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The Forum for Energy Economics and Development, a student organization at UCLA focused on renewable energy, recently released its first academic journal on solar energy. The journal, written entirely by students and for students, includes articles and graphics on the scientific, social, economic, and political aspects of solar energy. |
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Campus Newspaper Staff Take Stands on Campus Safety Following the recent sexual assault of a student, the staff of Trinity College’s newspaper, The Tripod, released a statement calling for the university administration to step up its safety policies and provide students with better, more comprehensive safety on campus. |
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Professors on Facebook: Friends or Foes? Facebook, once a private forum for college students, is becoming an increasingly public space and professors are joining the community. |
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Student Starts Magazine for African American Men What started as a class project for Pepperdine advertising major Quincy Wimbish has now become a full-blown business: “Icon,” a magazine for African American men. |
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JuicyCampus.com Faces Investigations Across Country Officials from New Jersey, Connecticut and most recently California have all launched consumer fraud investigations into JuicyCampus.com, an anonymous gossip website for college students. |
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According to school officials, Ohio State’s student newspaper, The Lantern, is projected to lose more than $150,000 this year. To prevent further losses, the school administration has decided to suspend summer printing, a decision The Lantern’s student business manager and faculty advisor disagree with. |
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Political Blogs: The Future of Politics? The University of Illinois’ newspaper The Daily Illini, explores the role of political blogs in the election. Will this new, fast-paced media outlet change the way America gets its news? |
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On March 6th Howard University administrators suspended publication of the university's student newspaper, The Hilltop, due to more than $48,000 in outstanding printing costs. |
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On April 1st thousands of Facebook users around the world will protest the site’s use of applications. |
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As part of the entertainment industry’s ongoing effort to enforce copyright infringement laws on college campuses, the Recording Industry Association of America sent out their 13th round of pre-litigation settlement letters to college students accused of illegal file-sharing. |
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Two USC juniors have turned what began as a class project into a national business: Portcard.net, a service that verifies online identities. |
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As students grapple with the growing number of shooting on campuses nationwide, journalists reach out to their peers in the hopes of providing support and making sense of the tragedies. |
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Politics and Student Journalism Check out this editorial about the trials and tribulations of being a student journalist during an election – and this one in particular! A student at Ohio University, and a journalist, this writer explores the experience of staying objective in one of the country’s biggest swing states. |
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Nine nursing students enrolled in U Penn’s Infant and Maternal Care in the Americas course will soon be traveling to Honduras to provide aid and improve health care in impoverished communities. |
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George Washington senior Steve Miller is the founder of CollegiateConsulting.org, a political consulting group to help students run their campaigns for student government elections. |
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R. Kelly Inspires Discussion for Black History Month As part of ongoing Black History Month events on campus, UC Davis’s Cross Cultural Center, sponsored by the Associated Student Union, will be showing R. Kelly’s infamous hip-hopera “Trapped in the Closet” and hosting a subsequent discussion in an effort to raise awareness of gender and sexuality stereotypes in the black community. |
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In 2007 four Yale and one Columbia student founded GXC, a team-based social gaming network that hosts free conquest games. |
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Facebook Takes Stalking to a New Level Maybe you saw it on the News Feed: personal information posted on Facebook may be impossible to fully delete. |
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Facebook Challeges Students to Give Friday marked the final stretch of Facebook’s "Causes Giving Challenge” to raise funds and awareness for various nonprofit startup groups. |
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The use of technology in the 2008 Presidential Race is ever-increasing, particularly in forums such as Facebook and MySpace, as candidates attempt to secure the growing youth vote. |
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Two Florida A&M University students have started Donetrading.com, a bartering web site where visitors can freely exchange goods and services they might not otherwise be able to afford. |
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Former USC student James Miao has started a new music sharing website, thesixtyone.com. |
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The University of Pittburg is the newest member of JuicyCampus.com, a gossip website geared toward college students. |
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MPAA Admits Scapegoating Students The Motion Picture Association of America admitted last Wednesday that it overestimated the financial impact of illegal file sharing among college students, wrongfully blaming students for 44 percent of its losses. |
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Universities nationwide are now taking up virtual residence in Second Life, an Internet-based virtual world. |
