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  • Hayakawa's Confrontation With Student Protesters
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    In the meantime at San Francisco State College, students in the Third World Liberation Front (TWL F), a coalition of African-American, Latino, and Asian-American student groups, began demanding reforms that addressed the concerns of students of color and the surrounding community. After more than a year of negotiating with the school and organizing students, they called a strike on November 6, 1968, that became the longest student strike in United States history. When it was finally settled in M...
  • Residence Hall Security
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    Security in dorm halls on universities across the nation is a huge problem that each campus must address, due to the amount of people living in such close quarters. Residence hall security should be an important factor in the college decision making process. Today's college freshman arrives for the first day of his / her college career hampered with personal property of substantial value. Most students come to college equipped with an advanced computer system and can be the target of burglary. M...
  • Risk For Bacterial Meningitis
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    "She thought it was just the flu. We all did. But she didn't seem to be getting any better. Her parents made her go see a doctor, which was a good thing. It turns out she didn't have the flu. It was something much worse. Something more dangerous, something more contagious, something life-threatening, something scary", said my friend Ashley. I was on the phone with her talking about her roommate at Elizabethtown College. It turns out that her roommate, Jocelyn has been diagnosed with Meningitis. ...
  • Degrees The College Offers
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    On the Outlook for Colleges In only two short years Arcadia's class of 2004 will be leaving the nest and moving on to bigger and better things. Many of us are busy with the research of colleges that go heavy on the education but easy on the pocketbook. There are so many colleges out there that make a person want to attend just because of the party life they provide. Sure everybody is ready to go to one of the wild and crazy college parties that we " ve all seen on television, but is that really ...
  • Sources Of Stress Among College Students
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    Stress Among College Students Leaving home for the first time and going away for school can be very difficult for some people. In many cases for college freshman this is their first time being away from their home and parents. Many times they get home sick and want to isolate themselves. They have to get into a new routine of going to school, and change can be very difficult. It is definitely hard to get into the swing of college. They have to navigate through classes in a new format while livin...
  • Students Performances Through Remedial Classes
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    The Americans! | perspective towards education has a similar pattern with the rest of the world. Buy a bigger house, drive sports-utility vehicles and have elaborate vacations are some sort of possibilities if one can get the most out of college education. Except for those who are born rich, attending college seems to be the common gateway towards financial stability; the ability to afford better living with full control on expenditure and investment opportunities. If the are foreseeable by the ...
  • Drug On College Campuses Alcohol
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    In our society, there are many obstacles that face students who are trying to obtain a college education. First, the student has to do well in high school, pass the S.A.T. 's, and be able to afford to pay for a college education. For those who can't afford to pay for college there is Financial Aid. But what if financial aid was taken away from students based solely on one minor drug offense? I will address several reasons why I believe the Souder Amendment is unethical and why it should be repea...
  • Students Contract Aids
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    Should College Students Be Tested For Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome? Today, Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome is a horrifying epidemic that is grasping our younger adults. If more college students knew more about the exact effect of AIDS, then it wouldn't be a huge epidemic as is now. College students need to be tested for AIDS so that they can inform other people of the opposite sex of the sexual background so that they don't pass the deadly disease to them. Today with many of the colle...
  • 35 Percent Of White Open Admissions Students
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    Konovalova Veronica Poems of protest In a poem Theme for English B, black student worries about an essay that he has to write for his English class in College. According to the description of the place of the school, I can assume that the school that he goes to is Columbia University, a very highly competitive school with very high standards. He is talking about being the only black student in his class and how it feels to be different from other people. The poem had been written in 1951 when ge...
  • Changes From High School To College
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    Dealing with the Changes Between High School and College What are those things that one takes for granted while living at home and attending high school What changes will you face upon entering college When preparing for college, everyone thinks that it is easy just like high school. What they forget about is the fact that when you go to college and you re away from home, family, and friends, you must do everything on your own. I was a na ve young adult who was going to attend college for the fi...
