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Moorhead students on the dangers of cell-phone indiscretion

Moorhead students on the dangers of cell-phone indiscretion

Three Minnesota State University – Moorhead students have won a $500 prize for making the video (above) on the dangers of sending risque cell-phone photos. Now can they make one about the dangers and distractions of texting in class?
by Alex Friedrich

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How JFK presented himself to Harvard admissions officials

How JFK presented himself to Harvard admissions officials

Here are the stellar insights that John F. Kennedy wrote in his successful application to Harvard, according to documents cited in The Huffington Post: “The reasons that I have for wanting to go to Harvard are several,” he wrote. “I feel that Harvard can give me a better background and a better liberal education than…
by Alex Friedrich

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Notes in the Margins: Legacies, immigrants and flushed socks

Obama pledges help for illegal immigrant grads Stepping up his demand to change the nation’s immigration laws, President Barack Obama on Friday promised graduates at a vast, multicultural community college that he’ll keep working to help students not legally in the U.S. to become American citizens. (Associated Press via The Washington Post) Debating Legacy Admissions…
by Alex Friedrich

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6 observations on this year's college application process

With today being the postmark deadline for students to inform colleges they’re attending, what have Minnesota admissions officials and counselors seen so far in the application process? Huge increases in the number of applications, from what I’ve heard — some that rival the 30-50 percent increases we’re seeing in the Ivy League. As Hamline University…
by Alex Friedrich

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Why some students aren't notifying colleges today

Why some students aren't notifying colleges today

Today is National Candidate Reply Date, when when students have to notify the colleges they want to attend. (It’s normally May 1, but I’m told the vast majority of colleges have moved this postmark date to May 2 because of the weekend.) But that’s not the case with all students and colleges. Joe Wicklund, admissions…
by Alex Friedrich

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Are more students applying to only 1-2 colleges this year?

Minnetonka High School college counselor Phil Trout, who’s president of the Minnesota Association for College Admission Counseling, told me this morning that the economy might have prompted a growing number of students to abandon the mass-application process this year: “I want to run this statistic. We’ve got some students who applied to fewer colleges this…
by Alex Friedrich

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Student: Seeing the Dalai Lama should be free

Student: Seeing the Dalai Lama should be free

Jan Michael Ihl via Flickr Inner peace comes at a price University of Minnesota student Kevin Reza writing in the Minnesota Daily about his frustration over having to pay up to $250 to see the Dalai Lama speak at the U: “I doubt that I am the only one who thinks it is outrageous to…
by Alex Friedrich

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Black undergrad sorority once again on campus at Univ. of Minn.

“Without [black sororities on campus,] a part of our culture was missing.” — Tahirah Whitelaw on why it’s important that Zeta Phi Beta recently took in seven members at the University of Minnesota — the first time a black undergraduate sorority has been on campus in almost a decade. Read the full Minnesota Daily article…
by Alex Friedrich

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What's new at the U: Forester's Day, Amplatz and Fareed Zakaria

What's new at the U: Forester's Day, Amplatz and Fareed Zakaria

In this edition: We partake in timbersports with the U’s Forestry Club, recognize the opening of the new Amplatz Children’s Hospital and sit in on a lecture by noted author and CNN contributor Fareed Zakaria.
by Alex Friedrich

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Notes in the Margins: Wikis, defaults and bottled water

Texas college turns football field into farm In Texas, where football fields are hallowed ground, the state’s oldest historically black college is planting the seeds for community change between its fading goalposts. (Associated Press via The Boston Globe) Feds chase more student loan defaults The number of people who aren’t paying back their student loans…
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