Tag Archives: College
Report: Colleges Sneakily Use Financial Aid To Attract Wealthier Students At Expense Of Poor
May 16, 2013
A new report out this month found that affluent students are given more financial assistance than their lower-income peers. It’s a trend called “gapping,” where low-income students are given a financial aid package that does...
Museum To Honor Henry Kissinger, But Is He Worthy Of Praise?
By Frederick Reese
In recent American history, a litany of different personalities have occupied the executive office at the Harry S Truman building at Foggy Bottom. War hawks, accommodationists, international diplomats and isolationists have entered and left the position of secretary of...
Hawking’s Refusal To Attend Israeli Conference Spurs Divestment Debate In US
By Trisha Marczak
The movement to use peaceful, economic pressure to encourage the Israeli government to halt its illegal military occupation and construction of settlements in the West Bank is gaining momentum once again after renowned physicist Stephen Hawking stated he would boycott a...
US Universities Move To Deploy Drones Over Campuses
By Katie Rucke
Last week the University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) announced that the school would be using drones to assist campus police in maintaining a safe campus environment. While drone usage on college campuses has not received much attention, there are at least 25 universities...
Free NY College May Not Be Free For Long — U.S. Students Find Little Relief
By Martin Michaels
A free college education is a rare thing in the United States. With collective student debt surpassing $1 trillion and average annual college tuitions topping $22,000, students across the nation increasingly must turn to costly loans to afford a decent education.
Cooper...
East About To Be Overrun By Billions Of Cicadas
By The Associated Press
Any day now, billions of cicadas with bulging red eyes will crawl out of the earth after 17 years underground and overrun the East Coast. The insects will arrive in such numbers that people from North Carolina to Connecticut will be outnumbered roughly 600-to-1. Maybe more.
Scientists...
Four Dead in Ohio: The Search for Kent State Justice Continues (UPDATE)
By Martin Michaels
Forty-three years after the 1970 Kent State massacre that left four students dead and nine injured, survivors of the Vietnam War protest are still searching for justice, maintaining that National Guard troops murdered innocent student protesters.
In April of last year,...
Anatomy Of A Blame Game: Boston Bombing Suspect’s Friends Charged
By Frederick Reese
One month after the detonation of two improvised explosive devices at the 2013 Boston Marathon left three people dead and more than 200 wounded, the network of individuals thought to be involved in the attack continues to expand. Three friends of bombing suspect Dzhokhar...
When It Comes To Party Lines, The Tuition Freeze Debate Is All Over The Map
By Trisha Marczak
Colleges and universities throughout the nation are bowing to the pressure of state legislators, reversing tuition hikes in the face of opposition from lawmakers.
It’s a move that’s drawing support and opposition from the most unlikely of places — in Wisconsin,...
The Year Of Terror – But Without State-Sponsored Crackdowns
By John Nordin
It was only the second day of the year when it began. An explosion at an electrical substation in Oakland, Calif., damaged some transformers but did not succeed in disrupting the electrical grid. No one was ever arrested.
The very same day members of an anti-war group threw...
