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(U-WIRE) HANOVER, N.H. - Free tuition for students whose familes earn $75,000 or less per year and a universal shift from student loans to scholarships headlined a series of sweeping changes to Dartmouth's financial aid policy announced by College President James Wright Tuesday.
(U-WIRE) TUSCALOOSA, Ala. - When the Alabama Legislature convenes on Feb. 5, the SGA-supported bill to remove sales taxes from college textbooks will be waiting to be considered. After the Legislature did not consider the bill last year, SGA President R.B.
(U-WIRE) AUSTIN, Texas - Sallie Mae, a popular education lending company, will no longer distribute private loans to students with low credit scores. The information surfaced in a Security Exchange Commission report filed Tuesday by Corinthian Colleges, Inc.
(U-WIRE) Some people do it at home. Some people prefer to do it in class. And some even do it while they are driving. In today's technology-obsessed society, it seems that there is no place text messaging cannot be done. Certainly, it is not uncommon to see students whip out their cell phones and work their thumbs at record speed as they quietly "text" - a word that remained a noun until recent years.
(U-WIRE) NORMAN, Okla. - Researchers at Oklahoma University have created an educational computer game that is currently being tested at seven Oklahoma schools. The center delivered over 1,400 mobile computers containing the game, McLarin's Adventure, late last year according to the center's Web site.
(U-WIRE) Apple Inc. said there was "something in the air" last Tuesday at the annual Macworld Conference and Expo in San Francisco as it unveiled a new ultrathin laptop. In publicizing it's size to the audience, CEO Steve Jobs placed the new gadget in a manila envelope, calling it "the thinnest notebook in the world.
(U-WIRE) What's in your pantry? Cheez-Its, ramen noodles, cookies, frozen Banquet dinners, EasyMac, hot dogs? Fresh fruits and vegetables, Lean Cuisine, Special K, canned chicken or tuna? "Eating healthy is expensive," said Nick Isganitis, a third-year psychology student at the University of South Carolina.
Dear David Hanson: Thank you for including me in your response to the domestic partner benefits article. Open discussion between all constituents at any institution is, I believe, the surest method for the most creative and productive vision. A wise, old Jesuit priest once told me that "loyalty and dissent are correlative.
Urinating next to a car, drunkenly flashing or being passed out in the streets used to be the Kodak moments that only your friends could retrieve. Today, these are the photos that Facebook groups are made of, groups such as "30 reason girls should call it a night" featuring more than 175,000 members with photos of girls collapsed on the street, chugging beer upside down, peeing, or any other classic moment that can be witnessed in Ybor City at 2:00 a.
(U-WIRE) GAINESVILLE, Fla. - A University of Florida team's research could soon double the number of known planets outside our solar system. The research project was made part of a larger program at the American Astronomical Society's annual meeting on Tuesday, according to a UF news release.
Over the years, UT and I have gotten along pretty well. Unlike the average biology student, I've never found myself unable to register for a class that's only offered every six and a half years. I've only had one professor actively attempt to assassinate me, and I am even pleased with my required bout with math - a hideous branch of the dark arts I have not been compelled to practice since the last time Advanced Exobiology for Desperate Fifth Year Science Students was offered.
Every year when Black History Month rolls around, I cannot help but think of it as a joke. Its goals are admirable, but ultimately it fails, and, in my opinion, insults black history as a whole. By reducing black culture to a few key figures and never expanding the repertoire of black pioneers we are essentially promoting the ignorance of black history.
Florida voted this week in the middle of one of the closer presidential races, on both the Republican and Democratic side, in recent memory. As usual, the voter turnout was lower than expected by some 'get out the vote' activists. As usual, the ready-made scapegoats have been derided, mostly the supposedly intransigent grip of apathy on young people.
