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President Trump DID NOT protect the American People, and it’s Costing our Citizens their Lives!

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American Living in Italy Talks About Her Experience Dealing with The Coronavirus

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Red Cross Honors 12 Local Volunteers for Excellent Service

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WATCH: Nation's Top Party School Fights for Right to Keep Partying

Over at Syracuse University, there's this place called Castle Court where students used to gather and rage to celebrate football...

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Registration Opens for Giant Water Slide Heading to DTLA

If you're looking to tap into your summer childhood memories, get wet and have fun, then you'll want to register for "Slide...

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Colleges Target LGBT Students to Increase Enrollment Numbers

Did you know 20 years old is the median age that young adults come out as lesbian, gay and bisexual? That's according to...

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UCLA Campus Police Accused of Racial Profiling

The LAPD and USC's Department of Public Safety have both been accused of racial profiling before (most notably, last year), and...

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Students Allege UC Santa Barbara Mishandled Rape Discipline

(MCT) A group of UC Santa Barbara students filed complaints with the federal government alleging that university administrators did...

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University of Kansas Student Says School Gave Rapist 'Slap on Wrist'

Last year, a freshman at the University of Kansas was walking home after a Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity party. She was drunk,...

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WATCH: Columbia Student Will Carry Mattress to Every Class Until Rapist Leaves School

What are you supposed to do when your rapist attends the same school as you because the school failed to expel him? You could...

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Study: Active Learning Has Strong Effect on Black, First-Generation Students

In a recent study, active learning cut the test score gap between first-generation students and other students, as well as doubled...

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Women's College Students Fight for Transgender Applicant Inclusion

At the women's college Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, Mass., Open Gates (a Mount Holyoke student organization) is advocating...

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U.S. Colleges Screen Some Students for Ebola

At U.S. universities and colleges, 9,728 students are coming from Nigeria, 204 from Liberia, 169 from Sierra Leone and 95 students...

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California Community College Plan Aims to Boost Degree, Transfer Rates

(MCT) California community college officials are launching a new effort to ensure that about 250,000 additional students...

Jason Song

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'Princeton Mom' is Back (AGAIN), this Time Bashing Sugar Babies

The notorious "Princeton Mom" -- the woman who spewed out questionable advice to women, telling them to find a...

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‘Credit for Reddit’ Course Lets Students Reddit for Homework

While you’re procrastinating from doing your homework by spending time on Reddit, Massachusetts Institute of Technology...

Nicole Sazegar

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California Weighs Community College Baccalaureates to Close Degree Gap

(MCT) Driven by shifts in technology and educational expectations across industries, California’s higher education leaders...

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LSU Sorority's 'Senior Song' Calls Other Sororities 'Boring Chodes,' 'Sluts'

Well, well, well. Looks like we have another Rebecca Martinson-esque situation on our hands. Except this time, it involves seniors...

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Cal State LA's Master’s Program Receives Huge Recognition

This year, California State University, Los Angeles moved up 11 ranks from last year to No. 7 overall in Washington Monthly's...

Nicole Sazegar

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Don't Say 'Bless You' in this Professor's Class, Unless You Want Points Deducted from Your Grade

In your class syllabus, your professor may have written that your grade will suffer if you show up late to class, forget to turn...

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Colleges Find Teachers Need Teaching, Too — on How to Teach

(MCT) KENNESAW, Ga. — Michele DiPietro had his listeners in stitches with his impressions of dumb things college students...

Timothy Pratt

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Turn Down for What? Nearly 400 People Arrested Near ASU Over Weekend

Arizona State University has been known to be quite the party school, and school officials have recently tried to curb irresponsible,...

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Cal State Tries to Break Down Textbook Cost Barriers

A typical Cal Sate student is estimated to spend about $1,000 on textbooks a year, and a study done by the U.S. Government Accountability...

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LOOK: Students Joined #HandUpsWalkout Monday, Day of Mike Brown's Funeral

Monday, Aug. 25 was the day of Mike Brown's funeral. It was also the day the 18-year-old African American, who was shot and killed...

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Surveys Find Elite Colleges Still Not Admitting Many Needy, Poorer Students

The New York Times reports that a series of federal surveys has found that selective, elite colleges have hardly increased enrollment...

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Colleges Step Up Efforts to Warn Students of Sex-Abuse, Alcohol ‘Red Zone’

(MCT) Halee Bazer, a freshman at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Conn., said she has heard about the wave of sexual assault...

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California Governor Signs Bill Mandating ‘Kill Switches’ on Smartphones

(MCT) SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California Gov. Jerry Brown on Monday signed into law a first-in-the-nation requirement that...

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WATCH: Video Tells You Everything You Need Know About 'How to be a College Student'

Dear Incoming College Freshman, Consider this video the first and most important lesson you will ever learn on "How to...

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New York College Student Finds 10 Pounds of Cocaine in Suitcase

Let's be real for a second: it's hard to trust that a college student's first action after finding a 10-pound bag of cocaine...

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Cal State Northridge Poised for Another Fall Enrollment Record

(MCT) NORTHRIDGE - With Cal State Northridge poised to break another student enrollment record and hit maximum capacity, President...

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UPDATE: NIU Says it is NOT Banning Students from Social Media

Updated Aug. 22, 2014: The Huffington Post reports Northern Illinois University is not banning its students from accessing social...

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Iraqi College Students Share How ISIS Conflict is Affecting Them

Many U.S. college students have the privilege of going to class in a country that is not torn apart by war. In Iraq, it's a very...

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6 Alabama College Students Return Safely from Ebola-Stricken Liberia

The six Tuskegee University students who were stuck in Ebola-stricken West Africa are now safely back in the U.S., reports the...

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