Campus Informer: ROTC at Yale?

This feature is called Campus Informer, a roundup of cool and interesting stuff happening on campus (and off) around the country.

• Yale University says that they'll reinstate the ROTC program as long as the military changes its policy on allowing openly gay men and women to serve in the military. [Yale Daily News]
• GW students marched to fight homelessness on the national mall this Saturday. [GW Hatchet]
• Twenty academic economists write to Congress about health care reform. [The Daily Princetonian]
• An investigation has launched into police conduct at the UC protests in Berkeley. [The Daily Californian]
• A former Texas A&M student is suing the school over bad academic advising. [The Battalion]

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Campus Informer: HBCUs May Merge, Spike Lee Tells Students to 'Do the Right Thing'

Campus Progress is bringing back a renewed version of a feature called Campus Informer, a roundup of cool and interesting stuff happening at campuses around the country. Of course, the feature isn't only limited to campuses, since Campus Progress exists for non-college youth and to make higher education more accessible and affordable. If you think something in your area should be included in Campus Informer, just email us at campusprogresseditors [at] americanprogress [dot] org.

• A plan to merge several historically black colleges and universities in Mississippi is drawing accusations of racism. [Clarion Ledger]
• Spike Lee tells Howard University students to 'do the right thing.' [The Hilltop]
• A Dartmouth masters of public health student dies from complications of H1N1. [The Dartmouth]
• Lots of people go home for Thanksgiving, but one NYU student chose to stay at school over the break. [Washington Square News]
• A doctor at Harvard treats transgender patients as a medical condition rather than a psychiatric one. [The Harvard Crimson]
• New media is playing a role in the UC protests. [The Daily Californian]

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Campus Informer: Direct Lending, Rhodes Scholars, and UND Debates the Fighting Sioux Nickname

Campus Progress is bringing back a renewed version of a feature called Campus Informer, a roundup of cool and interesting stuff happening at campuses around the country. Of course, the feature isn't only limited to campuses, since Campus Progress exists for non-college youth and to make higher education more accessible and affordable. If you think something in your area should be included in Campus Informer, just email us at campusprogresseditors [at] americanprogress [dot] org.

• Financial Aid administrators guess whether Congress will mandate direct lending. [Inside Higher Ed]
• A new study shows that religious activists and voters might be leaning left. [The Alligator]
• Rhodes scholars were announced and 32 Americans from 23 American colleges and universities made the cut. [The Chronicle]
• A pay equity study at Columbia University has taken more than three years and some say that's just too long. [Columbia Spectator]
• Members of the University of North Dakota's student senate debate weather to keep its Fighting Sioux nickname and logo. [Dakota Student]
• Former First Lady Barbara Bush is scheduled to speak at Texas A&M [The Battalion]

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Campus Informer: UC-Santa Cruz presents list of demands; U of MN Implements Blood Alcohol Tests on Game Day

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Campus Progress is bringing back a renewed version of a feature called Campus Informer, a roundup of cool and interesting stuff happening at campuses around the country. Of course, the feature isn't only limited to campuses, since Campus Progress exists for non-college youth and to make higher education more accessible and affordable. If you think something in your area should be included in Campus Informer, just email us at campusprogresseditors [at] americanprogress [dot] org.

• Students at University of California-Santa Cruz present a 32-point list of demands to UC regents. [Student Activism]
• The University of Minnesota implements blood alcohol tests at football games to try to curb binge drinking on game days. [New York Times]
  
• Conservative students at the University of Toledo held a "Freedom Week" earlier this month involving members of the university's ROTC program; it got messy. [Independent Collegian]
• Harvard debates allowing all students access to gender-neutral housing. [Harvard Crimson]
• A Howard University student takes a year off to pursue an acting career in L.A. [The Hilltop]
• Some students at Kent State work their way through college at a bakery (Video). [Kent News Net]

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Camups Informer: Prostests at NYU Against Anti-Muslim Sentiment, MIT Grad Students Push for Immigration Reform

Campus Progress is bringing back a renewed version of a feature called Campus Informer, a roundup of cool and interesting stuff happening at campuses around the country. Of course, the feature isn't only limited to campuses, since Campus Progress exists for non-college youth and to make higher education more accessible and affordable. If you think something in your area should be included in Campus Informer, just email us at campusprogresseditors [at] americanprogress [dot] org.

