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PopExpert Online Video Education Marketplace Raises $2M In Seed Funding From Learn Capital And Others	22.5.2013	TechCrunch
As edtech startups continue to challenge the current state of higher education, and various niche startups focus on educating people through digital means, yet another company is getting a boost when it comes to helping people learn. PopExpert, a learning marketplace that lets students connect with experts in one-on-one video chats, has just raised a $2 million seed round led by Learn Capital, with participation by Jeff Skoll, Ken Howery, Michael Chasen, and Expansion VC.
UVM hires new provost from NY school	22.5.2013	Boston Globe: Vermont
UVM hires new provost from NY school
Now let there be more learning (Cached)	22.5.2013	Hindustan Times: Views
Now let there be more learning
U of Vt. hires new provost from NY school	22.5.2013	Boston Globe: Vermont
U of Vt. hires new provost from NY school
San Jose State stadium renovation plan approved	22.5.2013	San Jose Mercury News: News
California State University trustees OK privately funded $38.5 million Spartan Stadium upgrade
Four walls and the cry for help	22.5.2013	Hindu: Opinion
Every hour 25 women fall victim to crimes; 11 suffer cruelty by husbands and other relatives; three are raped; and there is one dowry death.Horrific crimes against women have, in fact...
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Fossil fuel divestment campaign's victory in Australia will be a moral one \| Alexander White	22.5.2013	Guardian: Environment
Global climate divestment campaigns led by 350.org and Bill McKibben will have a larger moral impact than financial one Journalist and climate activist Bill McKibben is in Australia in June on his epic Do The Math tour , which aims to highlight the danger of fossil fuel company oil and coal reserves and encourage divestment. The tour was kick started by McKibben's Rolling Stone article, Global Warming's Terrifying New Math , which argued that in order to stay below the 2C warming limit, the global economy has a budget of less than 565 gigatons of carbon dioxide. Unfortunately, fossil fuel companies have reserves of carbon from oil, coal and gas of almost 3000 gigatons — far exceeding the climate's safe limit if it were to all be burned. This "math" has been known for some years before McKibben's article. The Potsdam Institute wrote about humanity's carbon budget back in 2009 , noting that even if we stayed within budget, we still had a 25% chance of going over 2 degrees warming. ...
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Police defend officer who shot NY college student	22.5.2013	Boston Globe: Latest
Police defend officer who shot NY college student
Police defend officer who shot NY college student	22.5.2013	Twincities.com: Nation
MINEOLA, N.Y.—The president of a New York police union is defending an officer who accidentally killed a Hofstra University student during a
Concert review: Imagine Dragons gives ‘radioactive’ performance	22.5.2013	Salt Lake Tribune
by Cimaron Neugebauer Special To The Tribune Published May 21, 2013 12:31PM MDT OREM • All the problems of the world became non-existent on Monday night when Imagine Dragons took the stage in front of 8,500 fans in the UCCU Events Center. The hometown crowd made of mostly high school and college students — and a few families — welcomed the band back to Utah County, the site of its humble beginnings. (Shortly after its inception in 2008, Imagine Dragons won Utah Valley University and Brigham Young University’s Battle of the Bands.) On Monday, in between songs, frontman and l... ...
7 Memorable Graduation Speeches by Entrepreneurs and Other Leaders (Cached)	21.5.2013	Inc
Among the thousands of graduation addresses given each year, these stand out--mostly for the right reasons. In 1994, I witnessed perhaps history's most insane commencement addresses, at Wheaton College in Norton, Mass. Connie Chung , then the anchor of CBS Evening News , offered a stream-of-consciousness recounting of a dream she'd had the night before--not exactly a Martin Luther King Jr.-style aspirational dream--a surreal story about using a portable toilet that turned out to be a zip-up garment bag. (I'm serious. There's a video here .) Nearly two decades later, I remember that speech distinctly, and it got me thinking about some other graduation speeches that were memorable for better reasons. Here's my list of the most insightful, imaginative, or historical graduation speeches ever given by entrepreneurs and other leaders. 1. Steve Jobs, Stanford 2005 The original iPhone was still two years in the future when Jobs gave this classic speech in which he told three stories : one ...
