Faculty, Students Plan Mass Protest At Indiana University To Protest Major Tuition Hikes

Indiana University enrolls some 43,000 students and nearly 3,000 academics. (Photo / prw_silvan via Flickr) On Thursday, students and faculty will stage a walkout at Indiana University (IU) to protest a range of institutional problems, including rapidly increasing tuition rates at the public university. Like many universities, tuition and fees have increased sharply, rising 45 […]

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On Thursday, students and faculty will stage a walkout at Indiana University (IU) to protest a range of institutional problems, including rapidly increasing tuition rates at the public university. Like many universities, tuition and fees have increased sharply, rising 45 percent in the past six years, contributing to the more than $1 trillion that

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Yo-Yo Ma Joins Rocker To Call For US Arts Funding

In this March 19, 2012 file photo, world-famous cellist Yo-Yo Ma plays in the rotunda of the State of Illinois building, the James R. Thompson Center, in Chicago. Yo-Yo Ma and former Guns N’ Roses drummer Matt Sorum were on Capitol Hill Tuesday to urge lawmakers to increase funding for the arts in a year […]

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Former Guns N' Roses drummer Matt Sorum joined cellist Yo-Yo Ma on Capitol Hill on Tuesday to urge lawmakers to increase funding for the arts in a year of deep federal budget cuts. The rocker and classical musician played a jam session briefly together for a gathering of legislators and arts advocates from across the country who planned to visit

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Autistic California Student Reinstated After Court Ruling

Police in Temecula, Calif., conducted drug sweeps at area high schools, and in December 2012, arrested an autistic teenager for drug possession. An undercover officer who pretended to be the boy’s friend coerced the student into trying to purchase marijuana. (Photo/screen grab) “The students and teachers have been incredibly supportive of him, which has been […]

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“The students and teachers have been incredibly supportive of him, which has been wonderful because he was very nervous about returning. He still experiences bouts of anxiety because of his arrest in December, but he is really happy to be back,” said Doug and Catherine Snodgrass in a written statement to Mint Press News. In a December 2012 drug

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Pain Bites Into Portuguese Life As Crisis Deepens

In this photo taken on February 20, 2013, an elderly woman eats her meal with other people in the eating hall of the Portuguese Catholic charity organization Santa Casa da Misericordia in Lisbon. Taxes and cuts in previous years had already cut pensioners income by 20 percent as the government looked to cut the national […]

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Serving a frugal lunch in their kitchen not much bigger than a bathroom, Pedro and Elena Baptista spoon stewed chicken feet onto their boiled potatoes and leave the slightly meatier wings for their 12-year-old daughter, Vania, and 7-year-old son, Joao. The Baptista family counts itself among the casualties of an unrelenting financial crisis that

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Breaking Up Big Busing: The Future of School Transportation

School buses line up to drop off students in New York, Tuesday, Jan. 15, 2013. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig) Atlantic Express, New York City’s largest school-bus contractor, is having a rough ride. Under the city’s new competitive bidding process, much smaller bus companies with cheaper labor costs severely underbid the behemoth operator, which has been a fixture […]

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School buses line up to drop off students in New York, Tuesday, Jan. 15, 2013. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

Atlantic Express, New York City’s largest school-bus contractor, is having a rough ride. Under the city’s new competitive bidding process, much smaller bus companies with cheaper labor costs severely underbid the behemoth operator, which has been a fixture in New York City since 1972. In the meantime, drivers face pay cuts of up to 7.5 percent

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Rutgers Commissioning Review Of Basketball Scandal

Rutgers University President Robert Barchi announces he accepted the resignation of athletic director Tim Pernetti, in this April 5, 2013 file photo taken in New Brunswick, N.J. Barchi visits the school’s Newark campus Monday April 8, 2013 to hold a town hall meeting that had been planned for last week but was postponed after a […]

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Rutgers University announced Monday that it's commissioning an independent review of the conduct of fired basketball coach Mike Rice and the way the university handled the situation when it learned that he was kicking and shoving players and berating them with gay slurs in practice. The review ensures that the saga will not end quickly or

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