  • Ethical Values Amongst College Students
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    Honesty, promise keeping, free expression, and nonviolence, words written by Derek Bok, explaining his opinion on why it is important to teach basic moral values on the college level. It is quite evident that the teaching of ethics has been a controversial subject, but by no means does that allow it to go unheard. "Colleges and universities should be well aware of the moral messages contained in the countless institutional signals sent to students". (500) Derek Bok uses a plethora of sub-topics ...
  • Target Locations Of The Students
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    Table of Contents Introduction 2 Scope of the Study 3 Methods Used 3 Results 5 Age 5 Time of Day 6 Location 8 Recommendations 10 Target Format 10 Target Location 11 Bibliography 12 Appendix 13 Introduction Music is a general love of almost every college student. Many develop their personalities, profiles, and various other tastes based on their listening choices. In general, many college students acquire the same spectrum of listening values. If a radio station, one that wishes to target the col...
  • Senior Year For A Student
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    It's 8: 20 am; the late bell has rung signaling to all that students should be seated in class and ready to learn. Students can be seen slamming their lockers and sprinting to their next class with fear of a detention slip for being late. But lingering in the hallways is an imaginary disease embedded only in the senior class. The symptoms are well recognized by the faculty; tardiness, little to no work completed in class, turning in assignments late, and an overall lethargic attitude rapidly spr...
  • Growing Number Of Students On College Campuses
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    A growing number of students on college campuses are taking their life in their own hands each time they consume large quantities of alcohol in a short period of time. This popular method of drinking, called binge drinking, is a social stigma passed down from past generations. Students consider binge drinking a recreational way of life that is renin forced with alcoholic beverage 'hangouts' located near college campuses. The fraternity and sorority houses are known for their wild parties. The pe...
  • College Students
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    In her article College Is a Waste of Time and Money, Caroline Bird attempts to pursued her readers that colleges are overflowing with students who don t belong there. Her article first appeared in Psychology Today (May 1975). Since this material is outdated, I find it hard to believe that most of the responses by students and parents quoted in the article still hold true. The author has set out to pursue the readers that college is a bad and unnecessary choice for today's youth. Yet the author h...
  • Story About College Leaving From Home
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    A Story about College Leaving from home and exploring ones own dreams are a very important part of maturing. Though, the physical separation from home is for some a difficult transition to college life. What are those things one takes for granted while living at home, and attending high school What changes does one face upon entering college Just think of all the times the alarm clock did not go off, and mom was there to make sure school was still reached on time. When the alarm clock fails to g...
  • College Students With Anorexia
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    Final Paper April 30th 2003 Topic: Anorexia Nervosa and the college student It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power. -Alan Cohen Each year, Anorexia Nervosa continues to rise among college students. High stress levels brought on from academics, peer pressure and insecuriti...
  • Safe An Environment With Alcohol On Campus
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    With dismaying regularity, news reports detail the excesses, and the deaths, of vibrant college students, their promise and their talent compromised or extinguished. For university "caretakers"- from the president to the student affairs office, to the faculty- alcohol abuse by students prompts sadness, anger, sometimes defeat, and often frustration (Issues pg. 1). Some 83% of the students in the most recent, Core Alcohol and Drug Survey said they drank, and 43% reported some form of violence (ar...
  • Leading Cause Of Death Among College Students
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    Picture a typical, hard-working student. Each day she recieves multiple assignments to complete for homework. She is involved in several extracurricular activities so she doesn t have much extra time. After sports practice, she struggles home, laden with books, to begin studying. On atypical evening she has to work diligently for a couple of hours to complete her homework for school the next day. She has a rigorous schedule that includes honors and advanced placement classes so some nights she i...
  • One's College Life
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    Going to College as a Freshmen When selecting a college that is right for you, there are many decisions one must make. For many first time students, attending college can be severely mind boggling and frustrating, though at the same time can be an enjoyable experience. Going to college and making the right decisions are often extremely difficult for freshmen. Many students coming out of high school are accustomed to having everything done for them, so the first year in college is usually a "Real...

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