• The University of Montana is trying to help Native Americans fight Type 2 diabetes. [Montana Kaimin]
• MIT's graduate students are pushing for a tax exemption on stipends, more money for federally funded research, and higher caps on H1-B visas for advanced-degree holders. [The Tech]
• George Washington University has received its highest number of early decision applications ever. [GW Hatchet]
  
• NYU students protest a Forbes.com column that talked of "going Muslim." [Washington Square News]
• Texas A&M memorializes students who died in a bonfire 10 years ago. [USA Today]

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Campus Informer: Hip Hop with Hamburgers, Student Beer in Local Bars

Campus Progress is bringing back a renewed version of a feature called Campus Informer, a roundup of cool and interesting stuff happening at campuses around the country. Of course, the feature isn't only limited to campuses, since Campus Progress exists for non-college youth and to make higher education more accessible and affordable. If you think something in your area should be included in Campus Informer, just email us at campusprogresseditors [at] americanprogress [dot] org.

• SUNY wants to go Division I, but the process has been fraught with problems. [NY Times]
• Graduate teaching assistants went on strike at the University of Illinois over the protection of tuition waivers. [Inside Higher Ed]
• Spellman College has its first ever pride week. [The Maroon Tiger]
• A Vassar dining hall worker serves a little hip hop with the hamburgers. [The Miscellany News]
• University of Minnesota students brewed some beer; now you can buy it in local bars. [The Minnesota Daily]
• The growing number of students taking remedial courses is rising at the University of Maryland, along with skyrocketing costs. Now, regents are beginning to require a fourth year of math to apply. [The Diamondback]
• The University of Mississippi William Winter Institute for Racial Reconciliation takes its roundtable on race on the road. [The Daily Miss]
• Green idea: The University of Arizona installs solar panels over parking lots. [Arizona Daily Wildcat]
• New York Times journalist David Rohde talks about his time as a prisoner of the Taliban at Brown University [Brown Daily Herald]

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Campus Informer: Princeton's Male Cheerleader, a New 'Twilight' Class, and More

(Flickr/Joe Shlabotnik)

Campus Progress is bringing back a renewed version of a feature called Campus Informer, a roundup of cool and interesting stuff happening at campuses around the country. Of course, the feature isn't only limited to campuses, since Campus Progress exists for non-college youth and to make higher education more accessible and affordable. If you think something in your area should be included in Campus Informer, just email us at campusprogresseditors [at] americanprogress [dot] org.

• Trent Fuenmayor is Princeton's only male cheerleader, and says, "In high school, some people gave me crap, but no one’s going to be closed-minded in college." [The Daily Princetonian]
• The number of first-time international students have increased by nearly 16 percent, just as the cost of college is hitting an all-time high. [The Chronicle of Higher Education]
• As University of California schools are facing budget problems, out-of-state students are finding it hard to stay enrolled thanks to skyrocketing costs. [The Daily Bruin]
• It looks like student loan scandals aren't restricted to the United States. Ten executives at the Student Loan Company in the UK received nearly £2 million (more than $3.35 million) in bonuses as students are waiting for their loan and grant payments. [The Guardian]
• Indiana University will be offering a class on Twilight this spring. [Indiana Daily Student]
• The University of North Dakota creates the first graduate program in Sustainable Energy Engineering [The Dakota Student]
• The Oregon State University Students Alliance and the editor-in-chief of The Liberty at
  Portland State University are suing over the disappearance of seven distribution bins during the last school year. [The Daily Vanguard]
• Angry Asian Man, frequent contributor to Racialicious, shows his face on a panel at UT-Austin. [The Daily Texan]
• A student at Lehigh College discovered that her student health insurance plan doesn't cover birth control (although condoms are distributed for free on campus). [Change.org]
• A University of Florida graduate invented a new kind of condom; the new design makes condoms easier to put on. [The Alligator]

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