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Money Science = Ethics Problems on Campus (Higher Education, Society)

The third most dispensed drug in the United States is a thyroid medication called Synthroid.

David Shenk
Affirmative Racism (Racism and Discrimination, Higher Education, Society)

Students across the country are gearing up to defend affirmative action on a national day of protest on February 24.

Laura Flanders

Blogs

Six Ways to Green Your Spring Break
StudentNation

Spring break tips for those who want to relieve their stress without stressing out the planet.

March 31, 2011
Wisconsin's Cronon Affair: The Power of a Simple Fact
The Notion

Why are the Republicans going after a history professor who calls himself a “centrist”?

March 28, 2011
Wisconsin GOP Seeks to Silence a Distinguished Dissenter. McCarthyism is Back.
John Nichols

When Bill Cronon, a University of Wisconsin professor, started raising questions about whether Governor Scott Walker’s attacks on labor unions might have been organized by powerful out-of-state interests, the state Republican party went after him in a classic assault on academic freedom.

March 25, 2011
Journalism Under Siege at Northwestern
The Notion

The suspension of a star professor raises very disturbing question about the future of one of the country’s foremost journalism schools.

March 23, 2011
FIRE, Alexandra Wallace, and Defending Offensive Speech
StudentNation

The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education inappropriately editorializes a racist video posted by a UCLA student.

March 17, 2011
College Seniors Face Lack of Entry-Level Jobs
StudentNation

As those laid off during the recession continue to apply for entry-level positions, college seniors are facing more competition than expected.

March 14, 2011
The 'Badger Advocates': Corporate Advocates, Not UW-Madison Advocates
StudentNation

At the University of Wisconsin-Madison a group of corporate lobbyist will be working to turn the university into a quasi-private "public authority" institution. Other states that have gone down this road have seen tuition skyrocket. 

March 8, 2011
Updates On Last Week's Occupations at Dickinson, Milwaukee, Berkeley
StudentNation

Last week’s March 2 National Day of Action saw scores of protests in more than a dozen states—including two that ended in arrests and one that ended with a bunch of people taking their clothes off.

March 7, 2011
Pennsylvania Students Protests Against Sexual Violence and Administrators Respond
StudentNation

Students at Dickinson College refused to leave their campus administrative offices until the officials met their demands to change the campus's sexual assault policy. And their demands were met.

March 4, 2011
A Vote to Cut Grants to Low-Income Students Provokes a National Day of Action
StudentNation

The United States Student Association is organizing nationwide resistence to a House vote to cut the Pell Grant and TRIO programs.

March 2, 2011
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