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Two Rhodes Scholars hail from Roseville
Rhodes Scholars Priya Sury (courtesy University of Minnesota) and Prerna Nadathur (courtesy University of Chicago) Thirty-two Rhodes Scholars are selected each year to represent the United States – and this year two of them are from Roseville (I’m no Rhodes Scholar, but my cell phone calculator tells me that’s 6.25 percent of the total.) They…
How to manage food allergies in college
I never realized how difficult life in college could be for someone with serious food allergies. So much of life is communal — a real problem for those who need to strictly control what they come in contact with. Here are two examples from USA Today‘s Managing a food allergy in college — expert advice:…
What Tommies think of early Xmas music
*L*u*z*A* via Flickr Straight from Thanksgiving into Christmas St. Thomas senior finance major Ali Davis on the early surge of Christmas music: “I actually started listening to it two weeks ago,” she said. She usually starts listening to Christmas music after Halloween. First it was early Thanksgiving in the cafeteria. Now it’s this. Man, some…
Taking a day off after the presidential search, but I’ve saved up a few goodies for you, which will appear throughout the day. See you tomorrow.
Students brainstorm to build a better Macalester About thirty-five students gathered in Weyerhaeuser on Wednesday evening with a simple goal in mind: to build a better Macalester. (themacweekly.com) Should MIT Teach Poetry? This past week, graduate student Emily Ruppel wrote an editorial for the MIT newspaper The Tech that offered a formula even a poet…
Just a little follow-up to yesterday’s news about St. Cloud State students approving a $1.74-per-credit fee increase to save Husky football and other sports. So it looks like the average full-time student taking 12 credit hours will pay almost $21 per semester extra for the next three years — about a 7.5 percent increase to…
In case you missed it, Tim Post did his own wrap-up of yesterday’s appointment of Eric Kaler as University of Minnesota president, and revealed some of Kaler’s views on running the U: “We’re not going to slash and burn,” Kaler said. “But we are going to look critically at best practices from higher education operations…
I’m working on a radio piece — just writing the text and editing the audio — so you won’t see as much out of me today. Enjoy your Friday — but please do check in from time to time.
The Daily Pennsylvanian student paper recalls several goofy University of Pennsylvania applicants who stand out in the minds of interviewers — for all the wrong reasons: … 1984 College graduate Betsy Levine remembers one interviewee who ended an hour-and-a-half meeting by saying, “I can’t believe you’re ending the interview — the guy from Princeton spent…
Four Loko ban fuels buying binge While federal officials announced plans this week to outlaw alcoholic energy drinks like Four Loko, five 20-somethings living in a Columbia Heights group house hatched a plan of their own: Anytime someone sees Four Loko for sale, buy as much as possible. (The Washington Post) Enrollment in Online Courses…