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Educational Video Alerts Students to Dangers of File Sharing In response to continuing attacks on students from the Recording Industry Association of America, the University of Wisconsin’s Division of Information Technology has produced an educational video meant to inform students and dispel any misconceptions about file sharing in order to help students protect themselves. |
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New Educational Service from iTunes Aimed at College Students Students are taking advantage of Apple’s new educational service, iTunes U. |
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Grinnell student paper gets scoop on major story Hillary Clinton was accused of planting a question in an Iowa audience recently, a story which became a major media favorite and fodder for her opponents. The Scarlett and Black, Grinnell’s student newspaper, broke the story on a Friday afternoon and within hours it was on national news. |
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Student journalists continue work of slain journalist Students are carrying on the work of Chauncey Baily, a reporter for the Oakland Post who was killed this summer while investigating the Your Black Muslim Bakery. |
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Editorial cartoon sparks protest Students reacted quickly and negatively to an editorial cartoon at the University of Kentucky that compared the Greek system to a slave auction. |
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Journalism students at UT Austin have launched a satirical campus paper, entitled “The Yellow Journalist” and conservative students at Colorado State University, upset over the “F--- Bush” Collegian Editorial, have launched “The Ram Republic.” |
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Collegian editor keeps his job Rocky Mountain Collegian editor, of “F--- Bush” fame, was reprimanded but not fired from the managing board of the student newspaper. |
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Student journalist stirs controversy in Uganda An American exchange student from Stanford has become the target of large protests and conspiracy theories after writing an article on the gay rights movement in Uganda |
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An article from the University of Oregon details the “neutral observer” program, which trains volunteers to attend potentially controversial events and report what they observe there. |
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Students overusing the Internet at Ohio University are in danger of losing their access. The accounts of students who exceed a certain data transfer amount will be shut down starting April 27, two months after the recording industry began cracking down on college music sharers. |
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In this editorial, the editor-in-chief of the Campus Times, the student newspaper at the University of Rochester, discusses how he chooses what gets covered in the newspaper as well as how newspapers should handle tragic events such as suicides. |
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Promoting Protest the Unauthorized Way Former White House Chief of Staff Andy Card came to the University of Massachusetts to give a lecture, which prompted students to organize protests that were promoted by email. Problems arose, however, when a student sent an email rallying others to the English department listserve. |
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Purdue University officials are stepping into the 21st century by utilizing Facebook to communicate with students. |
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Student-Run Political Website to Launch A Yale student and a high school student have teamed up to create TheScoop08.com, a student blog with a staff of high school and college students who are interested in politics. |
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The next phase of the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) saga has begun, as the deadline for students to accept RIAA settlements for illegal music downloads has passed. |
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Political Forum Formed by Students Hoping to create a forum to ignite political discussion, Brown University students have formed the Political Union. |
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The staff of the National Student News Service send their deepest condolences to the families and friends of the victims of the shootings at Virginia Tech. For the latest from Virginia Tech’s student paper, check http://collegemedia.com/. |
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Students Give Up Facebook For Lent Christian students at Texas Christian University went technological with Lent this year, giving up Facebook instead of something more traditional. |
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Student Makes Film to Help Free Man A journalism student at Northwestern University made a documentary about a man who claims to have been wrongfully convicted of a double murder at the age of 14. The man is currently trying to prove his innocence with DNA testing. The film screened for the first time last week. |
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Students Create New Publications Boston College students have introduced a new literary journal that is a cross between a creative literary magazine and a technical research journal. Students at the University of Kentucky are bringing back the long-defunct student handbook. |
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Study Abroad Students Launch Zine A group of students from New York University studying abroad in Prague launched a webzine that documents many of their experiences as international students. |
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The School of Information at the University of Michigan has created a master's program in social computing. The Student Assembly at Dartmouth University is working to create an official “Dartmouth Wiki.” |
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A Duke University Chronicle article discusses the ban against using Wikipedia as a resource for research at a few schools, and the wider controversy surrounding the website's use in academia. An article from North Carolina State University examines Conservapedia. |
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The RIAA has sent out a second batch of pre-litigation settlement letters to students at more than 23 colleges accusing recipients of copyright infringement due to illegally downloaded music. |
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A University of Pittsburgh Pitt News article examines the relationship students have with the technology they use every day. |
