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Eye-catching photos from around campus by the Knox Photo Corps -- students and staff in the Knox College Office of Public Relations.
STATE: SCHOOLS: At Arbor Preparatory High School, college is the end game (video)
Approaching Arbor Preparatory High School (6800 Hitchingham Road, Ypsilanti) near the end of lunch, one sees a sight that would make Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich smile: High school students, their teachers, even the principal, Matt Hudson, rolling up their sleeves to clean the common space that, for 25 minutes each day, doubles as the school cafeteria. (To the former Speaker ...
SFI winners defect, Trinamul wins
The root of the recent campus violence across north Bengal is the turf battle between Trinamul and Congress. On January 5, the principal of Raiganj College was beaten up by alleged Trinamul activists. The Congress led by Deepa in north Bengal is determined to protect its traditional bastion, where Trinamul is steadily making inroads.
Viewpoint: Sports coexist with education
The spate of recent criticisms regarding college sports — meaning the big-time revenue makers of football and men’s basketball, with few worries allotted to swimming or gymnastics — center on two arguments: that their behemoth existence is detrimental to the University’s mission of education and scholarship, and their prominence in University life is new. Neither claim is true. read more
Women's college basketball: Auction, Pink Zone Night set for Feb. 14
Silent auction items donated by the Super Bowl XLVI Champion New York Giants will highlight State Fair Community College’s “Pink Zone Night” cancer fundraiser Feb. 14 at the Lady Roadrunners home basketball game at 7 p.m. against Iowa Western Community College in the Fred E. Davis Multipurpose Center on campus.
Exceptional Rodeo held at Cheraw
The Third Annual Exceptional Rodeo was held on Wednesday at the Cheraw Junior High gym. The rodeo was co-sponsored by the Family, Career and Community Leaders of America and the eighth grade class, but 44 students from Cheraw plus the Otero Junior College rodeo team were helpers, not to mention the teachers and paraprofessionals who came with the special needs students from Cheraw, La Junta ...
Teacher stabbed to death in Naperville bar
An elementary school teacher was stabbed to death in a suburban bar. Shaun Wild was 24.
SFI winners defect, Trinamul wins Cong students jostle with police
Islampur, Jan. 25: The Trinamul Congress formed the students’ union in Islampur College today with the help of all SFI winners who switched allegiance to Mamata Banerjee’s outfit on a day fraught with clashes between the Congress and police.