Seniors Dara Levy-Bernstein and Marvin Gonzalez held a meeting Sept. 15, in the Sprague (Formal) Lounge, in which some 35 students assembled to discuss "the dismissal of [sociology professor] Philip Mabry," according to the e-mail Levy-Bernstein sent to the majority of students announcing the event.
"I guess things are really great, because nobody has anything to tell me," Max Magen, of Sodexo Campus Services, said on Friday in the Dining Hall. He was supposed to be hosting a Dining Hall Forum in the new "Dining Room," also known as the overflow dining room.
As brand new college freshmen flooded university campuses earlier this month, some were greeted with more than just a Nalgene bottle and a class of 2012 shirt. In an effort to bring the latest technology into the classroom, several universities decided to give every student a new iPhone or iPod touch.
Twenty-one isn't working, say university presidents across the nation. But while some are raising their glasses to the possibility of lowering the drinking age to 18, University of Toledo administrators said they are not convinced. The Amethyst Initiative, a source of national media buzz over the past several weeks, was launched in July and signed by 130 presidents and chancellors of higher education across the nation who say they want to start a discussion about lowering the drinking age back to 18 to reduce alcohol abuse in college.
Students at the University of Florida and nationwide have shown that drastic times call for at least one drastic measure&mdashto quit smoking. According to a report released Sept. 8 by the American Lung Association, only 19.2 percent of college students are lighting up, which is the lowest percentage since 1980.
While social networking can be beneficial for forming career connections, students must be cautious about what information is posted online for the world to see. "I've heard stories of another adviser from another university whose daughter's job as an intern was to be on Facebook and do research on potential hires," Pipkins said.
There's a fight going on at the Democratic National Convention. No, not the one between protesters and police. Nor is it the one between supporters of Sens. Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. It's a fight between representatives from different states, to determine the all-important honor of who has the youngest delegate here at the DNC.
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