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college stories: 153 news summaries

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 NH Frat Brands  
 Pledges With Bayonet  

Police try to be 'fair'
on executors of
long-held tradition

Apr 23, 09 11:51 AM CDT
(Newser) - Two men face misdemeanor hazing charges for branding fraternity pledges at a New Hampshire college with a World War II bayonet, the Concord Monitor reports. Authorities began investigating the hazing after four students sought burn treatment at New England College's infirmary. Six of the seven pledges involved had 7-inch burn... More »

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fraternity • New Hampshire • college • hazing • New England College • Henniker, NH

Bankers Leave Street in Rear View; Head for Academia 

Execs take teaching jobs amid crisis

Apr 21, 09 1:19 PM CDT
(Newser) - With the financial tornado buffeting Wall Street, some of its leading figures are ditching their careers for work in academia, Time reports. Merrill Lynch’s former president is teaching at Yale; Citigroup’s former merger boss headed to Berkeley; a onetime Goldman Sachs exec is now at Harvard. “It’... More »

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Wall Street • Goldman Sachs • Merrill Lynch • UC Berkeley • college • university • academia • Harvard • Princeton • Yale • bankers • banks • financial crisis

(Newser) - The recession has led to some antipathy toward moneyed Americans, but the haves are not casting a blind eye to the have-nots' troubles, ABC News reports. Colleges across the country are seeing millions in anonymous donations designed to save endowments, and at least one hospital has spared hundreds of jobs... More »

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philanthropy • college • scholarship • recession • kindness • economic downturn • hard times


 Playboy Names 
 Miami Top 
 Party School 

Runners-up: Texas, San Diego State, Florida

Apr 17, 09 11:41 AM CDT
(Newser) - Promising to make the ranking an annual tradition, Playboy today named its top 10 US party schools, using an algorithm weighing hot temperatures, guy-girl ratio, empty rooms available for sex, and even GPA. “Think of this as a BCS rating, but unlike the BCS we welcome your input,”... More »

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University of Florida • college • university • University of Arizona • University of Texas Austin • University of Miami • parties • Playboy • San Diego State University • party schools

(Newser) - Strunk and White’s classic writing guide, The Elements of Style, has some “harmless” things to say about style, Geoffrey Pullum writes in the Chronicle of Higher Education, but its assault on grammar is unforgivable. The “toxic mix of purism, atavism, and personal eccentricity is not underpinned by... More »

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writing • college • grammar • syntax • Strunk and White • The Elements of Style • guide

 Facebook Users 
 Get Lower Grades 

Then again, non-users study 11-15 hours a week

Apr 14, 09 7:00 AM CDT
(Newser) - College students who use Facebook are less likely to be crowing about their grades in status updates, according to a new study that found, perhaps unsurprisingly, that non-Facebooking students get significantly higher grades. The Facebook users all said in a survey that the site didn’t interfere with their study... More »

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social networking • study • higher education • Facebook • college • grades

(Newser) - Asher Roth’s image isn’t classic hip-hop: He’s a white kid who wears sweatshirts and calls himself a “dork.” But that image, along with the breakout hit “I Love College,” has earned him a top-10 spot on iTunes and millions of MySpace streams, the... More »

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music • MySpace • iTunes • college • hip-hop • rapper • Asher Roth

(Newser) - University of Maryland students plan to take in some porn tonight after a heated battle with school officials and state lawmakers, the Baltimore Sun reports. The school slated a screening of Pirates II: Stagnetti’s Revenge—which recently showed at a University of California campus—last week, until... More »

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University of Maryland • pornography • ACLU • college • Baltimore • professor • state legislature • porn star

UC San Diego
to Rejects: You're In!

Email screw-up raises false hopes for 28K denied applicants

Apr 1, 09 7:11 AM CDT
(Newser) - Some 28,000 applicants were rejected from the University of California, San Diego weeks ago—and all of them received emails from the school on Monday applauding their acceptance, the Los Angeles Times reports. A few hours later, the admissions office sent out a follow-up email apologizing for the mistake,... More »

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college admissions • college • admissions officers • University of California San Diego • e-mails

(Newser) - Private colleges across the nation are boosting the number of students they're accepting and the length of their waiting lists in case applicants can't write the tuition check when the time comes, reports the Washington Post. Applications are at a record high 3 million, but universities fear students planning on... More »

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college admissions • UC Berkeley • college • UCLA • Johns Hopkins University • economy • college applications • fiscal crisis

