A researcher from duke university, Tim Tyson, was arrested and charged with second degree trespassing according to wral.com for his actions of a Wake County Board of Education meeting Tuesday night.
Tyson was one of four people charged with second-degree trespassing after they interrupted the board’s meeting, locked arms and sang songs.
Rev. William Barber, president of [...]

(Daily 49er) In the past week, psychology professor Kevin MacDonald had his class interrupted by an organization claiming his views and recent involvement in political organization the American Third Option party are seen as racist and anti-Semitic.
MacDonald, a tenured professor at Cal State Long Beach, has been making headlines on the matter since he was [...]

(Startribune) If grades make you a long shot for college, you’re much more likely to get a break if you can play ball.
An Associated Press review of admissions data submitted to the NCAA by most of the 120 schools in college football’s top tier shows that athletes enjoy strikingly better odds of having admission requirements bent [...]

(AP) Police on Friday arrested 65 protesters inside a classroom building that was partially taken over for several days at the University of California, Berkeley.
Students occupied areas of Wheeler Hall as part of a demonstration against state funding cuts that have led to course cutbacks, faculty furloughs and sharp fee increases.

(Theindependent) Hastings College Alliance will host a screening and discussion of “What Becomes You,” a documentary film by Hastings College professors David Lovekin, professor of philosophy and chair of the department; and Jim Fritzler, professor of theatre arts, at 7 p.m. Thursday in the French Memorial Chapel. Refreshments will be served. The event is free [...]

(NPR) Students at Lincoln University in Pennsylvania are upset about a school rule requiring overweight students to take an exercise course in order to graduate. The rule applies to students with a body mass index above 30. James DeBoy, chair of the Department of Health, Physical Education and Recreation at Lincoln University, says the school [...]

(BGviews) President Barack Obama’s slipping national approval rating has not resulted in negative esteem amongst surveyed University students.
According to Pollster.com, a Web site containing information related to various polls across the nation, the most recent Gallup poll places Obama’s approval rating at 53 percent nationally. This is a 14 percent slide from their first post-inauguration [...]

(Newkerala) A new study has revealed that coed dorms, which are more fun than same-sex dorm, can fuel unhealthy behaviour, sex and binge drinking.
The study found that university students in coed housing are 2.5 times more likely to binge drink every week, and that they are also likely to have more sexual partners, and use [...]

(Newsobserver) At Duke University, a school that likes to tout its cutting-edge research, a sex toy study being conducted by a behavioral economist and student health workers has roused criticism.
For much of October, researchers recruited female Duke students to take part in a “sexually explicit” study on Tupperware-style parties in which sex toys, not kitchenware, [...]

(Salon) Officials say dozens of people occupying a campus building at the University of California, Berkeley, in a protest over fee hikes and budget cuts have been arrested.
UC Berkeley spokesman Dan Mogulof told KGO-TV late Friday afternoon more than 40 people, at least some of them students, had been arrested and the protest appeared to [...]