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student stories: 72 news summaries

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Portrait of the Candidate as a College Student

Teen correspondence shows new side of young Hillary Rodham

Jul 29, 07 7:43 AM CDT
(Newser) - The first shock is to remember that college students used to actually write letters. To friends from high school, even. One of Hillary Clinton's bookish buddies from Park Ridge, Ill., then a Princeton undergrad and now a professor at Scripps College, saved her dispatches from Wellesley and shares the revelatory... More »

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Hillary Clinton • college • letters • student • Election 2008

Rent-a-Yanks Push Goodwill Abroad

German schools book young US speakers to combat anti-Americanism

Jul 27, 07 10:03 AM CDT
(Newser) - American exchange students in Germany are so bombarded with broadsides against the US government and lifestyle that one university has started a program called "Rent an American." Yanks visit German schools to answer questions about the Bush administration, climate change, and the death penalty, all in an effort... More »

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Germany • university • Americans • Rent an American • student • exchange student

High Court Limits Use of Race in School Assignments

Choice plans found unconstitutional

Jun 28, 07 12:06 PM CDT
(Newser) - Taking race into consideration in school assignments is unconstitutional because it violates students' rights under the equal protection clause, the Supreme Court ruled today in a landmark decision that could cause upheaval in K-12 education. The decision, by an increasingly familiar 5-4 vote, invalidates diversity plans in Louisville and Seattle... More »

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John Roberts • race • equality • discrimination • Louisville • school • Seattle • student • US Supreme Court

Chinese Kids Tire of Communism

Mandatory Marxist indoctrination a tough sell to modern youth

Jun 26, 07 11:09 AM CDT
(Newser) - Chinese kids are bored stiff with the Communist philosophy still force-fed in their university system. Classes in Marxism have been mandatory since Mao, but cell-phone-weilding students entranced by China's burgeoning capitalist infrastructure are having trouble relating. "It's something like fiction," one student says of the readings in Das ... More »

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China • communism • Marxism • children • capitalism • youth • student

Court Limits Student Speech

High Court decides 'Bong Hits 4 Jesus' case in favor of buzz-kill principal

Jun 25, 07 10:41 AM CDT
(Newser) - Schools may limit student speech that advocates criminal activity, even off campus, the Supreme Court ruled today. The case centers on a banner reading "Bong Hits 4 Jesus" displayed across the street from a school; writing for the 5-4 majority, Chief Justice Roberts said the school principal's understanding of... More »

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John Roberts • free speech • First Amendment • Bong Hits 4 Jesus • student • US Supreme Court

Sallie Mae
Chief Quits

Equity firm pressured loan giant CEO to step down, ease buyout

May 23, 07 5:52 AM CDT
(Newser) - The CEO of student loan giant Sallie Mae resigned unexpectedly yesterday in the midst of a $25 billion buyout by a private equity firm. The Wall Street Journal reports that Thomas J. Fitzpatrick was pressured out to stave off Congressional criticism of the buyout by J.C. Flowers and Co,... More »

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private equity • Sallie Mae • student loans • merger • loans • acquisition • Thomas J. Fitzpatrick • J.C. Flowers and Co • student

African Colleges Fail
a Generation

Underfunded and overcrowded, promising universities begin to buckle

May 19, 07 9:49 PM CDT
(Newser) - Once a beacon of hope for the world's poorest continent, Africa's colleges are collapsing under the weight of too many students and too little cash, the Sunday Times reports. At Cheikh Anta Diop University in Dakar, students are packed into overcrowded dorms and classrooms, labs are dilapidated, and qualified teachers... More »

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education • Africa • school • college • Dakar • student

Ivy League Logjam
Trickles Down

Applications—and rejections—up at second-tier colleges

May 16, 07 2:12 PM CDT
(Newser) - Top-tier colleges are getting more applicants than ever, the Times reports, allowing a new class of schools to court—and reject—the overachievers increasingly turned away from the Ivy League. Universities like Bucknell, Colgate and Lehigh are tightening standards as students with top SATs and grades seek higher learning lower... More »

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Ivy League • college admissions • admission • university • student

German Students Do Full Monty  

Nude calendars raise cash for charities, protests

May 9, 07 5:44 PM CDT
(Newser) - German students are capitalizing on their assets—nude calendars, raising money for charities and better conditions on campus, are all the rage. While some of the calendars have a whimsical feel, professional photographers have gotten in on the action, too. But "they work primarily with sports students, who tend... More »

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Germany • calendars • nudity • photography • Deggendorf • student

Bush Officials Killed Proposal For Student Loan Reform

Education Department under Bush is cozy with the loan industry, critics say

May 1, 07 11:25 AM CDT
(Newser) - Bush officials killed a proposal to clamp down on sleazy practices in the student loan industry in 2001, the Washington Post reports. The proposals, drafted under Clinton and circulated to the Bush team, was aimed at curbing the kind of abuses now being investigated, in which loan companies pay universities... More »

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student loans • Department of Education • money • college • university • reform • student

Russia Locks Down Foreign Students

Fear violence by skinheads celebrating Hitler's birthday

Apr 20, 07 7:26 AM CDT
(Newser) - Moscow’s top medical school is urging 2,000 foreign students to stay indoors for the next three days, citing an annual surge in attacks by skinheads around Aprll 20—Hitler’s birthday. The lockdown of non-native students is a preventative effort in response to a rise in xenophobic violence... More »

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Russia • xenophobia • Moscow • violence • student

Students Brew Coffee Addiction

Docs abuzz over teens’ growing
use and abuse of stimulants

Apr 16, 07 8:15 AM CDT
(Newser) - Overworked kids are hopping up more and more on lattes and macchiatos, as well as even dodgier stimulants, according to U.S. News. Coffee consumption among 18- to 24-year-olds  has nearly doubled in three years, while increasingly popular energy drinks like Red Bull and the shockingly christened Cocaine pack multiple... More »

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ADHD • Adderall • psychiatry • coffee • caffeine • college • energy drink • stimulant • student

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