On the morning after the house party on Johnson Street, Jenna Foellmi and several other twentysomethings lay sprawled on the beds and couches. When a friend reached over to wake her, Foellmi was cold to the touch.
Ten fraternity members at Tulane University face criminal charges in an alleged hazing incident in which pledges were repeatedly burned with hot water, cayenne pepper and vinegar, police said.
About 100 people, including students majoring in homeland security and criminal justice, were arrested Tuesday in an undercover drug sting at San Diego State University, officials said.
The Hogan Knows Best star is denied admission at several Florida schools because of film crew
It already seems like history; it is amazing to think it has only been a year.
College students are faced with many challenges each day. It's tough to balance a job with hours of homework, and to pay attention in class while planning an escape route from a lecture hall seat.
Dear FSB: I have a product that I'm interested in marketing toward incoming college students. I would like to introduce them to my service before they show up to campus. How can I get the lists that contain addresses of incoming freshmen, or current students?
Black students on a university campus in central South Africa resumed their protests Tuesday against a racist video that showed white students tricking black workers into tasting stew laced with urine.
Columbia University said Thursday it has sanctioned for plagiarism the African-American professor on whose office door a noose was found last fall.
If a shooter came into some of the biggest classrooms at the University of California-Berkeley, recent graduate Scott Alto wonders whether students would be able to protect themselves.
On the morning after the house party on Johnson Street, Jenna Foellmi and several other twentysomethings lay sprawled on the beds and couches. When a friend reached over to wake her, Foellmi was cold to the touch.
Ten fraternity members at Tulane University face criminal charges in an alleged hazing incident in which pledges were repeatedly burned with hot water, cayenne pepper and vinegar, police said.
About 100 people, including students majoring in homeland security and criminal justice, were arrested Tuesday in an undercover drug sting at San Diego State University, officials said.
The Hogan Knows Best star is denied admission at several Florida schools because of film crew
It already seems like history; it is amazing to think it has only been a year.
College students are faced with many challenges each day. It's tough to balance a job with hours of homework, and to pay attention in class while planning an escape route from a lecture hall seat.
Dear FSB: I have a product that I'm interested in marketing toward incoming college students. I would like to introduce them to my service before they show up to campus. How can I get the lists that contain addresses of incoming freshmen, or current students?
Black students on a university campus in central South Africa resumed their protests Tuesday against a racist video that showed white students tricking black workers into tasting stew laced with urine.
Columbia University said Thursday it has sanctioned for plagiarism the African-American professor on whose office door a noose was found last fall.
If a shooter came into some of the biggest classrooms at the University of California-Berkeley, recent graduate Scott Alto wonders whether students would be able to protect themselves.
A professor in Oregon rallies students to pay attention to global warming. After all, it's their world we're messing with
Candra Pennington huddled in her dorm room at Union University with about 15 other young women Tuesday night as bad storms swept through western Tennessee.
Tornadoes that roared through parts of Arkansas, Kentucky and Tennessee killed at least 23 people and injured nearly 100 more Tuesday night, authorities said.
When 19-year-old Reid Overton wants to smoke a cigarette on his college campus, he has to walk to a distant parking lot and get into his car, but he doesn't seem to mind. "Even as a smoker, I don't like to walk past a cloud of smoke," he says.
At the University of South Carolina, the campus is quiet, but students were still heading to their classes after six students were killed in a beach house fire during the weekend.
Six of the seven college students killed in a massive house fire Sunday morning in Ocean Isle Beach, North Carolina, attended the University of South Carolina, a university official said Sunday.
A University of Memphis football player was shot and killed on campus Sunday night, prompting administration officials to cancel classes and plead for anyone with information to come forward.
Police searched areas of the University of Wisconsin-Madison on Tuesday evening for a suicidal man they said was trying to provoke a shootout
Two students were shot at Delaware State University early Friday and the campus was locked down as police searched for a gunman
This school year, many college students will break the tradition of buying their textbooks at college bookstores.
Like most incoming college freshman, 18-year-old Aleksandr Kazachkov cannot wait for the freedom and new friends, as well as the chance to prove that he can responsibly live on his own. But before he can officially call Cornell University in Ithaca, New York his home, he must complete an hour-long online alcohol prevention course.
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) -- South Carolina safety Emanuel Cook was arrested on a gun charge and suspended from the university Friday, making him ineligible to play for the Gamecocks.
An internal review of the actions Virginia Tech took in the hours after student Seung-Hui Cho's April shooting spree makes suggestions to boost security but assigns no blame for the deadliest school shooting in U.S. history.
Erin Sheehan is one of the almost 28,000 students making the bittersweet return to the Virginia Tech campus for fall classes, a journey she was afforded only because of some quick thinking in April.
In a new museum to commemorate last summer's "divine victory" over Israel, you can visit a replica of a front-line Hizballah bunker -- no blindfold required
College is a time for tremendous learning and personal growth. A time to make your own decisions and mistakes. Feel at home even when you're away. Nate Berkus shows you how to personalize and organize your dorm room -- without missing class!
As students return to the campus, a debate continues over how schools should handle students in distress
A U.S. judge Wednesday gave a group of former Harvard students two weeks to finalize and back up their claim that Facebook Inc.'s founder stole their ideas to create the fast-growing social networking Web site.
