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Complaints filed against 4 colleges over rapes	23.5.2013	Boston Globe: New Hampshire
Complaints filed against 4 colleges over rapes
Obama threatens veto of House student loan plan	23.5.2013	AP Politics
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama on Wednesday threatened to veto legislation by House Republicans that would avert a doubling of student loan interest rates on July 1 but allow them to vary with the markets going forward....
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Budget office: Obama would veto House Republicans' student loan plan	23.5.2013	Star Tribune: Politics

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We Want YOU To Be The New TechCrunch Startup Battlefield Editor	23.5.2013	techCrunch
One of the most rewarding aspects of TechCrunch's Disrupt events is the Startup Battlefield -- like a mini-startup school, the dozens of chosen startups that go through the Battlefield training process end up with solid presentation skills, hard-earned pitching prowess and newfound courage. We're looking for a bright, talented person to help manage this process, to take our Startup Battlefield companies from 1,000 hopeful applicants to 30 contenders to five sparkling finalists. As Battlefield Editor, you'll head up one of TechCrunch's most remarkable and valuable franchises and run point for it at our TechCrunch Disrupt conferences, held yearly in SF and NYC (and this year in Berlin).
The Grateful Grads Index: The Top 50 ROI Colleges	22.5.2013	Forbes.com: Personal Finance News
Which private colleges offer the best returns? Grateful graduates let their money do the talking.
College fossil-fuel divestment movement builds	22.5.2013	Twincities.com: Nation
SWARTHMORE, Pa.—In an effort to slow the pace of climate change, students at more than 200 colleges are asking their schools to stop investing
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College fossil-fuel divestment movement builds	22.5.2013	AP Business
SWARTHMORE, Pa. (AP) -- In an effort to slow the pace of climate change, students at more than 200 colleges are asking their schools to stop investing in fossil fuel companies....
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College fossil-fuel divestment movement builds	22.5.2013	Boston Globe: Vermont
College fossil-fuel divestment movement builds
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Coaches best-paid state employees in Washington	22.5.2013	AP Washington
OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) -- College coaches are the top-paid state employees in Washington, according to a list recently released by the state Office of Financial Management....
The unsustainable wealth of the £1m household	22.5.2013	Guardian: Comment is Free
A tenth of UK households now own at least £1m in assets. But the bubble will burst – and we'll emerge a more equal society One British household in every 10 now has total assets exceeding £1m, according to a new book based on work by researchers at the London School of Economics. A surge in stock markets, London house prices and the valuation of occupational pensions will "have pushed the entry point into that wealthiest tenth over the million-pound mark today", says Professor John Hills , the lead author. Hill – who previously headed Whitehall's National Equality Panel – points out this is real money, and a little bit of it will be used to secure an extra social advantage for the offspring of the tenth who now are so wealthy. It will pay for that master's degree, or the deposit on their "starter" home. That will have the effect of reducing social mobility because educational attainment will begin to depend more on having parents who can pay, and being able to take that good job in London ...
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Scots students may be 'squeezed out'	22.5.2013	BBC: Front Page
Researchers suggest students in Scotland could be "squeezed out" of their home universities if there is a yes vote on independence and the free tuition system continues.
Student Loan Problems: One Third Of Millennials Regret Going To College	22.5.2013	Forbes.com: Business News
Here's an indication of how burdensome student loans have become : About one-third of millennials say they would have been better off working, instead of going to college and paying tuition.
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When culture is treated as commodity, no wonder its temples are sold off	22.5.2013	Guardian: Comment is Free
From Baltic to the Lowry, grand building projects invigorated provincial life, but the attitude is: if it doesn't pay, why bother? Maria Miller used her first public speech as culture secretary last month to insist that funding for the arts will have to be justified by returns. If, in her words, culture is a commodity, albeit a "commodity worth buying into", then what happens to culture that doesn't pay "healthy dividends", as she delicately puts it? As luck would have it, a test for the policy comes with the mooted closure of one of the most controversial new cultural buildings in the country, The Public in West Bromwich . Its owners, Sandwell council, plans to have it rebuilt as a further education college. Miller would surely have it that buildings are commodities too (and they usually are). If so, why shouldn't The Public be treated as any other underperforming business (banks aside)? The Public was for many the nadir, or the bloated hubristic peak, of a recently bygone era of grand ...
The Inside Story Of The Harvard Dissertation That Became Too Racist For Heritage	22.5.2013	Think Progres
The Inside Story Of The Harvard Dissertation That Became Too Racist For Heritage
Fire destroys 118-year-old church in Lynn	22.5.2013	Boston Globe: Massachusetts
Fire destroys 118-year-old church in Lynn
NY funeral for student accidentally shot by police	22.5.2013	Boston Globe: Latest
NY funeral for student accidentally shot by police
FBI agent fatally shoots Orlando man with ties to Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev; 2 Mass. State Police troopers involved	22.5.2013	Boston Globe: Latest
FBI agent fatally shoots Orlando man with ties to Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev; 2 Mass. State Police troopers involved
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Funeral underway for NY college student accidentally shot by police during home invasion	22.5.2013	Star Tribune: Nation

Profiles: Iran election candidates	22.5.2013	BBC: World
Profiles of the eight candidates set to contest Iran's presidential poll
Feeling worthless, hopeless … who'd be a university student in Britain? \| Holly Baxter	22.5.2013	Guardian: Comment is Free
Mental health among students is not good, according to an NUS survey – little wonder, when their situation today is so dismal Being a student is hard, according to the latest study from the National Union of Students. Specifically, it's hard on your mental health: 80% of the 1,200 UK students surveyed reported feeling stressed, with 55% experiencing anxiety and 50% suffering from insomnia or sleeping problems. One in 10 reported "suicidal feelings" and, perhaps most poignantly, 40% of the sample reported feelings of "worthlessness" or "hopelessness". Getting into university is an increasingly difficult affair, which explains why we simultaneously celebrate and lament the excellent results produced by a new cohort of students each year, more often than not outperforming their predecessors. The reward for their collective achievement will be renewed competition for the best universities, the top grades, and – now that it's not unusual for fees to cost at least £9,000 a year – an experience ...

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