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• Tenn. bill could get guns on campus

  Liz Furlow - SFPA Member •April 3, 2011

  A new bill before the Tennessee state legislature would permit licensed college and state university employees to carry concealed guns onto college campuses.

• The Green Regulation Machine: Saving the planet or killing jobs?

  Katherine Miller - SFPA Editor •April 1, 2011

  Every time you regulate something like diesel particulates emitted by tractor trailers and buses, an angel loses its job and possibly tenure. Except, it's not a joke.

• How many college graduates does it take to fix the economy?

  Robby Soave - Assistant Editor •April 1, 2011

  College degrees are a product — an expensive, time-consuming product — with a remarkably high failure rate.

• American colleges support Japanese counterparts

  Adam Schwartzman - Dartmouth College •April 1, 2011

  American colleges and universities have come out in a full show of support for the Japan and its counterparts in higher education, in the wake of the devastating earthquakes and tsunami.

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  No charges for McGill ‘jihad’ tweets

  Amanda Seitz - Fix Contributor •April 1, 2011

  The Montreal Police Department will not press charges against the McGill University student who threatened to shoot everyone in a classroom via his Twitter page. "I want to shoot everyone in this room," he wrote. "I should have brought an M16."

• Israel's fight against terrorism — and the world's willful ignorance

  Alex Katz •March 31, 2011

  Alex Katz was in Israel during last week's terrorist attacks -- but, he argues, perhaps the most critical attacks on Israel come in the form of UN condemnations and denunciations from professors.