fees? Fee structure can vary from school to school, but Goucher’s paper the Quindecim has taken a moment to explain the fee system—and what it funds—to its readership.
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Identifying Marks
Students applying for housing at Harvard University will now be able to choose from three categories on their applications: male, female, or transgender. The decision was made in an effort to provide more gender-neutral housing at the University.
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Professors Ban Laptops from Class
Dartmouth professors are discussing the use of laptops in class. Many see them as a distraction (Dartmouth’s campus is 100% wireless, allowing students to check their email or favorite websites during class).
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Wikipedia Banned in History Papers
Frustrated with students citing from the public encyclopedia, Middlebury College’s history department has banned the use of Wikipedia as a source for student papers.
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Reviewing Judicial Review
This article from Brandeis explores the University Board on Student Conduct (UBSC), the campus judicial board.
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New Report Says Faculty Bias An Unproven Claim
The new report concludes that, while it is true that faculty are more often Democrats than Republicans, none of eight analyzed studies was able to show how professors’ political beliefs affected their professional responsibilities.
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HIV-Positive Prostitute Has Campus on Edge
NJIT’s paper The Vector reports that a prostitute who was arrested for soliciting Cheyney University students for sex has indicated to police that she is HIV-positive. Students on the Pennsylvania campus report that tensions have been running high since fliers were distributed with the news.
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Amnesty for Alcohol-Related Medical Help
The Undergraduate Student Government of Case passed a resolution that—if adopted by the Case administration—would change the way the school deals with students who seek alcohol-related medical help (regardless of whether it’s for themselves or others).
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More Support for Mixed-Gender Housing
Yet another student body is showing interest in mixed-gender housing. The latest voice in favor of the option is from the Student Union of Washington University in St. Louis.
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Student Activists Protest for Diversity
Student activists at Penn State University staged a sit-in, demanding to speak with the University President in response to a settlement between Penn State officials and former women's basketball player Jen Harris.
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Students Rally On Higher Ed Issues
Students at the University of Massachusetts rallied last week to exhibit their concern with the University's current administration and policies.
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Students Uncertain about Future
A group of students at Livingston College of Rutgers have stenciled a large question mark onto a former racquetball wall in the middle of their campus.
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Fall Into the (Gender) Gap
While there has undeniably been a great deal of progress in women’s educational equality, women are still underrepresented in certain academic fields.
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No Silent Minority
At Boston University and Brown, new student groups are addressing Asian issues in their respective campus communities.
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Student Bill of Rights
Students at the upcoming meeting of Lake Forest College’s General Assembly will consider a student Bill of Rights. The bill covers topics from free speech and unreasonable search to indoctrination.
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Troubled Election Entrance for Divinity Students
Despite the General Election Commissioner’s assurances that signs were posted well in advance, Howard University’s divinity students seem to have been woefully under informed about the candidate application deadline.
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Student Groups Allowed to Discriminate
Due to a change in University anti-discrimination policy, student religious groups at the University of Georgia will be able to discriminate based on faith.
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Sugar Board
Boston University is considering a change that would put one student group, the Allocations Board, in charge of distributing funds to all other student groups.
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ASL Class Offered at University of Washington
Due to the work of several student groups, the University of Washington will offer an American Sign Language class for students seeking to fulfill their foreign language requirement
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NCAA May Ban Use of Men's Practice Teams
According to a position statement released in December, the NCAA Committee on Women's Athletics believes that the use of men's practice "violates the spirit of gender equity and Title IX."
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My Gender-Blind Roomie
tudents at Willamette University are promoting gender-blind housing for their school, largely because of the comfort gender-blind housing can offer gay and lesbian students.
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A Slippery Slope for Baptists?
The Student Senate is considering a bill that would allow other non-Baptist, Christian-oriented groups to be chartered (a policy that was disallowed in 2000).
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Students Get More Say in Building Projects
UC San Diego students may be getting more control of a new athletic facility funded through student activity fees—heralding a potential shift in the administration of such projects.
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Will You Stay the Night?
At Texas A&M, students who reside in on-campus dorms will vote on whether to extend visitation from 9 a.m–2 a.m to 24-hours.
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More on Title IX
The Title IX controversy continues this week with an article from Ohio University, where significant cuts have just been made to the University Athletic Department (including eliminating lacrosse, men’s swimming and diving, and men’s indoor and outdoor track and field).
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It’s SGA Week at FSU!
Shh…Okay, you don’t have to admit this to anyone else, but do you really know as much about the workings of your student government as an informed citizen of a democracy should?
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Trouble with Title IX?
Liz Adams, a student at Kansas State University, says that she was denied the benefits of playing varsity women’s soccer because of the constraints of Title IX legislation.
