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I don't care what side you are from, what race you are, there is some truth to what this guy has to say here. Younger america needs to realize that one day we will be on our own, no mommy and daddy, nobody making the rules for us. Because we are young, most politicians do not listen. Because we are young we are easily manipulated, easily brainwashed and distracted. I used to think saying stuff like i am now was annoying. "it's just some young nut that drank too many redbulls." I like to party, get in trouble, take care of business. but if you really start paying attention to this stuff and see enough stories, you can link what's true and what is not. bottom line, our sh*t is tore up. coming from a 21 year old, semi-lazy, partyin college student, we all need to get informed and get our own opinions NOW.I don't care what side you are from, what race you are, there is some truth to what... more
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A list of recommended NYC Jewish classes for fall 2009.
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If you are one of the nation's college graduates living with your parents, shackled with student loans -- between $20,000 and $80,000 --, and you're scare because you can't find a job in the poor economic climate.
Cheer up. It could be worse.
If you are one of the nation's college graduates living with your parents, shackled with student loans -- between $20,000 and $80,000 --, and you're not worried because you're banking on all of it to just go away. Run!
Fly away and disappear, because your student loans won't.
Mark Jesperson has $350,000 in student loans, and he must pay it all back.
The Eighth US Circuity Court of Appeals has ruled that he will have to pay back every cent.
Student loans are incredibly difficult to discharge, even if you're debt load is "shockingly immense". This is because a borrower must show "undue hardship", a higher burden than required to successfully declare bankruptcy for most consumer debt.
"The system's set up as such that most people -- people like myself -- cannot complete a professional degree without the help of student loans," said Mark Jesperson. "There's no starting over me....this is it."If you are one of the nation's college graduates living with your parents, shackled... more
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http://www.triponadeal.com This week we reveal the secrets to snagging the cheapest flights available online. The best booking sites, the best times to book and the insider tips the airlines don’t talk about. Get all the links to the sites featured on this show at triponadeal.com
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Devin Lyons typically starts his days this summer cooking fresh eggs for breakfast from the farm's chicken coop. Then, depending on the weather, he and a dozen other college students might cut hay in the field using a team of oxen, turn compost or weed vegetable beds.
While other college students are in stuffy classrooms, about a dozen are earning credit tending a Vermont farm. For 13 weeks, 12 credits and about $12,500, the Green Mountain College students plow fields with oxen or horses, milk cows, weed crops and grow and make their own food, part of an intensive course in sustainable agriculture using the least amount of fossil fuels.
"Lots of schools study sustainable agriculture but I don't think any of them put it into practice," said spokesman Kevin Coburn.
There are no tractors on the 22 acres next to the brick campus of the small liberal arts college on the edge of the town — just two teams of oxen, and goats, pigs, two cows, and chickens.
Students sleep in tents on the field's edge, next to a river. They spend about six hours a week in classes in the old farmhouse, learning theory on organic crop and animal management; management of farm systems; development of agricultural technologies with a focus on human and animal power; and the social and cultural importance of regional food. The rest of the time they're out in the field, or doing homework and working on research projects.
"So they're actually seeing the applications firsthand," said Kenneth Mulder, manager of the college's Cerridwen Farm, who runs the summer program.
College farming is growing. According to the Rodale Institute in Pennsylvania, more than 80 schools now have hands-on and classroom-based farm programs. Many of them are organic vegetable farms, but students don't necessarily earn as many credits as Green Mountain College students do, nor do they get to work with teams of oxen. Sterling College, also in Vermont, has a similar program.Devin Lyons typically starts his days this summer cooking fresh eggs for breakfast... more
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Margaret Ann Medley, Dothan, started coming to Seale Harrs diabetes camps 15 years ago. To say the camp experience has been a remarkable part of her life is an understatement.
I don’t think anyone is surprised that Margaret Ann has flourished in college. A 2008 inductee into the Brevard College Institute for Women in Leadership, she has turned into quite the campus leader. Margaret Ann has also been active with the Brevard College Department of Theatre Studies and a participant in Brevard’s Voices of the River (VOR) program.
