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NCAA Florida defeats Ohio State 84-75
2007-04-03 06:12:00
 A long, tough season ended with a Gator chomp again. Mission accomplished for Florida .The Gators were too much to handle once again Monday night, keeping their stranglehold on the U.S. college basketball world with an 84-75 victory over Ohio State for their second straight NCAA title.[Read More]
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Wheaties Honors University of Florida Gators
2007-04-03 06:11:00
 Wheaties(R) will issue a special-edition commemorative package honoring the 2007 National Men's College Basketball Champions the University of Florida (R) Gators (R). The 18-ounce Gators Wheaties box will be available nationally beginning in the next 2-3 weeks. The package features the Gators logo as well as an image of the basketball net being cut down on the front panel and an image of the mascot on the back. It marks the first time in Wheaties' history that the brand has recognized the National Men's College Basketball Champs as well as the University of Florida Gators . [Read More]
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U-T officials say they were unaware of point-shaving probe
2007-04-03 06:10:00
University of Toledo officials expressed disappointment today that they did not know a popular student athlete was under FBI investigation, accused of point-shaving. During an afternoon news conference, the university’s spokesman, athletic director and the men’s football and basketball coaches, joined to discuss federal charges against Harvey (Scooter) McDougle Jr., a University of Toledo running back accused of fixing games in return for cash, cars and other gifts.Authorities say McDougle helped Gary Manni, a Sterling Heights gambler, win money by intentionally affecting the outcome of a game so that the team didn’t cover the published point spread. McDougle also recruited other players to help in the scheme, authorities say. [Read More]
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Cheney may face tough crowd at graduation
2007-04-03 06:09:00
Some students and faculty on one of the nation’s most conservative campuses want Brigham Young University to withdraw an invitation for Vice President Dick Cheney to speak at commencement later this month. Critics at the school question whether Cheney sets a good example for graduates, citing his promotion of faulty intelligence before the Iraq war and his role in the CIA leak scandal.[Read More]
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Millions to Be Repaid After College Loan Inquiry
2007-04-03 06:07:00
Citibank, one of the largest providers of student loans, as well as five universities have agreed to pay $5.2 million to students and the New York State attorney general to resolve an investigation into student loan practices, Andrew M. Cuomo, the attorney general, announced yesterday. Citibank, which at year’s end had $33.7 billion in student loans outstanding, agreed to pay $2 million into a fund to educate students and parents about student loans. [Read More]
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Playboy Stirs Up Controversy on UT Campus
2007-04-03 06:06:00
A little bit of controversy has set up shop near UT Campus . Photographers and staff from Playboy are here for the next two days recruiting UT students for an upcoming girls of the SEC issue. Volunteer TV's Stacy McCloud has more on how the interviews and upcoming photo shoots are settling with East Tennesseans.Come October, it's football time in Tennessee!! But some University of Tennessee co-eds may be more focused on a magazine rather than the game."This is the annual college girl pictorial, and we're doing the Girls of the SEC" Playboy photographer George Georgiou said. [Read More]
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Toothpaste Vandal Strikes Again and Beanbag Catches Fire
2007-03-08 19:25:00
Friday, March 211:47 a.m. An immobilization device was put on a female freshman's vehicle that was not supposed to be parked on campus. The car was found in the Jogues Hall parking lot.8:49 p.m. Toothpaste was found in several keyholes on the ground floor of Campion Hall. Special maintenance was called in to clean the mess up, which became very expensive.
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Flash! Mob Floods Campus, Disappears
2007-03-08 19:22:00
Wednesday, March 7, 2007, at precisely 11:54 a.m., a crowd of approximately 50 students gathered in the Joseph F. Smith Building quad and started dancing silently to music from their headphones. After about one minute, the crowd dispersed and casually walked away, leaving bystanders confused. This seemingly spontaneous event was a flash mob. [Read More]
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Unprotected: A Campus Psychiatrist Reveals How Political Correctness in Her
2007-03-08 19:21:00
According to an explosive new book, Unprotected: A Campus Psychiatrist Reveals How Political Correctness in Her Profession Endangers Every Student, large numbers of campus shrinks think their job is to turn your children into happy and well-adjusted slutty, amoral, disease-ridden, atheists. Add any element of sexual androgyny to that mix, and it’s really time to put a gold star on the patient chart.[Read More] 
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Food Going Missing Campus-Wide
2007-03-08 19:19:00
A string of peculiar thefts on campus has left several students and faculty going hungry. The stolen items range from leftover food to salad dressing, and most of the missing food were people’s lunches.Within the past month, thefts have occurred all over campus, including Rarick, Albertson, Stroup, and Tomanek. Josh Janzen, FHSU student, has been leaving his lunches in the Department of Geoscience’s student lounge for two years. He has never had anything stolen until a few weeks ago when his container of cottage cheese disappeared from the refrigerator. Other Geoscience students have lost a pizza and a sub sandwich. Janzen stated “No one has ever noticed anything strange, but just all of a sudden the food goes missing.” Janzen noted “We’ve never thought about reporting the thefts, just putting up notes.” [Read More]
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Rising cost of college textbooks targeted
2007-02-25 21:51:00
College students are turning to the Illinois General Assembly for help with rising textbook costs. "Many students are already really struggling to pay their way through college," said Bob Skorczewski, a senior at University of Illinois Springfield and a member of the Illinois Student Association. "The last thing they need is to shell out hundreds of dollars more each year to buy textbooks." [Read More]
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Colleges, publishers set fair prices for textbooks
2007-02-25 21:50:00
Re the Feb. 16 story Colleges review ethics of textbook selection: In explaining high cost of college textbooks, publishers themselves note that students pay for much more than the printed volume. Additional resources such as more-frequent updates, websites, live online tutoring and instructors' manuals all contribute to the cost of a text, which serves as an entry to useful supplementary material.One major reason for expensive textbooks is college bookstores. For example, Barnes & Noble runs the Florida International University bookstore. As a corporate entity, it seeks to make a profit. The university also receives money from the corporation. The student buying books foots the bill.[Read More]
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Alabama college hosts n-word conference
2007-02-25 21:49:00
With a debate swirling nationwide over the n-word, a historically black college in Alabama has set aside four days to discuss the racial slur. Participants at the conference, which began Thursday and ends Sunday, discussed topics ranging from the origins of the epithet to whether juggling a few letters makes it socially acceptable at the "N" Surrection Conference at Stillman College .Organizers said the goal of the event is to challenge the use of the n-word "through the use of intelligent dialogue and a thorough examination of black history."[Read More]
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College's invitation to integrate made history
2007-02-25 21:47:00
There is no monument to Alma Shippy. No plaque describes how, in 1952, the shy teenager packed a bag of clothes, caught a ride in a friend's pickup truck and walked into history on the campus of Warren Wilson Junior College .It's an obscure vignette in civil rights history. Shippy not only was Warren Wilson's first black student, but one of the few to attend any segregated college or junior college by invitation -- and not by court order and armed escort.A core of Shippy's family and friends -- some of whom paved his way and some whose path was paved by him -- want wider attention for what they see as a bright moment of brotherhood in one of the South's darkest eras.[Read More]
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Online books are 'the future'
2007-02-19 02:40:00
College students spend an average of $900 a year on textbooks, according to a MassPIRG study. This figure is forcing some to look for alternatives such as buying used books or using library reserves. Robert Moll, a computer science professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, says the answer is online."I think [online textbooks] are the future. I think it's coming," Moll said. "You can carry a laptop now that's lighter than a book you can buy."[Read More]
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