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Cuts to Pell Grants Coming; Thousands of Students Could See College Money Dry Up

Category: Politics Author : Dan Evon Posted: December 17, 2011Tags : budget, pell grants, Scholarship, student aid The House passed a $ 1 trillion dollar budget deal that will make it harder to get, and harder to keep, Pell Grants. Students taking longer than 6-years will have their grants cut off and fewer Pell Grants [...]

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Two Students Shot at Texas Middle School

Category: News Author : Daniel McCall Posted: December 13, 2011Tags : harvell middle school, texas, texas middle school, texas school shooting Two students were wounded by gunfire during basketball tryouts at a Texas middle school on Monday, the >Associated Press reports. Authorities suspect that hunters may be responsible. Two boys, ages 13 and 14, were [...]

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Ron Paul Spending Christmas With 500 Students

Category: Politics Author : James Johnson Posted: December 4, 2011Tags : christmas, Christmas Vacation with Ron Paul, ron paul GOP presidential hopeful Ron Paul will spend part of Christmas holiday with 500 students in Iowa and New Hampshire. Dubbed “Christmas Vacation with Ron Paul” the students will help Ron Paul by heading door-to-door on behalf [...]

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Florida A&M Expels Four Students In Wake Of Hazing Death

Category: News Author : James Johnson Posted: December 1, 2011Tags : florida, Florida AM, Hazing Death, marching band, students, United States Officials at Florida A&M University (FAMU) have expelled four students for their role in the November hazing death of a marching band member. In a memo sent to the FAMU board last week university [...]

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L.A. Wind Fans Occidental College Fire as Students Evactuated: Power Outages Reported Across Region

Occidental College ​Updated at the bottom with the fire out. First posted at 1:24 a.m. Among the wind-related calamitous happenings overnight, including trees into homes and power outages far-and-wide, was a grass fire on and around the Eagle Rock campus of Occidental College, President Obama’s alma mater. You gotta think last night was a good [...]

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Fordham U Students Setup Birth Control Clinic Just Off Campus

Category: News Author : James Johnson Posted: December 1, 2011Tags : birth control, Birth Control Clinic, Fordham U, university After administrators at Manhattan’s prestigious Fordham U Catholic university refused to provide a birth control clinic students on campus decided to take matters into their own hands. Working with local doctors a make-shift clinic has been [...]

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Health education students recognized

Health education students recognized Health education students recognized BYESVILLE — The health education class at Meadowbrook Middle School earned recognition on several occasions for the importance the Rolling Hills Local School District places on involving community resources in the acad Read more on The Daily Jeffersonian

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High School Pressure: Why Students Need Shorter Days

This is a teen-written article from our friends at Teenink.com . Students have a limited amount of power in school, which is one of the main reasons for cutting classes. Students feel as though schools try to contain them and that they are not able to be themselves. They are forced to sit in a [...]

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UCLA Students to Occupy Banks in Los Angeles’ Financial District Downtown Today

Nanette Gonzalez Occupy denim shorts. ​Updated at the bottom: About a dozen protesters were arrested near the Westwood campus as part of a connected demonstration, apparently. First posted at 12:09 p.m. Following Bank Transfer Day, a movement that started here in L.A., local college students will march on banks today to protest higher education cuts [...]

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Are students really getting an “education” from educational institutions?

If you’ve ever listened to Pink Floyd’s Another Brick in the Wall (“We don’t need no education/We don’t need no thought control) then you already have a gist of what I am talking about. As an undergraduate student I feel like I am a memorization machine. I read the book, I pass the test. Read, [...]

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Transgender Students Could Cross Opposite-Sex Roommate Divide at UCLA Under Proposed Campus Dorm Policy

Sam T ​Traditional on-campus roomy situations at UCLA almost always involve boys living with boys and girls living with girls. But what if you’re a boy who looks like a girl and is in the process of becoming a girl? Could you still live with a girl? That’s a possibility because … … the school [...]

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Film-School Students Try to Start ‘Occupy USC’ Movement on Campus

Matthew Wunderlich via the Daily Trojan Sticking it to the mascot. ​Online USC paper Neon Tommy isn’t without a tinge of sarcasm today when it blogs of one student and his “solitary vigil” for Occupy USC: When asked if he was attempting to encourage others to join him in his protest, he responded, “I’m not [...]

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