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Why was a cow on the Mac campus yesterday?

Why was a cow on the Mac campus yesterday?

Anyone care to explain? I’ve got a call in. Update: Mac spokeswoman Barbara Laskin tells me it’s for a secret video they’re filming, which should come out in a couple of weeks. President Brian Rosenberg is playing Scrooge. That’s all she’d say.
by Alex Friedrich

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A decade's comparison of UMN, Wisconsin med school costs

A decade's comparison of UMN, Wisconsin med school costs

Notice anything odd about the post I put up yesterday about the University of Minnesota’s med school being the third most expensive for first-year in-state students? Where was the University of Wisconsin? A decade ago, they used to be right near each other. Look at the American Association of Medical Colleges chart above. (I’m using…
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The University of Minnesota's new approach to research

MPR’s Tim Post is at the University of Minnesota’s regents meeting and will be writing about this later, but forwarded an announcement: Innovative new approach to industry-funded research announced by U of M The University of Minnesota today announced a new, unique approach to the way it handles intellectual property arising from research projects funded…
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Where did that inane St. Olaf phrase come from?

When I visited St. Olaf College last week, I wanted to find out what the expression “Um! Yah! Yah!” meant. No luck. The folks I spoke to really didn’t know. Then I found the 2005 St. Olaf magazine article above on the Web. Its explanation: The rouser, it turns out, is actually based upon the…
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How fairly is differential tuition being carried out in Minnesota?

“I think it’s all part of the puzzle. Universities have to find out ways to fund their programs, and (differential tuition is) part of it. But from a student’s perspective it can be difficult to continue to watch your tuition increase.” — St. Cloud State student leader Amanda Bardonner to the St. Cloud Times on…
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Notes in the Margins: Dead Week, citizenship and the no-sense debt boycott

At Va. Tech, gunfire is amplified into unshakable curse of the Hokie How could it be possible that on this beautiful campus tucked in the Blue Ridge Mountains, a place prepared with an alert system, lockdown plan and evacuation routes, blood could spill once more? (The Washington Post) Can Washington fix what ails American higher ed? At…
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