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Voluntary Budget Cuts at KU?
Bucking the trend, funding for the student newspaper the University Daily Kansan will not be cut because of a budget crunch.
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Bill Seeks to Protect College Reporters
Under a new bill before the Maryland state legislature, student journalists would gain the right to protect their confidential sources’ names and information, a right currently reserved only for "employed" journalists.
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Northwestern Student Journalists Fight Subpoenas
Students with Northwestern University’s Medill Innocence Project are battling with the Cook County state’s attorney office over a subpoena for off-the-record interviews in their investigation of the conviction of Anthony Kinney.
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Oregon Student Newspaper Strikes, Wins
The staff of the University of Oregon Daily Emerald, an independent student newspaper, went on strike early this month in response to what they say as an act of possible prior restraint on their content.
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Budget Cuts Change Production of Student Newspaper
Lincoln University, a Historically Black College and University, is currently dealing with overcrowded classrooms after over 70 courses were abruptly canceled at the beginning of the semester. One of those classes was the practicum for the writers of the student newspaper, the Lincolnian.
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Hazing and Coverage of Hazing Still Issue for College Campuses
When California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo student Carson Starkey was found dead the morning after a Sigma Alpha Epsilon party with high levels of alcohol in his blood, the student paper The Mustang Daily issued a series of reports in the months following the event.
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Student Radio Station Budget Slashed
A new agreement between the Georgia Tech Athletic Association and International Sports Properties will cut student radio station WREK's revenue in half and profit the university nearly $50 million.
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Students Utilize Facebook in New Ways
Everyone knows Facebook is an efficient tool for procrastination, but some students and universities are harnessing the social networking site for academic and public relations purposes.
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Toward Free and Fair Internet
Free and unfettered access to the internet is becoming a centerpiece of the new administration’s agenda for both the legislative and executive branches.
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Campus Newspapers Bring Student Perspective to Conflict
The Israel/Gaza conflict has fully saturated the international media: from print to T.V. and the internet, coverage is everywhere. Amidst this media blitz, campus newspapers are working to contribute meaningful material that remains relevant to their student audience.
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Media conflicted over conflict: Reporting on Israel and Gaza
The conflict in Gaza is being fought not only with bombs and bullets but also through the control and spin of information. What is (according to TIME) the most reported-on conflict in human history is also proving to be the most difficult to fact check. All sides of the issue have not only launched full fledged media campaigns, but are also fighting fiercely to control the basic information disseminated to the press.
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Recording Industry Makes a Deal
The Recording Industry Association of America is looking into alternatives to massive lawsuits against music piracy – lawsuits frequently targeting students.
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Colleges prepare students for possible shooting
Students at Palm Beach Community College and Palm Beach Atlantic University are being asked to take a more proactive approach to their safety in the light of an emergency situation. PBCC has posted training videos on its website called “Shots Fired On Campus”, while PBAU will begin showing similar videos to students in January.
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Beware the FBook
Brad Ward, the electronic communication guru at Butler University recently uncovered a viral marketing scheme where companies with college-geared products were creating Facebook class groups for university classes under aliases.
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15 Minutes Was All He Needed
Bard College’s Travis Wentworth of the Bard Free Press interviewed New York Congresswoman Kirsten Gillibrand (D) on issues ranging from the Democratic hold on the hill to her support for the second amendment.
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Digital media strategist peddles file sharing "tax"
Last week, Warner Music Group strategist Jim Griffin began traveling the country proposing an alternative to illegal file sharing. Griffin is pitching a "'voluntary blanket licensing' for online access to music" at major educational powerhouses, such as MIT, Columbia, and UC Berkley.
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Tribune In Trouble
In further evidence of the decline and uncertain future of the daily newspaper, media giant Tribune Co. — parent company to the Chicago Tribune and LA Times— filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy on Monday.
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Rutgers Independent Student Newspaper “Optional”
In a highly contentious session of the University Senate at Rutgers University in NJ, the legislative body passed a bill making it easier for students to opt out of funding the student newspaper.