Take a hard look at racism, sexism and homophobia on college campuses \| Andrew Longhi	21.5.2013	Guardian: Comment is Free
My recent experience at Dartmouth College has shown me that we are still not the society we want to be Like many universities, Dartmouth College has venerated traditions. The annual Dimensions show – a festive, student-organized musical revue performed to entice admitted, but undecided, students to come to Dartmouth – is one such tradition. Many prospective students decide to attend Dartmouth because of how much they enjoy the performance. On 19 April, a group of students calling themselves "#Realtalk" interrupted the show , protesting sexual assault, racism, and homophobia at the university. It was a real jolt for the campus community. President Carol Folt cancelled classes on 24 April for the first time since the mid-1980s due to the backlash: a barrage of rape and death threats on social media sites and internet forums. The ugliness and volume of these threats – not to mention the negative PR – convinced the administration that the school was in a state of crisis. In place of its usual ...
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FAQ: Everything You (Didn't) Want To Know About the Rat Meat You Might Be Eating	21.5.2013	Esquire
FAQ: Everything You (Didn't) Want To Know About the Rat Meat You Might Be Eating
Employees at 5 University of California hospitals to begin strike Tuesday	21.5.2013	San Jose Mercury News: News
About 13,000 union workers at five University of California medical centers, including the one in San Francisco, plan to begin a two-day strike on Tuesday morning, union leaders said today.
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Obama needs to stop lecturing predominantly black audiences, some supporters say	21.5.2013	Washington Post: Politics
Trevor Coleman thinks it’s time for President Obama to get a new speech for black audiences. The personal responsibility finger-wagging, delivered most recently Sunday at Morehouse College’s commencement, is getting old. ...
Brown not expected to act on divestment this week	21.5.2013	Boston Globe: Latest
Brown not expected to act on divestment this week
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For Utah college presidents, raise in pay, ire?	21.5.2013	Salt Lake Tribune
by Lindsay Whitehurst \| The Salt Lake Tribune Published May 21, 2013 07:43AM MDT Utah public college presidents would get raises of up to 24 percent in July under a plan approved by the Utah Board of Regents. The extra money is designed to bring relatively low Utah salaries closer to rates at similar schools, a move Utah Commissioner of Higher Education David Buhler said is necessary to attract the best leaders. “Decisions they make can have an effect not just on students and faculty, but their decisions can also save the state millions of dollars,” he said. “We understan... ...
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Abbreviated pundit roundup: Tornado tragedy, GOP overreach and more	21.5.2013	NewsTrust Yahoo Pipes Feed
How awesome and furious was this fresh show of celestial fury, in a different century yet seemingly in the same place. That more lives weren't lost on that Monday and this one is a tribute to the preparedness that Oklahomans have built into their thinking. Now come the sad stories, the heartrending deaths of young and old, the miracles and the survivals, as the black funnel wraps itself in grief. Now come the recovery, the selfless deeds, the sacrificial giving and the comforting words. This is a time when patience is the supreme virtue and thoughtfulness second to none. Homes will be rebuilt and families brought back together, but it will take years to restore normalcy. Talk of closure and healing is premature. The hurts are impaled on our consciousness. The wrath of weather on full display reminds us that there are forces that do not answer to man. We are at their mercy and all we can do is ask for mercy. Crews lifted one boy from under the wall and were about to pass him along the human ...
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N.D. Congressman Cramer's abortion comments criticized	21.5.2013	Twincities.com: Nation
BISMARCK, N.D. -- U.S. Rep. Kevin Cramer is defending comments he made this month linking legalized abortion with school shootings.
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Wimps Versus Barbarians	21.5.2013	American Spectator
An all too familiar scene was enacted on the campus of Swarthmore College during a meeting on May 4th to discuss demands by student activists for the college to divest itself of its investments in companies that dealt in fossil fuels. As a speaker was beginning a presentation to show how many millions of dollars such a disinvestment would cost the college, student activists invaded the meeting, seized the microphone, and shouted down a student who rose in the audience to object. Although there were professors and administrators in the room — including the college president — apparently nobody had the guts to put a stop to these storm trooper tactics. Nor is it likely that there will be any punishment of those who put their own desires above the rights of others. On the contrary, these students went on to demand mandatory campus “teach-ins,” and the administration caved on that demand. Among their other demands are that courses on ethnic studies, and on gender and ...
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