HARTFORD, Conn. — Two years into a fight to stay in the U.S., Mexican college student Mariano Cardoso learned of a victory last week – not from immigration authorities, but from a U.S. senator who had taken up his cause.On a call to h…
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Donald Trump: Obama Wasn’t Qualified For Ivy League
NEW YORK — Real estate mogul Donald Trump suggested in an interview Monday that President Barack Obama had been a poor student who did not deserve to be admitted to the Ivy League universities he attended. Trump, who is mulling a bid f…
Daniel Hernandez, Gabrielle Giffords ‘Hero Intern,’ Loses Student-Government Election
PHOENIX — The intern who helped save U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords’ life after she was shot more than three months ago has lost the election to become student government president at the University of Arizona.The Arizona Republic reports tha…
Brian Dickson Arrested For Murder of York University Student Qian Liu
TORONTO — A 29-year-old man has been charged with the murder of a college student whose frantic boyfriend in China watched though a webcam as she struggled with an attacker, police said Wednesday.Brian Dickson was charged with first-degree …
NYU Dorm Fire Intentionally Started By Student Who ‘Appeared Suicidal’
FDNY has confirmed that the fire that started in Brittany Residence Hall Saturday night was set purposefully by an NYU student who “appeared suicidal.” The fire broke out on the eighth floor of the residence hall at about 9 p.m. but was exti…
Evan Siegel, Fifth Grade Crossing Guard, Saves Student From Oncoming Car
VANCOUVER, Wash. — A fifth-grade student who pulled a young girl out of the street as a distracted driver barreled through a crosswalk is being honored for his bravery with a major national award.Read More…
Work Begins On Dillon County School After Student’s Plea For Help Was Featured By Obama
DILLON, S.C. — Construction is starting on a new school in South Carolina more than two years after a student wrote Congress about the decrepit conditions at her school.Sixteen-year-old Ty’Sheoma Bethea and officials attended a groundb…
Police Say Found Remains Are Likely Those Of Missing RIT Student George Delany
COHOCTON, N.Y. — Authorities say they’ve recovered human remains they believe to be those of a New York college student from Maryland who’s been missing for more than a month.State police tell local media outlets that two hikers found the r…
Justin Amorratanasuchad, Emerson Film Student, Falls To His Death From Roof
BOSTON — The president of Emerson College says a film student fell to his death while working on a school project on an apartment building’s rooftop.The Boston Globe reports that college President Jackie Liebergott sent an email to stu…
4 Cringeworthy Student Newspaper Typos
The Crimson White, the student newspaper at the University of Alabama, was red-faced after misspelling the name of UA’s hometown in a recent front-page headline. The bolded header in the lead story inverts the L and the A in the historic So…
Quinn Matney, UNC Student, Allegedly Faked Hate Crime Report?
