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Florida A&M U Death: Vigilance Key To Changing Culture Of Hazing, Experts Say

The beating death of Florida A&M University drum major Robert Champion is forcing school administrators to take a hard look at how they deal with the culture of hazing, especially among the famed Marching 100 band.

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Sun Sentinel

LSU Streams Fitness Videos and Healthy Lifestyle Tips Online Via Mediasite

Fitness webcasts delivered via Mediasite by Sonic Foundry, Inc. (Nasdaq: SOFO), can help you work off those holiday calories and get back in shape for 2012.

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Sonic Foundry

Florida Colleges Ban Smoking

If you smoke, you may be breathing less easily on college campuses these days.

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Source: 
The Miami Herald

Student Sent To Rehab In Columbia Univ. Drug Case

A Columbia University student who sold marijuana as part of a campus drug-dealing ring has begun a year of drug treatment that could get his charges dismissed, becoming a prominent example of a rehabilitation option expanded by a recent change to New York’s drug laws.

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AP via The Boston Globe

Students With Painful Past Find A Fresh Start At Western Michigan University

WMU runs the largest Michigan program for former foster kids attending college, allowing them to stay in dorms over holiday breaks. This winter break, about 40 students are on campus.

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Detroit Free Press

The Hour When the Ship Comes In

End Note
A president’s tale of displaced students—and how administrators found them a home on the water
Joseph R. Urgo
University Business, Jan 2012

I’ve had a soundtrack to the events recounted here running through my mind: “Oh the time will come up / When the winds will stop / And the breeze will cease to be breathin’ / Like the stillness in the wind / ‘Fore the hurricane begins / The hour when the ship comes in…”

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Student Wellness
Business Intelligence

Colleges And Suicide Threats: When To Call Home?

The email that arrived at Virginia Tech's health center in November 2007 was detailed and unmistakably ominous. It concerned a Tech senior named Daniel Kim and came from an acquaintance at another college.

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Source: 
AP via The Virginia-Pilot

Occupy Higher Ed

Behind the News
Movement spreads from Wall Street to the campus green
Kristen Domonell
University Business, Jan 2012

The Occupy movement that has swept the nation—and the world—also has a home at many colleges and universities. Long associated with protests, and historically touted as the home of open discourse, American colleges and universities have had a difficult balancing act on their hands: how to promote free speech while maintaining safety on campus.

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Safety
Student Wellness

CU-Boulder Signs Fair Food Statement

University also trying to bring more organic, natural food to campus

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Source: 
Boulder Daily Camera

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