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Marijuana proponents urge colleges to mellow out

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College security tighter, but is it enough?

When shots echoed across Georgia's Albany State University last month, students started running and police cars rushed onto the campus with sirens wailing. Several students lay wounded on the ground, and a gunman was using a hostage for cover.

Sex offenders shut out of student neighborhoods

Lawmakers and college administrators are trying to shut paroled sex offenders out of one of the few places they can still live: Student neighborhoods near major U.S. universities.

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FIRE's Red Alert List: Universities that abuse basic freedoms include Tufts, Johns Hopkins,
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FIRE adds a college or university to its Red Alert list when an institution acts with severe and ongoing disregard for the fundamental rights of its students or faculty members.

ZZ Top's GUN LOVE all the rage on college campuses

Just when everybody thought college campuses were a peace loving bunch a new idea has surfaced that could bring back the "ugly" american past known as "gunslinger era".This is "Guns On Campus" week and of course Texas Tech students(fringe group,hopefully)will be wearing empty hol …

Is there a sex crisis on college campuses?
Source: Slate

...It is the time-honored duty of the adolescent to alarm adults (parents, in particular) by having wild and often idiotic fun—e.g., streaking naked across campus, playing drinking games, throwing things out windows, hooking up with an acquaintance or a friend who, in a flush o …

Binge drinking and drug abuse a problem on U.S. campuses
Source: Reuters

About half of U.S. college students binge drink or abuse drugs, and the number who abuse prescription medication such as painkillers is up sharply, a report released on Thursday found.

British Universities urged to spy on Muslims
Source: Guardian Unlimited

Lecturers and university staff across Britain are to be asked to spy on "Asian-looking" and Muslim students they suspect of involvement in Islamic extremism and supporting terrorist violence, the Guardian has learned.

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