Read more at campascca.org/journal and asccafriends.orgMargaret Ann Medley, Dothan, started coming to Seale Harrs diabetes camps 15 years... more
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P.H.A.T.W.A.
*profanity warning*
1. Montezuma’s Revenge in Reverse
2. California Droughting
3. Coke Crude
4. New School student beat down
5. London PoPo G20 murder
6. RNC 8 are not terrorists
7. Univ. of Colorado gets pwend
8. Obama’s war chest
9. P.H.A.T.W.A.
10. Skidmark Bob of Free Radio Santa Cruz
these articles and more at the link aboveP.H.A.T.W.A.
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1. Montezuma’s Revenge in Reverse
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It costs $47,430 to attend Amherst College this year, including tuition, fees, room and board, according to the Amherst’s website. About 52 percent of students receive financial aid, Hanna said.
“Financial aid, access and diversity have been a core part of our Amherst experience,” said junior history major and student government member, Mason Bradbury. “What we [students] really hope to accomplish is allowing for future Amherst students to have what we think is a fundamental part of an Amherst education.”
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For more about Amherst College: http://www.communiversity.com/schools/amherst_college/It costs $47,430 to attend Amherst College this year, including tuition, fees, room... more
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Chart shows virginity rates among students at Wellesley College according to the student's major.
1. 0% of students with 'studio arts' major are virgins
2. Virginity rates for Spanish major (43%) is much lower than virginity rates for English and French majors (50%)
3. There is evidence that geeks get laid the least in college. Check out the rates for Biology, Chemistry and Mathematics.
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See more about Wellesley College: http://www.communiversity.com/schools/wellesley_college/Chart shows virginity rates among students at Wellesley College according to the... more
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I was scouring the internets for some interesting college news and came across this...
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(Marquette, Michigan) - While Upper Peninsula residents endured an arctic blast, two Northern Michigan University students started the New Year learning about Fair Trade during the peak of the coffee growing season in Nicaragua.
Since their return on January 12, Lisa McCarthy and Sarah Swanson have begun a series of presentations at U.P. churches to encourage Americans to buy Fair Trade coffee that ensures poor Nicaraguan farmers don't lose money in the labor-intensive industry of coffee production.
In part 1 of a three-part video series, the students look at the role of faith communities, Nicaragua coffee farmers, and coffee cooperatives in Fair Trade movement; Northern Michigan University students talk about work that goes into growing coffee including wet mills, dry mills and the process of quality/taste testing called "cupping."
From staring into the mouth of the Masaya Volcano to traveling narrow mountain roads to stay with coffee-farming families to picking beans and participating in all phases of coffee production, the trip was a myth-shattering experience.
The students are the latest of hundreds of faith community representatives traveling to Central American over the last decade with Lutheran World Relief (LWR) to get a quick course on Fair Trade while erasing misconceptions about Nicaragua's hard-working low-income farmers who take pride in their coffee.(Marquette, Michigan) - While Upper Peninsula residents endured an arctic blast, two... more
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Northern Michigan University students Lisa McCarthy and Sarah Swanson are giving presentations across the Upper Peninsula on their recent Lutheran World Relief trip to Nicaragua during which they met with coffee farmers and learned about fair trade.
The NMU students were among 13 Americans on Lutheran World Relief Study Tour entitled NICARAGUA: Pour Justice to the Brim from January 5-12, 2009
The group visited the capitol of Managua, and the coffee growing regions of Matagalpa, Jinotega and La Reyna.
Fair trade ensures fair wages, and protects women's rights and human rights plus fights poverty and protects the environment.
At the peak of the coffee harvest, the students visited many aspects of the industry including dry mills, wet mills and coffee cooperatives.
They spoke on January 13, 2008 to a group at the St. Mark's Lutheran Church (Evangelical Lutheran Church in America ) in Marquette, MI.Northern Michigan University students Lisa McCarthy and Sarah Swanson are giving... more
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Photo by Lisa McCarthy
Two Northern Michigan University students are promoting Fair Trade for Nicaragua coffee farmers and others during presentations at churches across the Upper Peninsula.
