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Colleges see more foreign students
A year after the Sept 11 attacks, universities in Kansas continue to see more foreign students on their campuses. The numbers are steadily increasing at Wichita State University, where 1,509 international students enrolled this fall, said Joe Kleinsasser, university spokesman.
BY JULIE MAH / The Wichita Eagle
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UC Santa Barbara practice informs parents of student's alcohol arrest
Officials at UC Santa Barbara have launched a new program to reduce the number of student drinkers, and they are enlisting the help of mom and dad. While students may have been able to keep secret an arrest for public intoxication in years past, university officials now have made that impossible.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
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ST. PAUL: Macalester wants to give windmill a spin
A windmill may be twirling on the skyline of Macalester College next spring. On Tuesday, a community council committee will consider the St. Paul college's plan to install a power-generating wind turbine near Macalester Street, just north of the school's football field. The three-bladed turbine, about 100 feet tall, would be visible from Snelling and St. Clair avenues.
BY THERESA MONSOUR / Pioneer Press
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College kids' return for holidays can be happy if everyone's prepared
College students headed home for the holidays probably don't want to hear about curfews, dinner manners and getting up early in the mornings. Conversely, parents probably don't want to hear "I'm an adult now," "I can do what I want" and "I want to go out with my friends."
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Shivering students receive a lesson in homelessness
St. Mary's College juniors Julie Levie and Mary Vue usually sleep in dorm rooms on the Moraga campus, but for one day this week, "home" was a pile of blankets in the mock homeless encampment encircling the bronze St. John Baptist de la Salle statue on campus.
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OSU reeling after night of `mayhem'
The streets were black from fire. A red bucket sat in a tree. Charred remnants of furniture, tree limbs and cars were scattered about. Smashed beer bottles and cans cluttered tree lawns.
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Penn grad students one step closer to union vote
Graduate students at the University of Pennsylvania won a major legal victory yesterday when a labor-relations director ruled that they qualify as employees under law and therefore have the right to unionize and bargain over wages and benefits.
By James M. O'Neill / Inquirer Staff Writer
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