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100 Awesome Ivy League Video Lectures

Even if you can't attend an Ivy League college, you can still take advantage of the intellectual and professional resources... more

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Bikes From 2008 DNC Donated to Colorado U Boulder : TreeHugger

The DNC said it would donate all of the bikes from the conference and it looks like it's gong through with it. ... more

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Does a University degree really set you up for life?

The usual opinion has been the same for generations: get a good degree and you're set for life. But is that still true in... more

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Students Protest the passing of Prop 8

Students at Stanford University block a bike intersection in protest of the ban on gay marriage. Stand up and protest. It's... more

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Extreme Nationalists Versus Nihilists In China

An interesting look at the 'extreme nationalists' and'extreme nihilists' (pro-China and anti-China) groups... more

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150,000 Graduates Descend on Chinese Job Fair

150,000 recent graduates crowded into the Shenzhen Convention Center in China’s Guangdong Province today to compete for the... more

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Teach The People Launches The Next Iteration of Education

Teach The People, a Facebook application and fbFund finalist that allows users to create learning communities, has launched to the... more

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Nearly half of Cambridge students admit to plagiarising

A student newspaper at the University of Cambridge has carried out a poll in which almost half of students admitted to plagiarism.... more

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University car bomb injures 17

A CAR bomb exploded yesterday in a campus parking lot at a university in northern Spain, wounding 17, in an attack officials said... more

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Drunk student attempts Italian Job stunt in his brand new Mini Cooper, fails

Brand new Mini Cooper from Mummy and Daddy, check. Copious amounts of alcohol, check. An insatiable urge to recreate a scene from... more

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Saudi to create largest women-only university

RIYADH: Plans to create the world largest university for women only - set to be completed in Riyadh in 2010 - are due to take a... more

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Abortion adverts in college?

A Chinese hospital has distributed makeup mirrors bearing medical ads to a local university, which included the ad... more

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No Mom Left Behind

This is a site created by some brilliant college students at Virginia Commonwealth University to help new voters reach out to... more

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Dido takes music classes

During the course of making her new album, singer Dido took music classes in LA. She said other students in the class did not... more

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Campus Shooting Two Dead

It was revealed on Sunday by the spokesman of the Conway Regional Medical Center, that two persons are killed in the recent campus... more

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Shooting At Arkansas University, 2 Dead, 1 Wounded

An early morning shooting at the University of Central Arkansas has killed two students and wounded a third person, authorities... more

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Student grants and university places may be frozen after botched costing

Grants and university places for students in the UK may be frozen following drastic errors in funding calculations made by the... more

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First: USC to offer degrees in Pop Music

The University of Southern California (USC) has announced that it will be the first major US university to offer a bachelor's... more

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China Digital Times » Japanese and Chinese Students Fight in Shanghai

Shanghai International Studies University saw violent clashes this week between Chinese and Japanese students, who had to be dispersed by police. Looking at the report, it's scary how such a small fight between some university students could escalate into so much violence and nationalist sentiments. The translated report, from CDT, is below:

"On October 20, 2008, about 10 P.M., over ten Japanese students were getting drunk and causing a disturbance in the school square. Their noise could be heard from every corner of the campus, which made the boys living on the 9th floor of the boy’s dormitory extremely upset. To protest against the Japanese, the 9th floor students sprinkled some water on the Japanese, resulting in the ten Japanese directly charging into the dorm to beat the two boys so severely that they had to be sent to the hospital.

After the beating, the 10 Japanese immediately fled the dorm room, and the students who heard the news immediately rushed downstairs to confront the Japanese students. At the time, the situation was chaotic. The police immediately dispatched special police to escort and evacuate over 10 Japanese from the school. Not only was the square swarming with patriotic students, I estimate there were approximately several hundred people. Over 10 police vehicles came one by one to maintain order, with everyone standing around watching each other for about 20 minutes.

Under the direction of several students, the students sang the national anthem, marching to the international guest house [the dormitory for international/foreign/study abroad students] to continue their protest against Japanese people. However, the police blocked off the entrance to the international guest house. At this time, we could see Koreans also hanging up their Korean flag. As the student protests increased, there were some foreigners upstairs in the international guest house (it was too dark to see clearly) throwing glass bottles down, causing the situation to escalate…only after the person in charge of the school immediately put forward that the first three students who knew what happened come forth and communicate with the Japanese did the university students calm down and behave themselves.

An angry crowd forms after a group of Japanese students allegedly attacked two Chinese students at Shanghai International Studies University.

An angry crowd forms after a group of Japanese students allegedly attacked two Chinese students at Shanghai International Studies University."

China’s Internet censors have so far cracked down hard on discussion of the incident.Shanghai International Studies University saw violent clashes this week between Chinese and Japanese students, who had to be... more