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Journal for the Disenfranchised
University of South Dakota senior, Cody Raterman created The Concrete Narcissist to give a voice to underrepresented viewpoints on campus.
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Librarians a Text Away
Harvard College librarians have gone digital. A new program called "Ask Us Live!" allows students to message college librarians through Yahoo, Google, AIM, and MSN instant messengers and get questions answered almost immediately.
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Separate But Equal?
The West Virginia University College Republicans are fed up with the political coverage in their current campus paper, The Daily Athenaeum, so they are starting a new campus publication: The Mountaineer Jeffersonian.
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Does iPod = iLearn?
A number of universities and colleges are letting their students use iPods, iPhones and iTouch as learning tools and/or ways of communication between professors and students.
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BYU Cuts Off YouTube
In 2006 Brigham Young University banned the use of YouTube on its campus network in an effort to more strictly enforce its Honor Code—“to enrich the BYU environment by making it inspiring, comforting, productive and safe”.
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Campus Newspaper 1, Administration 0
The Editor-in-Chief, Will Hanlon of The Flyer News at the University of Dayton, found that the student paper was less than welcome on campus due to concerns from some faculty and staff members that the paper’s content had a negative affect on prospective students. Will was not pleased—nor does The Flyer intend to change its content and distribution.
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Trouble in Paradise
The journalism school at the University of Missouri-Columbia has lost over $2 million in the last two years because of its publication of The Columbia Missourian, a daily newspaper run by the school. As a result, university officials have demanded that the publication formulate a new business model.
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Tweet Ya Later
Twitter, the newest and quickest of the social networking sites, has proven the efficacy of online technologies in spreading information.
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Not Studying History; Making History
A new team is on the trail of the Islamist killers of journalist Daniel Pearl. Called the Pearl Project, the roughly two dozen investigators say they've determined the identities of 15 of the estimated 19 suspects still at large. The enterprising detectives are Georgetown University students taking a class dedicated to tracking down Pearl's murderers from across the globe.
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Syracuse Paper Cutbacks
The independent Daily Orange has announced that it will no longer publish a print edition on Friday because of “financial setbacks” – including low circulation on Fridays and printing and distribution costs. Independent campus newspapers across the country have found it difficult to generate revenue, a reality that is plaguing the world of print journalism as a whole.
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Amendments Are Made to Be Broken
The Republican National Convention, held last week in St. Paul, Minnesota, drew national attention not only because it launched the official nomination of John McCain as the Republican candidate for president, but also because of protests outside the convention that led to hundreds of arrests.
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Daily Cal Cutbacks
Rising costs and declining ad revenue have been plaguing newspapers all over the country, and have now hit campus. The 137-year-old independent student newspaper at the University of California, Berkeley, The Daily Californian, has announced plans to cut back its publication.
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Florida Students and the Princeton Review
The Princeton Review, a test-preparatory and academic evaluation organization, accidentally published the personal data and test scores of over one hundred thousand Florida and Virginia students on its web site.
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Montclair State Newspaper Independence Finalized
After over six months of controversy, Montclair State University President Susan A. Cole has formally declared that the university’s student newspaper, The Montclarion, will soon exist independent of its governing body, the Montclair State Student Government Association.
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UCLA Student Wins Journalism Award
This week Robert Faturechi, a former student reporter for UCLA’s student newspaper the Daily Bruin (now a UCLA graduate and reporter for the Seattle Times) was awarded the Thomas L. Phillips Collegiate Award this week from the Institute on Political Journalism (IPJ) for his piece on the influences of donations on college admission decisions.
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Blame it on Biofuels?
The University of Iowa’s student paper, the Daily Iowan, recently explored what has become an international debate: the effect of biofuels on food prices worldwide.
