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Students around the country have lambasted the Web site JuicyCampus, saying its anonymous forum is full of personal attacks, false and malicious statements, and hate speech. The site's founder, Matt Ivester, defended his brainchild in a recent appearance at Georgetown University.

Students in Colorado are abuzz about the election -- and the attention young voters have drawn -- but they are hardly casting ballots as a bloc. Watch them riff on their views in a Chronicle video.
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Jan Philipp Schmidt, manager of the free-courseware project at the University of the Western Cape, in South Africa, says his new P2P University will harness the talents of well-known professors who volunteer to teach online
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Students in Colorado are abuzz about the election -- and the attention young voters have drawn -- but they are hardly casting ballots as a bloc. Watch them riff on their views in a Chronicle video.
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Jan Philipp Schmidt, manager of the free-courseware project at the University of the Western Cape, in South Africa, says his new P2P University will harness the talents of well-known professors who volunteer to teach online
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It might take a while for full-blown fright to set in, but some students at George Mason University and Northern Virginia Community College are beginning to worry that the financial meltdown will affect their ability to pay for their education.

University of Richmond Chancellor E. Bruce Heilman, 82, sets off on October 1 to ride his motorcycle from Richmond, Va., to San Diego — covering up to 250 miles per day for 19 days. It's a reverse route across the states he hitchhiked through as a 20-year-old post-World War II Marine.

When John McCain and Barack Obama came to the University of Mississippi for their first presidential debate, the national spotlight brought with it a frenzied and festive atmosphere -- especially at the Grove, the university's tailgating hub.
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University of Richmond Chancellor E. Bruce Heilman, 82, sets off on October 1 to ride his motorcycle from Richmond, Va., to San Diego -- covering up to 250 miles per day for 19 days. It's a reverse route across the states he hitchhiked through as a 20-year-old post-World War II Marine.

The Chronicle took Bryan E. Porter, a traffic psychologist at Old Dominion University, to the corner of 16th and K Streets in downtown Washington and asked: What exactly do you look for at a busy intersection?

The biggest science experiment on the planet, the Large Hadron Collider, fired its first beam yesterday. The real atom smashing won't start for a few weeks, but when that gets under way, the machine could answer some of the most fundamental questions about the universe.

It's a simple question, but when Chronicle reporters asked presidents, policy wonks, and plenty of men and women on the street, the responses could scarcely have been more different.

College students attending this year's Republican National Convention explain why they support the candidacy of Sen. John McCain, who was officially nominated as the party's presidential candidate this week.

Thousands of supporters of Ron Paul, a Republican congressman from Texas, flocked to the Twin Cities this week for a gathering held during the Republican National Convention. Mr. Paul, a libertarian who ran for the Republican nomination for president, remains popular with many college students even after dropping out of the race.

College students attending this year's Democratic National Convention explain why they are excited by the candidacy of Sen. Barack Obama, who was officially nominated as the party's presidential candidate this week.

Researchers at the University of Richmond are making electoral history come alive with "cinematic maps," which use special-effects technology to animate static images.

After 27 years, Neil Slater is retiring as director of jazz studies at the University of North Texas. He almost turned down the job -- but then he heard students practicing as he toured the campus.
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Bedbugs have made unwelcome reappearances on a number of college campuses, but an elite force of dogs, trained at a Florida academy, is sniffing the pests out.
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A college can spend millions of dollars a year polishing its image, but one well-placed viral video can undo all that effort.
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A game of tag called Humans vs. Zombies, played with Nerf dart guns, has raised controversy on some campuses — but it is played enthusiastically at Goucher College.
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The members of Oklahoma City University's women's wrestling team, one of the best squads in the country, discuss the thrill of competition and the agony of cauliflower ear.
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Sen. Robert C. Byrd, a Democrat from West Virginia, is among the staunchest supporters of Congressional earmarks. Last year he spoke in defense of earmarks on the Senate floor.
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When The Chronicle asked readers to submit their own designs for George W. Bush's library at Southern Methodist University, more than 100 people obliged. Scott Carlson, a Chronicle reporter, takes a look at the best, the worst, and the weirdest.
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David Parry, a professor at the University of Texas at Dallas, talks about using Twitter, a new messaging service, for his courses.
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Student voters at Spelman College discuss how race and gender factored into their votes in Tuesday's Georgia primary.
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Spelman College students use dancing robots to show the lighter side of computer science.
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Watch a clip from Omer Salih Mahdi's documentary film about life inside a Baghdad hospital.
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College professors are becoming the latest Internet celebrities, as college start to upload recordings of lectures to YouTube, the popular video-sharing site.
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Over the last decade, college athletics departments have discovered a curious thing: Even spectators who never cheer or clap seem to go crazy for T-shirt guns.
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A college comedy contest in New Jersey offers a peek inside the undergraduate mind. It isn't pretty in there.
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Online videos that use clips from copyrighted music and movies may not violate the law and deserve protection from blanket prohibitions, say the authors of a new report from the American University's Center for Social Media and Washington College of Law.

Sorin A. Matei, an associate professor of communication at Purdue University, shows off a tool that lets students use virtual reality systems to study history.

University officials attending the conference of the College and University Professional Association for Human Resources, held over the weekend in Baltimore, discuss the challenges of their field in video interviews with The Chronicle.

See college mascots battling it out for supremacy on the sidelines.
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Officials at Northern Virginia Community College have turned a computer lab into a "Game Pit" to try to build community on the campus.
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College students walk out of class to show support for six African-American high-school students in Jena, La., who have been charged with violent crimes amid racial tensions in the small town.
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Take a tour of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's campus in Second Life, a 3-D online environment.
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An artist's video depiction of the campus in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
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Watch a demonstration of Scratch, a programming language designed for kids by MIT's Media Lab, and see some of the most popular creations.
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Watch a video report about how small colleges are using technology to promote their sports programs.
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Watch a video report of authors reading their works of electronic literature.
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See a tour of Case Western Reserve University's virtual campus in Second Life.
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Watch a video report about a Kansas State University professor and his students who are studying the culture of video blogging.
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Watch Southwestern College's mariachi band perform in Chula Vista, Calif.
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Watch a video report about a Web documentary series on college students in Iraq.
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Watch a compilation of college prank videos.
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