In January 2009, the students were among 13 Americans on a Lutheran World Relief trip to Nicaragua during which they met with coffee farmers and learned about Fair Trade.
Fair trade ensures fair wages, and protects human and worker’s rights plus helps fight poverty and protect the environment.
The students, Lisa McCarthy of Greenville, WI and Sarah Swanson of Rapid River, MI, returned from Nicaragua on January 12, 2009 and spoke the next day to a group at the St. Mark's Lutheran Church (Evangelical Lutheran Church in America) in Marquette, MI.Photo by Lisa McCarthy
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A new poll says that nearly one quarter of college students graduate with more than $5,000 in credit card debt.
1 in 10 of those surveyed said they owed more than $10,000.
Some students sign up for credit cards on campus, when the card companies visit and offer t-shirts and other freebies. But of those students who did, 52 percent graduated with credit card debt.
According to a 2007 study by student-loan provider Nellie Mae, the average credit card debt for college students is about $2,748. For a person who makes minimum payments, it would take nearly 18 years and an additional $2,506.01 in interest, at a rate of 15 percent, to pay off that debt.
In addition, how you manage credit cards while you're in college can affect your credit score for years to come, advises an expert from TrueCredit.com, the organization that sponsored the survey of 3,631 college graduates or people who have attended some college. Those surveyed ranged in age 22-40.
TrueCredit.com offers tips to follow to stay on top of your finances while in school, follow link to see those.
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While she was studying in Brazil during college, the one thing Stephanie Gerson longed to do before leaving was spend time in the thick of the Amazon rain forest. Unfortunately, she couldn't find a tour that would take her past the forest's edge.
Survey at college finds 27 percent of men and 14 percent of women willing to trade favors or gifts for sex.
Survey at college finds 27 percent of men and 14 percent of women willing to trade favors or gifts for sex.
So, when a college-aged busboy at a resort she was visiting began flirting with her, she asked him if he thought a tourist could survive alone in the jungle.
"He laughed and told me I was nuts," says Gerson, 27, who works part-time in online marketing for a chocolate company in San Francisco.
Then he told her that he'd grown up in the jungle in a nearby indigenous community. That was all Gerson needed to hear. Although she wasn't attracted to the guy, Gerson flirted right back in the hopes that he would be her jungle tour guide. It worked. The busboy wormed his way out of work, and the two headed into the rain forest.
"It was amazing," Gerson says of her adventure in 2000. "We built our homes out of palm leaves, I saw animals I'd never seen before, he taught me the medicinal properties of all the plants, we picked fruit off the trees, we swam with and ate piranhas. And, of course, we had sex ... for almost two weeks."
Gerson never felt sleazy or uncomfortable with her unspoken arrangement with the busboy.
"It was a good barter both ways," she says. "I got to stay in the jungle, and he got to have sex with a cute, young American girl."While she was studying in Brazil during college, the one thing Stephanie Gerson longed... more
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Between packing for college, buying school supplies and recovering from sticker shock, parents may be too bogged down to remember to pass on some financial words of wisdom as their child leaves the nest. To help college bound students build a foundation of sound financial habits, Better Business Bureau offers the following advice for parents to bestow on their freshman.
Last year alone, approximately two million students graduated from high school and headed to college. While most were equipped with bedding and books, many were ill-equipped on the subject of financial literacy.
According to a 2007 survey by Charles Schwab, fewer than half of teens considered themselves knowledgeable on how to budget money (41 percent), how to pay bills (34 percent), or how credit card interest and fees work (26 percent).
“College years are the time when many young adults establish habits they will carry with them for the rest of their lives and while it’s important that they tackle academics, its critical that they also learn everyday skills – such as how to manage their money – in order to become successful in life,” said Steve Cox, BBB spokesperson. “Aside from leading by example, parents have an active role to play in ensuring their children are equipped to handle their own finances away from home.”
BBB recommends that before parents wave goodbye to their college bound students, they sit down and discuss four key rules for managing personal finances:
1. Be responsible with credit cards.
2. Start saving money now, even if it’s just a small amount every month.
3. Pay your bills on time.
4. Guard your personal information.
Read the full article for more detailed information on the four tips.