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It’s Campaign Season!
That’s right folks, the season for student elections is upon us, and at Miami University things are looking up: all their positions are contested, something that was not the case in last year’s elections.
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Ethnic Invisibility?
In the latest from Columbia, the Asian American Alliance and Students Promoting Empowerment and Knowledge are leading the charge in demanding more resources for Asian American studies within the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race (CSER).
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No Confidence
The University of Iowa’s student body (along with its faculty and staff) passed a vote of “No Confidence” in the leadership of their Board of Regents.
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Sit-In for Study Time
It may seem like a small request, but students at the University of Texas have staged a second consecutive sit-in for more 24-hour access to computer and study areas before finals.
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Checks and Balances?
Here’s an interesting case from Florida State University. Apparently, the student government of FSU funds an Institute of Conservative Studies with $20,000 a year of office space, as well as a director and assistant director.
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The Michigan Test
Students everywhere should keep at least one eye on Michigan schools in the coming months, due to the passage of the extremely controversial Prop 2.
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The Humanitarian Response
The Bowdoin Student Government (which shares an acronym with everyone’s favorite geek-out, Battle Star Galactica) has decided unanimously to encourage the formation a new Community Response Committee.
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Sunlight for SUNY
Although it’s not the first time a student government officer has misused funds (and, sadly, we’ll bet cash money that it won’t be the last), the latest scandal from SUNY Buffalo has drawn a well-considered article from The Spectrum, UB’s student newspaper.
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A Black and White Case?
At best, Weber State University’s administrative system has not done right by Victoria Sethunya; at worst, Weber State is guilty of extreme discrimination.
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Acquisitions and Mergers
There’s grumbling from U Penn’s graduate masses this week, after a recent announcement that their two governing bodies—the Graduate and Professional Student Assembly (GPSA) and Graduate Student Associations Council (GSAC)—intend to merge.
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Face(book) the Music
Spiderman (or was it Superman?) had a wise older father figure who said (in a delicately drawn cartoon talk-bubble), “With great power comes great responsibility.”
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Cost/Benefit Analysis
Two weeks ago, 24 clubs applied for recognition from the Activities Board at Columbia (ABC), a part of Columbia’s student government. Twenty of the groups have been denied, and concerns about the transparency of the process are surfacing.
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It’s a Shame About Fraud…
We’re not sure which to commend more: the student government of the University of Alabama proposing election reforms, or the student newspaper, The Crimson White, surveying student feelings about the proposed reforms.
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Thanks for the Memory
Crash course: Darfur is a region of Sudan (that’s in Africa) where genocide is currently taking place. Divestment, or pulling money from companies profiting in the situation, is a proven method of forcing change. U Chicago’s chapter of STAND (Students Taking Action Now: Darfur) met with their administration about the African crisis and learned administrators were feeling cautious about divestment because of guidelines contained in the Kalven Report, a University document designed (in 1967) to protect academic freedom & neutrality.
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Student Senate Makes Something Easier!
The Student Senate of U Mass Boston has enacted a revolutionary policy change: they’ve actually made it easier for clubs and organizations to request event funds.
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Open Admissions, 101
We couldn’t resist sneaking another editorial into our compilation of student news—in this case, because Leon Abbo’s editorial on Open Admissions is so clear about why we should be wary of the demise of Open Admissions.
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Conduct Unbecoming
We know people have strong feelings about things like homosexuality and blood drives. But we also know that more gets done when people who disagree are at least civil to one another—especially when the people in question are elected representatives.
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Solid Gold Elections
If your school is like most, participation in student elections tends to rival participation in, oh, I don’t know, the elections of a small military dictatorship.
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All I want for Christmas Is a Big-Screen TV
SUNY Binghamton’s Student Association recently used its office fund—which is funded through the student activity fee—to buy a big, flat-panel plasma screen TV for the reception area of their office.
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Students Weigh in on Next President
While students often get thrown a bone when their school chooses a new President, we can’t think of any school where student input is more crucial than at American University.
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What’s in a Name?
The Dartmouth exposes a conflict within sexual assault counseling that may also affect your campus.
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Colorado College’s Discrimination Case
What happens when two people are involved in a fight, both cases are heard before the Student Conduct Committee, the same disciplinary course of action is recommended by the committee, and the College decides to disregard the Committee’s decision in order to punish one of the students much more harshly than the other? If you guessed controversy, you’d be right.
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The Chief Point of Controversy
Students at Middlebury College are protesting their administration’s acceptance of a newly endowed professorship with a string attached—namely the name of the late Chief Justice William Rehnquist.
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Brother's Keepers?
Students at Loyola University are embroiled in a debate over the role of their United Student Government.
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