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what the Harvard Crimson dubs the “freshman kindness pledge” remains in place. The vast majority of freshmen, and the college itself, have formally declared that “the exercise of kindness” is “on par with intellectual attainment.” Both parts of that equation are odd, and they are odd in ways that suggest something has gone awry at Harvard.
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A high school senior today would have been six or seven years old when the Twin Towers fell. And for many younger students, the event is only a distant memory.
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A security firm hired by an Australian university has found vulnerabilities in Blackboard Learn, the popular course-management software, the Australian computer-security publication SC Magazine reported on Friday.
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Paul Kagame, president of Rwanda, came to Pittsburgh Friday to officially announce that Carnegie Mellon University would open a branch campus in his country, where it will offer a master of science in information technology.
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Four student religious organizations at Vanderbilt University may be in jeopardy following a review by the school's administration that takes issue with the groups requiring their leaders share the groups' core religious beliefs.
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Student loan default rates on are on the rise, according to data released by the U.S. Department of Education earlier this week.