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September 25, 2013 4:14 AM

Is Macalester College obsessed with squirrels?

Macalester College has made The Huffington Post‘s list of “Colleges Most Obsessed With Squirrels.” Wow, OK. I’m not sure what to say. But the Post does. Here it quotes from a college-related blog: Students have had squirrels jump on their feet, seen the critters refuse to move away from them and display “big and bold personalities.” Some Read more →

by Alex Friedrich

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September 25, 2013 2:30 AM

Notes in the Margins: Suicide waivers, parasitic profs and care-package condoms

Black Enrollment Falls as Michigan Rejects Affirmative Action Three years after the court allowed race-based admissions, Michigan voters blocked them at state schools through a ballot initiative. The result is fewer black students crisscrossing the Diag, the wide space that cuts through the heart of the university’s Ann Arbor campus. Black enrollment is down about 30 Read more →

by Alex Friedrich

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September 24, 2013 2:14 PM

NCAA lifts some of the sanctions imposed on Penn State

The NCAA will gradually restore the football scholarships the school lost in the aftermath of the child sex abuse scandal involving former assistant coach Jerry Sandusky.

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September 24, 2013 9:28 AM

How some Tommies reacted to their prez’s remarks about homosexuality

Alfonso Wenker, a University of St. Thomas alumnus who founded the Minnesota Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, Ally Campus Alliance tells the Pioneer Press about campus reaction to President Julie Sullivan’s convocation remarks supporting inclusiveness of homosexuals: “It was a pretty pointed statement. It’s no secret that St. Thomas has climate issues for gay students and Read more →

by Alex Friedrich

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September 24, 2013 7:38 AM

St. Cloud State building rare 24-hour all-Huskies sports channel

Joel Larsen, interim assistant athletic director for marketing and promotion for St. Cloud State University, tells the St. Cloud Times about the university’s plans to use $4.8 million to create a 24-hour sports channel: “This is a platform that not even the University of Minnesota has. This a television channel that anybody that gets Charter Read more →

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September 24, 2013 7:26 AM

Minneapolis teachers union wants contract talks in private

The Minneapolis teachers union has requested that mediators allow private contract talks with the district. The teacher's current contract expired months ago and negotiations have been going on summer early June.

by Jon Collins

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September 24, 2013 3:45 AM

Why UW-Madison has more cool-nerd points than the U of Minnesota

It’s Tuesday, it’s off season, and we just need our Game of Thrones fix. I also wish I’d heard university carillonneur Lyle Anderson‘s version of Star Wars and Harry Potter. (h/t blaster.com)

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September 24, 2013 2:57 AM

Notes in the Margins: iOS7 crashes, prepaid plans, and an anti-NRA tweet

Anti-NRA tweet leads to University of Kansas professor’s administrative leave After the Washington Navy Yards shooting, tenured associate professor David Guth lashed out, and then felt the backlash of the university, which rapidly distanced itself from his views. (New York Daily News via Education Dive) One less way to pay for college The prepaid college savings plan that Read more →

by Alex Friedrich

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September 23, 2013 9:41 PM

Mpls. teachers union asks to close contract talks

The union asked the Bureau of Mediation Services to close the negotiations to the public last week, although the district received formal notice of the request today.

by Jon Collins

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September 23, 2013 9:47 AM

How salaries of University of Minnesota’s leaders stack up

Here’s a University of Minnesota graph on how the salaries of its senior leaders — senior VPs, chancellors, deans and such — stack up against equivalents at other universities. It was apparently the first time senior leaders were included in the U’s annual report on employee compensation, which you can find at the bottom of Read more →

by Alex Friedrich

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