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On Campus Blog

How safe do Minnesotans feel at frat parties?

In light of this fall’s sexual assault cases at three University of Minnesota fraternities, I recently I asked members of our Public Insight Network about how safe they felt at fraternity parties — and how comfortable they would be if a young family member attended. It’s not a scientific survey, of course. But here’s the…
by Alex Friedrich

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Notes in the Margins: Sex columns, veterans and reach schools

Should You Apply to a Reach School? I happen to believe that applying to reach schools, with some exceptions, is risky. Here’s why: Colleges and universities possess a finite amount of money for financial aid. Most schools can’t give handsome financial aid or merit aid to all the members of their incoming freshman class. (google.com)…
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Death of a St. Mary's University ghost story

Death of a St. Mary's University ghost story

I’ve been set to post a Huffington Post list of haunted campuses, which included St. Mary’s University of Minnesota and its Heffron Hall. (Still on that Halloween groove.) The Post makes it sound juicy: In 1915, Bishop Patrick Heffron was shot to death in a chapel on St. Mary’s campus by a bitter Father Lesches,…
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Two reasons why more students don't vote

Is the hassle to register and vote a whiny gripe among lazy students — or are they actually onto something? The Minnesota Daily has two pieces about student complaints with the current election: 1) Documentation requirements. The documents needed to register are too restrictive for many students and the rules behind them are a bit…
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Video: Lake Superior College's quirky ads

Video: Lake Superior College's quirky ads

As I reported recently, Minnesota West Community & Technical College student leader Ryan Lubke complained about the overall low quality of community college commercials. That’s a potential problem, now that the two-year institutions face stiff competition from heavily marketed for-profits. I just ran into these two ads by Lake Superior College. I don’t know how…
by Alex Friedrich

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Where students can go for laughs in Mankato

“You will definitely not leave that place without laughing. Or else you will be horribly offended.” — Maverick Comedy Club Treasurer Joshua Erhardt on Monday open mic nights at the Minnesota State University Mankato student club, which was started this year by senior Christian Hagen, the student paper reports.
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Mankato's campus preacher debate

Minnesota State University Mankato associate professor James P. Dimock in Inside Higher Ed praises students who opposed an anti-gay visiting preacher by walking into his service and holding up signs with names and photos of gay youth who have killed themselves this year after bullying incidents. “The answer to speech you don’t like isn’t to…
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Notes in the Margins: Four Loko, endowments and biofuel

To Protect Academic Freedom, Look Beyond the First Amendment Faculty academic freedom has always been more firmly rooted in professional norms than in legal decisions. (chronicle.com) For Exposure, Universities Put Courses on the Web Until recently, if you wanted to take Professor Rebecca Henderson’s course in advanced business strategy, you needed to be a student…
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How some colleges are like high school divas

Lynn O’Shaughnessey explains why schools such as Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute that send out flattering mail and applications to random students are just shameless flirts who have no real interest: Getting love notes from a school … doesn’t not mean that a student will get in. Many colleges and universities send out flattering letters and/or applications…
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What a Republican victory might mean for higher ed

So what happens if Republicans take over the Congress? Both the Chronicle of Higher Education and Inside Higher Ed have pieces on potential changes. In the Chronicle‘s podcast, journalists look at the backgrounds of the people who would be coming into (and out of) power in politics’ higher education scene. Here are my notes: House…
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