Wall Street Journal: A Retreat From Big Cities Hurts ROTC Recruiting
The ROTC program at St. John’s University here seems perfectly placed for an Army that’s desperate for officers who are bilingual and comfortable in foreign lands. About 40 of the 120 students speak second languages, including Turkish, Korean, Mandarin, Hindi, Albanian, and Gujarati.
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The Daily Star (Egypt): Student blogger receives four year prison sentence
Egyptian blogger Abdel Kareem Soliman Amer, better known by his blog alias ‘Kareem Amer’, was sentenced to four years in prison for defaming Islam and President Hosni Mubarak on his Internet blog by a court in Alexandria Thursday.
According to Amer’s lawyer Ahmed Saif, the former Al-Azhar University student received a sentence of three years in prison for posing criticism to Islam and one year for defaming President Mubarak in his Internet writings.
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer: College students seek therapy in record numbers
The number of UW students seeking new medical evaluations for mental health problems such as depression and anxiety has nearly tripled in the past five years.
At SPU, one-fifth of its undergraduate student body has sought therapy, many of the students reporting that they were suffering from stress.
Universities around the country — including the University of Washington, Seattle Pacific University and Seattle University — are reporting increases in campus mental illness, at times creating a backlog of cases and weeks-long waits to see a therapist.
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The Michigan Daily: Minority admissions plummet
The acceptance rate of underrepresented minorities has plunged since the University was forced to stop using affirmative action in January, according to data provided by the University.
The numbers suggest that the affirmative action ban passed by state voters in November has had a dramatic effect on admissions decisions.
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The Daily Star (Egypt): Jailed student blogger faces threats as final trial approaches
Facing a prison sentence of up to 11 years for his controversial Internet writings on Islam and President Mubarak, Egyptian student blogger Abdelkarim Soliman Amer, also known as “Kareem Amer’, has reportedly received death threats from strangers as well as member of his own family.
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Hartford Courant: Yale Showers Run Too Hot
Sex is not a taboo subject at Yale, home to Sex Week, a biennial celebration that’s one of the most provocative campus events in the nation.
But a randy couple’s frolic in a shower at one of Yale’s undergraduate residential colleges prompted a professor to issue an e-mail of protest, which in turn has sparked debate on the Internet.
With the subject line “Shower Stalls are for Showering,” the e-mail begins “OK, well THIS is the most awkward college-wide e-mail I’ve ever had to send.”
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News-Record: Police end role in Guilford fight case
The Greensboro Police Department said in a statement Wednesday they would have no further role in investigating a fight this month at Guilford College.
Since charges were taken out at the magistrate’s office and police were not called to the scene by the alleged victims, the accused or college administrators, police said the matter will have to be handled in the courts.
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Chicago Sun-Times: 27% of top college blacks came from immigrant families
Black students with U.S. ancestry appear to be less represented in college than race-based statistics indicate, as immigrants make up a disproportionate share of admissions, a Princeton University analysis found.
First- or second-generation immigrants made up 27 percent of black freshmen entering 28 top-ranked colleges in 1999, according to the study released Tuesday. Such immigrants accounted for only 13 percent of all U.S. blacks aged 18 or 19 that year, the researchers found.
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News-Record: Update: ‘It was the most horrific experience of my life’
Updates on three Guilford College students who were charged in connection with a group assault that occurred on campus. A story appears below the updates:
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San Jose Mercury News: Student shocked by stun gun in campus library sues UCLA
A UCLA student who was shocked with a Taser by campus police after refusing to show his identification card sued the university Wednesday, claiming his civil rights were violated.
Mostafa Tabatabainejad, 23, alleges University of California, Los Angeles campus police officers used excessive force by repeatedly shocking him with the stun gun Nov. 14, according to the lawsuit filed in federal court.
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AP: Report blames Gallaudet U. students, officials, and police for confrontation last fall
An independent investigation into last October’s confrontations between deaf students and campus police at Gallaudet University says the actions of school officials, campus police and students contributed to the problems.
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The Saudi Gazette: Saudi Students held at US Airports
TWO separate groups of Saudi students were detained at Philadelphia and New York airports by US Immigration Authorities for violating copyright laws, reported the Arabic language daily newspaper Okaz Thursday.
The students were found to be carrying pirated software in their laptops. The Saudi students, who arrived in the US, said some of their colleagues were detained at New York airport for 48 hours. They said the US immigration authorities scanned all the contents and programs stored in the laptops by incoming Saudi students.
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Contra Costa Times: College students vow to fight tuition raises
California university students learned Wednesday that their brief respite from fee increases may be over.
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, who last year prevented tuition increases after four straight years of them, proposed a budget that calls for a 10 percent increase for California State University students and a 7 percent increase for most in the University of California system. Students immediately vowed to lobby lawmakers to repeat last year’s reprieve.
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KHOU: Dead UT pledge’s body contained anti-gay comments
As Phanta “Jack” Phoummarath lay dying of alcohol poisoning, members of the fraternity he was pledging defaced his body with numerous anti-gay epithets and obscene drawings, according to a medical examiner’s report and an attorney representing Phoummarath’s family.
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The Arizona Republic: Hundreds join protest of migrant-tuition law
Nearly 600 students and their supporters marched toward the site of the BCS National Championship Game in Glendale on Monday to protest a recently passed law denying in-state tuition to undocumented immigrants.
They chanted, “We are students, not criminals,” and hours before the game they were turned back by Glendale police a mile from University of Phoenix Stadium.
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A federal judge has issued an injunction ordering the State University of New York at New Paltz to reinstate two student government leaders who were suspended because of allegations (which they deny) that they harassed a university administrator. The judge ruled that the students had a substantial chance of winning their challenge the university’s judicial process in their case because they were denied the right to have a lawyer present at hearings. While the decision noted that this is not a general right in student disciplinary hearings, it could be a requirement for fair due process when the charges could also lead — as in this case — to criminal charges. New Paltz issued a statement that it was disappointed with that part of the ruling, pleased with the other parts (which did not find violations of due process) and was studying its options.
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Students and faculty members are criticizing what they call a pattern of censorship of student projects at the Art Institute of California at San Francisco, including the confiscation last month of several hundred copies of a student magazine with racially themed content.
ABC 7: Student Kicked Out Of School Over Art Project
A San Francisco student is accusing the Art Institute of California of censoring his work. Simone Mitchell wrote a piece criticizing the treatment of African-Americans in the media. It was too much for the institute. The story was removed from an internal magazine.
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Haaretz.com: University and college students strike over likely tuition hike
University students were intensifying their campaign against the Shochat Committee on Reform in Higher Education by shutting down ten institutions of higher learning on Wednesday.
The Jerusalem Post: Student strike shuts 10 university, college campuses
Frustration at recent Treasury decisions reached the boiling point on Wednesday as teachers decided to open schools late on Thursday in what unions are calling a “warning strike,” and student associations shut down university and college campuses across the country.
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The New York Times: Columbia Charges Students With Violating Protest Rules
Columbia University said yesterday that it had notified students involved in disrupting a program of speakers in early October that they were being charged with violating rules of university conduct governing demonstrations. The university did not disclose the number of students charged with violations.
Arizona Republic: Students to protest immigrant-tuition law
College students upset about the passage of a November ballot initiative that blocks undocumented immigrants from paying in-state tuition in Arizona hope to grab the national spotlight when the Bowl Championship Series college football title game comes to Glendale.
The students plan to march to Glendale on the morning of the Jan. 8 game and then rally outside University of Phoenix Stadium, said Cecilia Saenz, an Arizona State University student.
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