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“The Inkwell” Dries Up, Student Editors Sue
Student editors at Armstrong Atlantic State University’s student newspaper, The Inkwell, filed suit against the university and its Student Government Association claiming that the school stifled their right to free speech when the paper’s budget was slashed in March and the paper received $14,760 less than previous years.
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U. Iowa Flooded
Severe flooding in Iowa has caused the evacuation of thousands of residents and the closures of nearly everything in Iowa City, including the University of Iowa.
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Colorado State University Student Media Declares Independence
Student Media, the umbrella organization home to Colorado State University’s campus media – which includes the student newspaper The Rocky Mountain Collegian, as well as the campus television station, radio station, and magazine – announced last week that it will soon become a non-profit organization independent of the university.
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Student Newspapers Settle Subpoenas
Last week campus newspapers at two California schools – Saddleback College and UC Santa Barbara – fended off subpoenas seeking unpublished material for evidence in criminal cases.
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Student Energy Journal
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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Student Paper Budget Cuts
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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Howard Newspaper Stops
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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Facebook Protest
On April 1st thousands of Facebook users around the world will protest the site’s use of applications.
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RIAA vs. Students – Round 13
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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Networking Site Safety
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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Staff Editorials on NIU
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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Blogging Nurses
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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CollegiateConsulting.org
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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Barter Business Online
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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Electronic Election
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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Virtual Learning
Universities nationwide are now taking up virtual residence in Second Life, an Internet-based virtual world.
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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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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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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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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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Alternative campus papers
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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Neutral Observer
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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Blame the Media
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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Cracking Down on File Sharing
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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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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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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More on the RIAA
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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Breaking News
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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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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Education Gets Technological
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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The Wiki World
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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Techy Students
A University of Pittsburgh Pitt News article examines the relationship students have with the technology they use every day.
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RIAA Just Won't Quit
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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First Amendment Rights for Students, Too
A bill currently pending in the Oregon State Legislature would protect the First Amendment rights of high school and college student journalists by disallowing administrative censorship for student publications.
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Freedom of Campus Press Faces Obstacles
A Crimson White article explores the University of Alabama's new media relations policy which requires reporters to “touch base” with University spokespeople about their stories before contacting administrative sources.
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Students Develop New Social Networking Site
Three students at Harvard University have created Vostu.com, a new social networking website that features a Spanish interface and a focus on the Latin American community across the country.
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The Race Issue that Wasn’t
The Smith College Sophian solicited articles on race for a special stand-alone issue to be called, aptly, The Race Issue. They didn’t receive enough submissions, however, and so ran the few articles they did receive within their March 8th issue.
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Plays and Politics
A variety of student groups at Columbia University are producing four plays this semester, in an effort to tie the arts of the past with the politics of today.
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RHA Protests Against School Paper
Members of the Residence Halls Association (RHA) at the University of Maryland gathered last week to protest a Diamondback editorial that ran last week.
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Facebook Among Friends
An article by Raquel Christie of the University of Maryland’s Diamondback explores the ways that Facebook can connect you—to deceased students. An article from the University of Nebraska explores the same topic.
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RIAA Fast & Furious
In a conciliatory move (after a fast and furious legal smackdown), the Recording Industry Association of America is offering settlements to students and faculty facing copyright infringement lawsuits in the coming months.
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Your Techno-Education
From YouTube to Facebook to podcasts, student articles this week focused on the intersection of technology and campus life.
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Know Your Neighbor
Northwestern, like many colleges, is a relatively homogeneous campus. But their paper has done a unique series profiling various minority subsets of their campus, from ROTC corps members to the black students who join traditionally white Greek organizations.
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Art as Activism
Michaelia Fosses reports on the recent proliferation of student groups using art to forward their vision of social change.
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Scarf or Political Statement?
Any of you who know the origin of low pants (and those of you who don’t know and wear your pants low anyway) should be interested in this article exploring the implications of students wearing the keffiyeh at the University of Maryland.