In the debut of Rhetoric Watch, two speechwriters find a familiar chord in a much-used Clinton anecdote
Are women really as interested in sports as men? And if not, is it the responsibility of a college or university to create that interest?
As more college presidents drop out of U.S. News' popular rankings, hundreds of schools are helping put together a consumer-friendly alternative
On the list of desirable sports jobs, "Vanderbilt baseball ticket scalper" has historically ranked pretty low, usually somewhere down around "Rick Majerus's personal trainer" and "Pete Rose's accountant." But last Friday the hawkers were out in front of Hawkins Field, where the Commodores were hosting an NCAA regional, asking $50 for a $10 ticket. Yes, these are heady days at Vandy, and not just because the baseball team -- which not long ago considered 200 people a good draw -- was pulling in SRO crowds of 3,500 over the weekend. Vanderbilt is enjoying unprecedented success in every sport, a run made all the more remarkable by the fact that four years ago it eliminated its athletic department.
Imagine that when you shopped online for a digital camera, you could see whether anyone you knew already owned it and ask them what they thought. Imagine that when you searched for a concert ticket you could learn if friends were headed to the same show. Or that you knew which sites - or what news stories - people you trust found useful and which they disliked. Or maybe you could find out where all your friends and relatives are, right now (at least those who want to be found).
On a Friday afternoon in March 2000, University of Pennsylvania freshman Alison Malmon came in from studying outdoors with friends, and her world crashed around her.
All five of the Delaware County Community College campuses in Pennsylvania remain closed on Monday, four days after an e-mail threatening unspecified violence was received by college faculty, college officials said.
A bell tolled every 22 seconds, silence lasted for 10 minutes and then a thousand balloons filled the sky Monday over the Virginia Tech campus as the university remembered the 32 victims of last Monday's shooting rampage.
Our country is in shock at the slaughter of 32 Virginia Tech students and teachers. Our national consciousness will be dominated for days by the senseless deaths and the wounding of dozens more on Virginia Tech's campus.
Officials at Virginia Tech said Monday that they thought the situation was under control during the hours between two shootings that claimed 33 lives.
This year it really pays to have a college degree.
A fire broke out at a fraternity house just off the campus of the University of Missouri at St. Louis, killing a person believed to be a student, a university spokesman said.
The classroom of the future isn't on a college campus. It's in the virtual world of "Second Life."
Facebook has been getting a lot of attention from Wall Street following reports of a possible deal with Yahoo, but some students say the site is old news.
Solar-powered showers, biometric root beer dispensers and waterless urinals. The dorms of the future are already here.
Laptop, iPod, a messenger bag and yes, a credit card - all the staples of modern college life. Nowadays, owning a piece of plastic has become as much as part of the college experience as griping about the dorm food.
Thursday night, we officially launched Fit Nation. We simply could not believe the response. The buzz in the room was palpable and you felt this tidal wave of anticipation from the students -- all anxious to get something done.
A controversy that has sparked violent demonstrations across the Middle East and Asia came to a U.S. college campus as a display of cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed drew about 200 protesters.
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As a professor at Northern Arizona University, Cathy Small was baffled by undergraduates. They seemed less engaged, less likely to do assigned reading and more likely to ask questions like "Do you want it double-spaced?"
The T-shirts said it all: "Forget Tommy. I (heart) his roommate."
Denim fashions may be all the rage this fall, but Erica Green cares more about dressing up her dorm room than dressing up herself. Green, an incoming junior at Goucher College in Baltimore, Maryland, plans to spend more than $500 on furnishings, from bright blue butterfly chairs and rugs to a TV-DVD combo unit.
Republicans and Democrats are paying increased attention to young voters this election season, as President Bush and Sen. Kerry continue to be virtually tied in many polls.
All of Duke's incoming freshmen received a free iPod as part of a technological experiment. Can Stanford top that?
College students favor Sen. John Kerry over President Bush in the upcoming election, according to a recent Harvard University poll.
Duke University will give Apple iPods to its incoming freshmen, with school officials saying the popular MP3 music players can be used for educational purposes as well as entertainment.
Analysts predict there will be relatively few swing voters in the presidential election this November.
Moving into the dorm on the first day of college is a notoriously trying affair. To furnish their new digs on student budgets, freshmen either brave the lines at the local Target or haul their must...
Opinion polls indicate more young voters plan to vote in the 2004 presidential election than did in the 2000 election, when only a half-million votes stood between Al Gore and George W. Bush.
College students favor Democratic presidential contender Sen. John Kerry over President Bush by a 10-point margin and have become substantially more dissatisfied with Bush over the past six months, according to a poll released Thursday.
"College Hill" is a new, all African-American reality series that chronicles the joys and pains of black college life through the eyes of eight students. The show airs Wednesday on BET.
The new film "The Butterfly Effect" premiered last week at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah. It got the same reaction there that it did at a private screening in Los Angeles two weeks ago -- laughter in all the wrong places.
Editor's note: As part of our coverage of the 2004 election season, CNN.com is sending correspondents to the colleges where they studied to report on issues affecting today's young voters. In this edition, Meriah Doty returns to her alma mater, University of California at Berkeley.
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