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December 2007
- A Fight Club at U Chicago?!
  
  Chicago Maroon | Dec 1, 07 11:23 AM CST
  
  (Newser) - While the movie Fight Club spawned many imitators after its 1999 release, it took eight years for a fight club to emerge at the notoriously intellectual University of Chicago. Called Thunderdome, after the 1985 Mad Max movie, the fight club meets outdoors, on the quads on campus, late at night. There are up to eight fights a night, some lasting only seconds. More »
November 2007
- Why Is Harvard Escaping the RIAA’s Wrath?
  
  Ars Technica | Nov 27, 07 12:00 PM CST
  
  (Newser) - The RIAA has sent out 4,157 prelitigation settlement letters to a total of 160 schools this year, but Harvard’s mailboxes have remained noticeably empty. And it’s not for a lack of potentially illegal music downloading. More likely, Ars Technica speculates, the recording industry is afraid of two Harvard Law professors who are publicly hostile toward the anti-file-sharing crusade. More »
- College Gets Podcasted
  
  Los Angeles Times | Nov 24, 07 2:30 PM CST
  
  (Newser) - Want to attend Yale for free? Thanks to Apple, you sort of can. Many colleges, including Yale, Stanford and MIT, now offer free lecture downloads through iTunes U. You won’t get a diploma, but thousands of non-traditional learners don’t mind, the LA Times reports. “They thirst for understanding and knowledge,” said one podcasted prof. “Something revolutionary is happening.” More »
- Students Aim to Put Guns on Campus
  
  Time | Nov 22, 07 11:43 AM CST
  
  (Newser) - Thousands of college students think they have a way to make their campuses safer: more guns. Students with a license to carry concealed weapons should be able to do it on campus, argues the group Students for Concealed Carry on Campus. “It’s the basic right of self defense,” said one student. “Here on campus, we don’t have that right.” More »
- Price of Pill for Students Soars
  
  New York Times | Nov 22, 07 3:45 AM CST
  
  (Newser) - Female students at US colleges may be cutting back on reliable contraceptives because a quirk in a federal law has made birth-control pills up to four times more expensive, health officials warn. A recent change in Medicaid regulations means drug companies no longer offer big discounts to health centers where students and low-income women obtain the pills, the New York Times reports. More »
- Tenure Goes the Way of the Typewriter
  
  New York Times | Nov 20, 07 11:12 AM CST
  
  (Newser) - Tenured professors are looking rarer than motivated students on college campuses these days. To save money and allow greater flexibility, universities are loading up on part-time instructors, a trend some worry is lowering educational quality. Part-timers are less likely to have doctorates and, as they bounce from university to university, have less time to prepare or meet with students, the Times reports. More »
- House: No More College File Sharing!
  
  CNET | Nov 10, 07 11:02 AM CST
  
  (Newser) - House Dems have introduced a bill that would force universities to do more to crack down on illegal file sharing, on pain of yanking their federal aid. Schools would have to provide alternatives to illegally downloading music and movies, such as pay file-sharing sites. A letter signed by several top university bigwigs calls the threatened action "inappropriate and punitive." More »
- MIT Sues Gehry for Negligence
  
  Boston Globe | Nov 6, 07 5:35 PM CST
  
  (Newser) - One of the most famous buildings on the MIT campus is plagued by design flaws, the school says, and it has sued Frank Gehry, alleging the world-famous architect provided "deficient design services" for the $300 million project. The university paid Gehry $15 million to design the Stata Center, which opened in in 2004—and immediately began to fall apart, MIT charges. More »
- Oregon Moves to Quash RIAA Subpoenas
  
  Ars Technica | Nov 2, 07 3:08 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - The University of Oregon will support 17 students the RIAA accused of illegal file-sharing. Represented by the Oregon Attorney General's office, the university requested a federal judge invalidate the RIAA's subpoena seeking the students' names. The school argued the subpoena puts an undue burden on it to "create documents that do not exist, simply for the purposes of discovery," Ars Technica reports. More »
October 2007
- Canaries Get Company in Coal Mines: Recent Grads
  