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Special Feature: Reaction Mixed in Argonaut Case
A few weeks ago, an article about an on-campus rape was cut out of several hundred copies of a student paper in California. Michaelia Fosses reports on the case and gages student reactions from the University of Illinois Chicago.
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YouTube Giving Student Groups an Outlet
YouTube.com is giving some Boston University students the platform to advertise personal and student group material, though uploading videos onto the website may hinder their chance of future publication, according to a film professor.
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Men's Role in The Vagina Monologues
A production of The Vagina Monologues at the University of Michigan Ann Arbor will include men as non-speaking extras, even though the author stipulated that no men appear on stage when she released the rights to the play.
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YouNews
It’s pretty common knowledge these days that lots of students are distrustful of many media sources. It may come as no surprise, then, that more and more students are turning to YouTube.com for their news (or, at least part of it).
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Free Speech vs. Free Tuition
Rutgers-Newark’s paper, The Observer, reports on an interesting intersection of student reporting and administrative oversight from the New Jersey Institute of Technology.
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Protecting the Mexican Student Press
Texas Christian University may use their sister-school relationship with Universidad de las Americas (UDLA) in Mexico to help protect the student journalists of UDLA’s paper La Catarina.
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Goodbye, Le Parkour!
What are your obligations, as a paper, if your article on an obscure and potentially dangerous sport gets an athlete banned from practicing in his home stadium, for a year?
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Overheard In Maine
What does Bowdoin have in common with Brown University, Cornell University, Stanford University, University of Chicago, Loyola College, McGill University, University of Calgary, and University of Western Ontario? If you guessed a website where people can post snippets of overheard conversations, you’d be right!
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Back Off that Bike
Students and administrators at UC Irvine have been engaged in an ongoing debate about bicycle riding on Ring Mall.
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The Nexus of it All
There have been some really, really big happenings on the media front at UC Santa Barbara.
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The Independent Tiger
In a very brave and thoroughly laudable decision, Clemson University’s student newspaper “The Tiger” has decided to end its reliance on student government funding.
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Washington State Hearts Student Press?
It has so far received very little fanfare, but a bill recently introduced in the Washington state legislature has the potential to make Washington the first state to give college and high school newspapers full press protection.
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Context Matters
This article from Louis and Clark’s Pioneer Log is interesting not only for its ostensible subject—which is a regional conference of SDS (Students for a Democratic Society).
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Behind the Music
Those of you who read our last installment might remember the controversy over the November 28th issue cover of Dartmouth College’s conservative student newspaper, The Dartmouth Review.
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Kicking the Stigma
You might think Katie Hnida had done plenty for student history and women’s rights by being the first woman to score in a Division I football game.
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Imagine She & She
It may be a sad commentary on the state of our nation, but all it takes is a little lesbian love (and we mean the emotion) to turn a chick flick into a political document of this time and place in history.
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It’s Cambodian Awareness Week!
Did you know that it’s Cambodian Awareness Week (well, before you read that title)? Thanks to the efforts of the Student International Business Council (SIBC) of Notre Dame, now you do!
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Ah, Technology…
In the recent midterm elections, gay marriage faced two major setbacks in Colorado: Referendum I—a statewide initiate to establish same-sex domestic partnerships—failed, while Amendment 43—an amendment to Colorado’s state constitution banning same-sex marriage—passed.
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Caucasian Achievement & Recognition
A million thanks to Boston University’s College Republicans and Daily Free Press for proving once and for all that student activism and campus media do, in fact, matter.
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You-Tube Nation
While we generally highlight the opining of our own editorial writers, we would like to draw your attention to an editorial that appeared this week in the Harvard Crimson, written by Bede Moore.
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Art as Activism
Michaelia Fosses reports on the recent proliferation of student groups using art to forward their vision of social change.
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Reaction Mixed in Argonaut Case
A few weeks ago, an article about an on-campus rape was cut out of several hundred copies of a student paper in California. Michaelia Fosses reports on the case and gages student reactions from the University of Illinois Chicago.
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