About 70 students at UC Santa Cruz in California avoided arrest early Sunday morning when they surrendered the administration building they had occupied for three days, according to a school spokesman.
Demonstrators entered their third day of a building takeover at UC Santa Cruz on Saturday in protest of a tuition increase, an undertaking that a school spokesman called futile.
Protesters of a tuition hike at University of California campuses stood their ground into Friday night, with 41 demonstrators at UC Berkeley cited for trespassing after their takeover of a campus building.
Angry students at the Davis, California, branch of the University of California refused to vacate the school's administration building Thursday evening in a show of defiance and protest over a 32-percent undergraduate tuition hike instituted by the California Board of Regents earlier in the day.
Amid student protests, the University of California's Board of Regents finance committee approved a 32 percent hike in undergraduate tuition fees Wednesday, to take effect on two steps over the next year.
Many Americans love living in university towns, especially ones with big-time college football teams. One of the surprising attractions of these places is that they can be very affordable.
The next time you see a motorist obliviously straddling two lanes, don't fault bad driving, but genetics.
The unique qualities of the world's largest particle collider mean that the meltdown of a small electrical connection could delay its groundbreaking research until next year
For the second consecutive year, SAT scores for the most recent high school graduating class remained at the lowest level in nearly a decade
Teachers and textbooks beware -- your future could be under threat from a quickly developing and very smart technology.
About 70 students at UC Santa Cruz in California avoided arrest early Sunday morning when they surrendered the administration building they had occupied for three days, according to a school spokesman.
Demonstrators entered their third day of a building takeover at UC Santa Cruz on Saturday in protest of a tuition increase, an undertaking that a school spokesman called futile.
Protesters of a tuition hike at University of California campuses stood their ground into Friday night, with 41 demonstrators at UC Berkeley cited for trespassing after their takeover of a campus building.
Angry students at the Davis, California, branch of the University of California refused to vacate the school's administration building Thursday evening in a show of defiance and protest over a 32-percent undergraduate tuition hike instituted by the California Board of Regents earlier in the day.
Amid student protests, the University of California's Board of Regents finance committee approved a 32 percent hike in undergraduate tuition fees Wednesday, to take effect on two steps over the next year.
Many Americans love living in university towns, especially ones with big-time college football teams. One of the surprising attractions of these places is that they can be very affordable.
The next time you see a motorist obliviously straddling two lanes, don't fault bad driving, but genetics.
The unique qualities of the world's largest particle collider mean that the meltdown of a small electrical connection could delay its groundbreaking research until next year
For the second consecutive year, SAT scores for the most recent high school graduating class remained at the lowest level in nearly a decade
Teachers and textbooks beware -- your future could be under threat from a quickly developing and very smart technology.
Research shows that gay men's brains resemble those of straight women
Jen Wang of Short Hills, New Jersey, took her first SAT when she was in sixth grade, long before she would start filling out college applications.
Here are some facts from the broadcast that you might find interesting: Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, on vetoing the California Dream Act, which would have allowed illegal alien college students to receive financial aid. To the Members of the California State Senate: I am returning Senate Bill 1 without my signature. At a time when segments of California public higher education, the University of California and the California State University, are raising fees on all students attending college in order to maintain the quality of education provided, it would not be prudent to place additional strain on the General Fund to accord the new benefit of providing state subsidized financial aid to students without lawful immigration status. Under existing law, undocumented students, who meet the required criteria, already qualify for the lower in-state tuition rate while attending California public colleges and universities. Therefore, I cannot sign this bill. Sincerely,
The term "urban farming" may conjure up a community garden where locals grow a few heads of lettuce. But some academics envision something quite different for the increasingly hungry world of the 21st century: a vertical farm that will do for agriculture what the skyscraper did for office space.
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.
The mental scars of war are often far more debilitating than the many physical injuries that servicemen and women pick up during combat. But a new virtual war simulation may help veterans recover from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
Climbing up walls like Spider-Man might not just be the stuff of comic books if a new material continues its successful development.
LH: Lorraine Hahn PC: Peter Chan
Weather that originates at the sun, not here on Earth, is responsible for radio waves that cause an unusual shape of two belts of radiation that encircle Earth and contain "killer electrons" that can damage satellites and pose a risk to space travelers, scientists report.
The U.S. is currently paying out more to foreign lenders than it is receiving for the first time in at least 90 years, which could weigh on the dollar and force Americans to work even harder, according to a report published Monday.
My wife and I are 32 years old and contribute 15 percent of our combined income to our retirement savings plans at work. We have about $150,000 in those plans. I've also invested about $7,500 in stocks through an online broker and have earned about 35 percent on my picks over the past 14 months. I feel comfortable with what I am doing in the stock market and plan to invest about $5,000 a year this way. Do you think I should continue picking stocks on my own?
Physical exercise could help keep the brain alert and fully functioning as the body ages, new research has suggested, while a newly developed training program has shown regular mental exertion is just as important.
You save by buying prescriptions and contacts via the Internet. You can now trade stocks for just $10. You purchase airline seats, rent cars, and book hotel rooms for free on the Web.
Unclassified maggot, your days are numbered.
J.P. Morgan's agreement to pay $2.2 billion to settle a lawsuit by Enron investors brings the money coming to the fallen energy company's shareholders and their lawyers to nearly $4.7 billion.
What is billed as the world's largest permanent indoor sculpture has opened to the public at the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain.
Lost in the fray of the public debate over Terri Schiavo, steroids and Social Security, a political revolution may be quietly taking hold this year, far away from the halls of Capitol Hill.
The dealership was open, but you couldn't tell.
Sandra Alcazar stitches pigs' feet in a small, oblong classroom on Stanford University's campus in Palo Alto, California.
Will one statin a day keep the doctor away? That's the question Americans and their doctors are asking as medical research suggests the drugs do far more than lower cholesterol. The buzz started ...
An investigation of security violations is under way at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, including the latest reports of employees sending classified information over a non-secure e-mail system, a lab spokesman said Monday.
There's full disclosure, partial disclosure, and the disclosure some venture capital firms are seeking: none.
"There is a rich queerness to the U.S. scene in this summer of 1946.... Like a surrealist landscape, it is brilliant, gaudy, carefully drawn, and yet somehow nightmarish, distorted, and spotted wit...
It's not the type of investing you should try at home, but Yale University has managed what few other schools have.
When it comes to investing your money, do you have a "no guts, no glory" mind-set? Do you figure that if you take risks and tough out the downturns, your steel-nerved approach will pay off in highe...
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SANTA CRUZ -- Riot police using sticks and Mace ended an attempt by students to occupy the ((University of California at)) Santa Cruz chancellor's office Monday night . . . The brief . . . melee re...
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New research into the baffling causes of alcoholism is unearthing ever deeper clues that it's largely in the genes. And now researchers are making headway in their search for genetic markers that c...
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