 Rich Kids Get 
 Leg Up at Cash- 
 Strapped Schools 

Admissions staff skirts need-blind rules

Mar 31, 09 7:19 AM CDT
(Newser) - Endowments are shrinking, and kids are needing more aid—so many colleges are reluctantly giving an admissions boost to students who can pay in full, the New York Times reports. Schools are finding ways to let in more wealthy students without sacrificing "need-blind" labels: by admitting more foreign students,... More »

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college admissions • college • college tuition • financial aid

 Sorry, Recession Won't 
 Get You Into Harvard 

Top schools see no application shortage despite economy

Mar 30, 09 8:01 AM CDT
(Newser) - Sure, a lot of people are cash-strapped, but don’t get your hopes up that the recession will boost your shot at an Ivy League school. Harvard got a record number of applications this year—29,112, a 6% jump from last year. And pricey universities like Yale, Dartmouth, Brown,... More »

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education • Columbia University • Yale University • Ivy League • college admissions • Stanford University • college • Harvard • Dartmouth College • colleges and universities • Middlebury College • Common Application

(AP) - Seniors at the University of California, Merced, couldn't rely on a wealthy and established network of alumni to reel in a famous commencement speaker. The UC system's newest campus has yet to graduate a full senior class and only has a handful of alumni. But that didn't keep this year's... More »

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California • Michelle Obama • college • University of California • commencement speech • Merced • founding class

College Towns See Lower Unemployment

Many boast unemployment rates far below national average

Mar 24, 09 12:56 PM CDT
(Newser) - If you’re stymied by the tough job market, set your sights near a university: three of the six metropolitan areas with unemployment under 4% are college towns, and other academic havens boast unemployment numbers far below the 8.5% national rate. “We’re hurting for people,” an... More »

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employment • college • university • West Virginia University • job

opinion

 The Twilight of Students' 
 Radical Reading 

What happened to Sylvia Plath and Allen Ginsberg?

Mar 8, 09 4:03 PM CDT
(Newser) - A few decades ago, college kids turned to radicals to satisfy their literary thirst, but on today’s campuses, “you're more likely to hear a werewolf howl than Allen Ginsberg,” writes Ron Charles in the Washington Post. Other than Barack Obama’s tomes, the bestselling books among college... More »

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literature • college • radical • student • student activism • campus • Twilight

Die-Hard Gator Alums May Find Final Resting Place at UF

Dedicated Gators want to spend eternity on campus

Mar 5, 09 12:15 PM CST
(Newser) - University of Florida alums who want their final resting place to be somewhere on the campus of their alma mater will likely get their wish, the Gainesville Sun reports. A bill that cleared a Florida Senate committee today would allow any of Florida’s state universities to build a columbarium—... More »

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Florida • Florida Gators • cremation • University of Florida • college • alumni • ashes

Bargain-Hunting Students Swarm State Universities

Officials walk line between shoring up budgets, maintaining reputations

Mar 2, 09 10:44 AM CST
(Newser) - The unraveling economy is spurring a boom in applications to public universities as students pursue higher education at lower prices, the New York Times reports. But while increased enrollment may help offset the budget cuts that many public institutions expect as states trim budgets, it can also diminish the student... More »

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college admissions • higher education • college • public schools • college costs • financial crisis • SUNY

tech review

User-Generated College Review Site Gets It Right

Unigo allows students to post multimedia reviews of universities

Feb 19, 09 11:45 AM CST
(Newser) - A new online college guide “built for the age of YouTube and Facebook” employs user-generated content to give applicants a student's-eye-view of hundreds of schools, and Walter S. Mossberg of the Wall Street Journal likes what he sees. Unigo.com is free and ad-supported; professional editors help present reviews,... More »

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Web 2.0 • college admissions • college rankings • Walt Mossberg • college • college applications • Unigo.com

OPINION

To Save Itself, Press Should Become a Religion

Papers would enjoy the benefits of tithing and tax-exemption: Bates

Feb 11, 09 2:44 PM CST
(Newser) - As profits continue to fall, some have suggested turning newspapers into non-profit, endowed institutions similar to colleges. A better way to go non-profit would be for the press to declare itself a religion, writes Stephen Bates for Slate. The tax benefits would be substantial, as would legal protections for reporters-turned-priests,... More »

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newspaper • religion • profits • journalism • college • nonprofit • newspaper industry • Bill Maher Grid

Nonprofits Look to Change Rules on Endowments

Meltdown forces tough choice: present survival or future value?

Feb 11, 09 7:21 AM CST
(Newser) - Nonprofits reeling from the market meltdown's impact on their investments are pushing to be allowed to tap endowment funds, many of which are off-limits because they've lost value, reports the Wall Street Journal. At issue is the balance between surviving the current crisis and spending funds that can never... More »

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philanthropy • higher education • museum • college • university • charity • nonprofit • Brandeis • endowment • financial crisis

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