  Christian Science Monitor | Oct 31, 07 4:30 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Coal-mining companies are successfully recruiting college kids, promising better work conditions than the industry’s muddied image might suggest, the Christian Science Monitor reports. Some 60% of the current workforce could retire over the next decade, and jobs are suddenly abundant; young people are finding themselves explaining to their parents that there’s money and career security to be found underground. More »
- Average Private College Tuition Rises to $32,307
  
  Bloomberg | Oct 22, 07 7:10 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - The average annual cost of attending a private four-year college increased nearly 4% to $32,307 this school year, the biggest increase since 2001, the College Board said today. Tuition at four-year public schools rose 3.8 percent to $13,589, the report said. The figures, adjusted for inflation, do not include room and board. More »
- Noose on Columbia Prof's Door Viewed as Hate Crime
  
  Associated Press | Oct 10, 07 12:57 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Columbia University erupted today after a noose was found hanging from the door of Madonna Constantine, a black professor who often writes about racism. The New York Police Department said it is investigating the incident as a hate crime. Columbia’s president called it “an attack on all of us,” and students vowed to wear black and rally. More »
- Big Salary Now, No Job Later
  
  Chronicle of Higher Education | Oct 10, 07 12:17 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Computer science majors face rosy job prospects after graduation but a dimmer long-term career outlook. In 2007 the average starting salary offer in the field rose to a seven-year peak of $53,051, the Chronicle of Higher Education reports. But young grads should enjoy the money while they can: Layoffs and "restructuring" await mid-career employees. More »
September 2007
- Colleges Don’t Care if Kids Can Write
  
  Boston Globe | Sep 20, 07 3:57 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - The hours and dollars spent on SAT writing preparation might be for naught, the Boston Globe reports, as 56% of four-year colleges don’t even use the newest section of the aptitude test. Skeptics find fuel in a study showing that big words were all it took to achieve near-perfect scores. "These aren't higher-level learning measures," one admissions officer says. More »
- Recruiters Pick Top 10 Biz Schools
  
  Wall Street Journal | Sep 18, 07 8:12 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Ivy Leaguers and Mormons round out this year's eclectic list of top MBA programs. To come up with the rankings WSJ and Harris Interactive asked 4,430 recruiters to rank M.B.A. programs on 21 attributes, including leadership potential, and communication skills. National Rankings: Dartmouth College (Tuck) University of California, Berkeley (Haas) Columbia University More »
- Yale Returns Artifacts to Peru
  
  Yale Daily News | Sep 17, 07 1:08 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - A group of artifacts taken from Machu Picchu almost a century ago for Yale's Peabody Museum will be returned, Yale and the Peruvian government announced on Friday. The collection to be returned consists of 380 museum-quality objects, as well as part of those in the research collection. Yale will grant Peru title on all excavated objects. More »
- Educated People Less Likely to Die of Cancer
  
  Reuters | Sep 12, 07 2:49 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - People who attend college have a better chance of surviving cancer, according to a new study published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute . Mortality rates—especially for lung, colorectal, breast and prostate cancer—were markedly lower among people with more than 12 years of education. More »
- College Kids Addicted to Credit Cards
  
  BusinessWeek | Sep 9, 07 3:07 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - College students are preferring plastic to low-rent living, a trend that has banks and consumer advocates battling over credit card plugs on campus. Critics say students are susceptible to easy money marketing and rack up too much debt. Banks blame students for not reading the fine print. With Dems in charge of the Hill, new laws may limit student credit. More »
- Congress Delivers Loan Relief for Needy Students
  
  New York Times | Sep 8, 07 4:00 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Congress yesterday passed a student loan reform bill that slashes billions of dollars from lender subsidies and redirects the funds into grants for low-income students, the New York Times reports. The sweeping measure will cut $20B from federal lender subsidies, halve the interest rate on need-based loans, and pump $12B into Pell grants for needy students. More »
- 15-Year-Old Frosh Enters UPenn
  
  Associated Press | Sep 3, 07 3:33 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Brittney Exline is just 15, but Wednesday she begins her Ivy League career at UPenn. The Colorado Springs native started sixth grade at age 8, and finished high school math at 13, the AP reports. "Her motivation, discipline and maturity provided clear evidence that, despite her age, she was ready to travel halfway across the country and thrive," said an admissions dean. More »