Category Archives: Students

U-Wire: Undercover police at work in U. Maryland classrooms

When a government and politics major angrily yelled out “F— this” to his female political philosophy teaching assistant as he threw a blank quiz to the floor, he never expected it would lead police officers to follow him to class the next week.

But that’s exactly what happened. A week after the incident, his professor, Fred Alfrord, sent him an e-mail telling him the zero on the quiz was the least of the trouble he was in. He and the department had reported the incident to University of Maryland Police, which began to investigate the student as a possible threat.

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San Diego Union-Tribune: Moscow university orders foreign student lockdown ahead of Hilter birthday, students say

A leading Moscow university ordered its foreign students on Thursday to remain in their dormitories for the next three days because of fears of ethnic violence before Adolf Hitler’s birthday, students said.

Hundreds of students at the prestigious Sechenov Moscow Medical Academy were told to stock up on food and warned they would not be let out of the dormitories through Saturday in an attempt to protect them amid a marked rise in hate crimes.

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The New York Times: Gays Often Struggle at Black Colleges

So lured was April Maxwell by the promise of the black college experience, with its distinct traditions and tight-knit campus life, that she enrolled at Hampton University in 2001 without even visiting the waterfront campus.

A lesbian who is open about her sexual orientation, she arrived eager to join the extended Hampton family.

Instead, ”I felt like I was the only gay person on campus — it seemed like nobody was really out,” said the now 24-year-old Maxwell.

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The Chronicle: To Encourage Women, Princeton U. Expands Benefits for Graduate Students With Children

Princeton University has expanded a package of family-friendly benefits for graduate students that is designed to encourage more women to pursue careers in higher education.

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The Nation: The New SDS

Twenty-year-old Will Klatt, wearing a green knit hat, baggy jeans and black jacket pulled over a hoodie, stands before a Civil War monument at the center of Ohio University’s main campus in Athens. Although a February snow is falling steadily, more than a hundred students have turned out for this rally called by a new organization with a very familiar name: Students for a Democratic Society (SDS).

“Many of us at Ohio University have taken classes on the principles of democracy, on justice, on ethics,” says Klatt, “and with the presumption that we will use this knowledge, acquired in our classes, to become more informed citizens. Yet this knowledge we acquire is nothing if we do not put it into practice.”

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The Chronicle: More Teams in 2007 Men’s Basketball Tournament Meet Graduation-Rate Goal, but Racial Gap Persists

Colleges with teams playing in this year’s NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Championship have a better history of graduating student athletes than previous years’ contenders, but the improvement was not consistent across racial lines, according to a new report by the University of Central Florid

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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: Collegians too special for their own good

Fred Rogers saw it coming and knew it could be a problem.

A group of psychologists released a study this week that found today’s college students are more self-centered and narcissistic than those of previous generations. In part, the researchers pointed to overindulgent adults for raising children to believe they are “special” no matter what they do.

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Cambridge Evening News: Boozy students are a sick joke for porters

COLLEGE porters have been given jabs to protect them from catching Hepatitis B when they wipe up the vomit of boozing students.

Gonville and Caius College has admitted its outside porters are vaccinated against the liver disease after it emerged undergraduates have been warned over their binge-drinking.

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Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Students face off over college chief

To Clark Atlanta University President Walter Broadnax, a 5 percent tuition increase is barely enough to cover costs.

To some students, however, the hike is just the latest catalyst in a long line of complaints at the historically black Atlanta institution.

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Inside Higher Ed: Campus Downloading Crackdown

The music industry is ramping up its campaign against illegal file sharing by college students — and asking campus administrators to play a more central role in that process.

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MR Zine: The Students Are Stirring: A Campus Antiwar Movement Begins to Make Its Mark

Folks often ask, rather cynically, where are the students protesting the war? Well, the answer is that they are there — on their campuses and in the dorms — organizing speakers, rallies, and teach-ins. The fact that folks off campus do not hear about these events does not mean that they aren’t happening. What it does mean is that the media is choosing not to cover them.

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