BREAKINGThe University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill’s Department of Public Safety has determined that a report of alleged aggravated assault filed by a student last week is false and the university will not be reporting it as a hate crime t…
Colin Carlson, UConn Student Prodigy, Named Truman Scholar
STORRS, Conn. — A teen prodigy and University of Connecticut honors student has won a highly competitive national scholarship that pays $30,000 toward graduate studies.University officials say 14-year-old Colin Carlson, of Coventry, is only…
Student Hit by Subway Car Mourned by Classmates
LOWER EAST SIDE — Friends and classmates of a Lower East Side student who died after striking his head on subway car last week expressed shock and sadness Monday at the loss of a bright and talented rising star in the culinary world.Bronx r…
Student Lyndon Baty Attends School In Texas Via Vgo Robot (Video)
From testing the surface of Mars to teaching lessons about environmentalism, robots have helped us envision the future. But for one young student in Texas, the future is now. Unable to attend class due to an immune deficiency, Lyndon Baty us…
Gabrielle Acevedo Dead: NY College Student Injured In Jan. Crash Dies
A college student from Westchester County has died from injuries suffered in a crash near her suburban Rochester campus last month.Read More…
New Data Shows Students At For-Profit Colleges Twice As Likely To Default On Loans
A quarter of all federal student loan borrowers at for-profit colleges defaulted on their loans within three years of beginning to repay them–more than twice the rate of their counterparts at non-profit institutions, according to new data r…
Student Papers Don’t Lack For Egypt Coverage
As the second week of volatile protests in Egypt commences, U.S. students can keep their pulse on the revolution abroad by going to their campus newspapers.Often wedding university-relevant coverage with a broader explanation of internationa…
Egypt Study Abroad Student Discusses Being Stranded During Protests: Exclusive Interview With Cornell’s Carolyn Witte
“All of the Egyptians thought this was just some protest and nothing really big was going to happen,” Carolyn Witte told The Huffington Post in her twelfth hour stranded at the closed airport in Alexandria, Egypt. Three weeks into a Middlebu…
Charlie Gilmour, Son Of David Gilmour, Charged In UK Student Protests
LONDON — Police filed charges against the son of Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour on Thursday for his role in last month’s violent protest against the British government’s decision to raise university tuition fees.Charlie Gilmour, 21…
SEC Requires Reporting Of Data On Loans
WASHINGTON — Federal regulators are requiring firms selling securities tied to mortgages, credit cards and student loans, which froze during the financial crisis, to publicly report information on the loans that back them.The Securities an…
Josh Le, University Of Alberta Student, Wears Same Pair Of Jeans For 15 Months
Good news: Turns out that wearing the same pair of jeans every day isn’t hazardous to your health.University of Alberta student Josh Le wore the one pair of tight, raw denim jeans for 15 months starting in Sept. 2009. At the end of his trial…
42 Tennessee Nurses Suspended For Defaulting On Student Loans
42 Tennessee nurses have had their licenses suspended for defaulting on student loans, according to the Chattanooga Times. A disciplinary action report released this month by the Tennessee Department of Health revealed that the October suspe…
Joshua Joe Brown Dead: Accidental Shooting Kills Tech Student In Dallas
A 29-year-old Texas Tech student died early Saturday after a friend accidentally shot him in a northeast Dallas residence.Read More…
Doyle Barnes, Nursing Student, Expelled For Posting Placenta Photo On Facebook
A nursing student at Johnson County Community College is stunned to find herself booted out of school just months before graduation.Her offense: Posting on Facebook a photograph of herself posing with a human placenta in class.Read More…
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Cops: Wisconsin High School Student Has Taken 23 Students, 1 Teacher Hostage [UDPATE: Hostages Released]
MARINETTE, Wis. — A student armed with a handgun burst into an eastern Wisconsin high school classroom at the end of the school day and held nearly two dozen students and a teacher hostage for more than five hours Monday, authorities s…
4 Seniors In Same Kansas Town Nab Perfect Scores On ACT, SAT
Charlie Wolock hit two academic bull’s-eyes this year, not only acing the ACT, but also achieving perfection on the SAT. Both tests aim to measure student academic ability and are used by many college admissions officers when making acceptan…
Kenyan Scholarship Student Stuns School By Breaking N.J. Running Records
At the end of the school year this past June, Edward Cheserek needed to get home for the summer. Short on bus money, Cheserek did what came naturally.He ran.He ran over steep mountains. He ran through a tropical rain forest. He ran across th…
Willow Palin Facebook Posts: Homophobic Slurs, Curse Words & More (PHOTOS)
Willow Palin, the 16-year-old daughter of former Alaska governor Sarah Palin, wrote multiple Facebook posts containing homophobic slurs such as “faggot” on Sunday night, according to TMZ.The web site reports that Palin’s teenage daughter wro…
What CSULB’s Student Officials Earn
Cal State Long Beach’s top student government leaders get $22,762 annually in total compensation, making them some of the highest-paid elected student officers in the Cal State University system.The Associated Students, Inc. president, vice …
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