Posts Tagged ‘campus’
By Emily Rutherford - Nov 24th, 2008 at 9:30 am
Nothing wrong with a little aggressive self-promotion: this week’s Campus Beat headline goes to a political demonstration at Princeton that I’m helping to organize. The…
Tags: campus, Campus Beat, civil rights, college, drugs, gay marriage, higher ed, human rights, Proposition 8
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By Emily Rutherford - Nov 21st, 2008 at 4:26 pm
When students from Princeton joined representatives from other universities in New York City for a major march against the Vietnam War, they carried a banner…
Tags: campus, civil rights, photography, Proposition 8
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By Emily Rutherford - Oct 27th, 2008 at 5:44 pm
The early days of computer use at American universities revolved around huge mainframes running the Unix operating system, which was developed as a multiuser system.…
Tags: campus, computer science, Internet, tech
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By Emily Rutherford - Oct 24th, 2008 at 5:39 pm
Yesterday, I had the good fortune to hear Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg speak at my campus. Seemingly everyone I know at Princeton packed…
Tags: Antonin Scalia, campus, law, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Supreme Court
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By Tristan Fowler - Oct 23rd, 2008 at 9:36 am
How’s this for innovation? Colleges and universities are giving away free bikes so students don’t bring their carbon-spewing, planet-killing cars to campus. The University of…
Tags: campus, college, environment, higher ed, transportation
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By Emily Rutherford - Oct 20th, 2008 at 12:10 pm
I couldn’t pare down the news to fewer than 12 items this week, so I’ll offer one-line summaries for your reading convenience.
Some rather interesting…
Tags: campus, Campus Beat, college, higher ed
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By Pedro de la Torre - Oct 9th, 2008 at 3:42 pm
Earlier today, I wrote about how the University of Texas had threatened two students with eviction from their dorm room and a block on their…
Tags: 2008 presidential election, campus, free speech, politics, Texas
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By Pedro de la Torre - Oct 9th, 2008 at 2:19 pm
Two students at the University of Texas – Austin are being threatened with eviction from the dorms, and even with being barred from registering for…
Tags: 2008 presidential election, campus, free speech, Texas
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