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The president of Butler University, joined by college presidents nationwide, is calling for lawmakers to consider lowering the legal drinking age from 21 to 18 as a way to discourage binge drinking on campus.
"I wish that college presidents would attempt to deal with the problem rather than ignore it," said Jim Noffsinger, Indiana coordinator for SADD -- Students Against Drunk Drivers. "The (age-limit) law has been heralded as one of the most effective public safety laws ever passed." The college presidents, however, say the law actually encourages the worst kind of alcohol consumption.
College students, they say, will drink no matter what, and the law creates a "culture of dangerous, clandestine binge-drinking."
Fong is one of about 100 college presidents to sign a petition by the Amethyst Initiative to consider changing the legal drinking age in the U.S. Other prominent schools in the group include Syracuse, Tufts, Colgate, Kenyon and Morehouse. The only other Indiana university president to sign onto the campaign is Hanover College President Sue DeWine.
Not all university presidents in Indiana support the effort.
Purdue University President France Córdova did not sign the petition, but in a prepared statement, she said she supports finding new ways to prepare young adults to make responsible decisions about alcohol.
Indiana University President Michael McRobbie has not taken a position.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that 90 percent of all alcohol consumed by people younger than 21 is in the form of binge drinking. One study has estimated that more than 500,000 full-time students at four-year colleges suffer injuries each year related in some way to drinking, and about 1,700 die in such accidents.
The statement the presidents have signed avoids calling explicitly for a younger drinking age. Rather, it seeks "an informed and dispassionate debate" over the issue and the federal highway law that made 21 the de facto national drinking age in 1984 by denying money to any state that bucks the trend.
Drinking ages around the world vary, but in many European countries, it is 18. And the group behind the push notes on its Web site that the U.K., Germany, Australia, The Netherlands and Canada all had bigger declines in alcohol-related traffic fatalities than the U.S. during a 10-year period from 1982 to 1992 -- the time when the U.S. made 21 the national standard.
The Amethyst Initiative also notes that while adults younger than 21 can vote and enlist in the military, they are not considered mature enough to drink.The president of Butler University, joined by college presidents nationwide, is... more
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NEW YORK - Graduate students seem to be pulling out their credit cards more often to pay for school expenses - a trend that worries financial experts.
A study released Wednesday by Nellie Mae, a company based in Braintree, Mass., that provides education financing for college students, found that more than nine in 10 graduate students had at least one credit card in the 2006-07 academic year. Their average outstanding balance was $8,612, up 10 percent from the $7,831 average balance when the study last was done in 2003.
While most say they try to make at least the minimum payment every month, just 20 percent pay off their cards in full, so student's balances continue to grow.
One reason graduate students carry a lot of debt is that they've been building on the $3,500 in card debt they carried when they completed their undergraduate studies, said Marie O'Malley, a spokeswoman for Nellie Mae, which is a division of the SLM Corp., also known as Sallie Mae. And graduate students typically are eligible for fewer grants and scholarships than undergraduates, making them more dependent on their own financing.
More than 94 percent of the students used their credit cards for school-related expenses, especially the purchase of textbooks, school supplies and transportation. Nearly one-third used their cards for tuition costs, and more than one-third used them to cover college fees.
"We know there are more cost-effective ways to pay for college," O'Malley said, noting that most student loans carry lower rates and better repayment terms than credit cards. She added that it was unclear if graduate students were unaware of alternatives or didn't take the time to hunt them down.
Business students carried the highest average debt at nearly $14,000 followed by law students, and medical or dental students.NEW YORK - Graduate students seem to be pulling out their credit cards more often to... more
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Two French research students found stabbed to death following a flat fire had been tied up and suffered horrific, excessive injuries, police have said.
The biochemistry students had been studying at Imperial College, London.
The bodies of Laurent Bonomo and Gabriel Ferez, both 23, were found in a ground-floor flat in New Cross, south-east London, on Sunday night.
They had suffered a total of 243 stab wounds to the head, neck and chest before being set alight.
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