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College Kids Draining Dorm Electricity
Grids

College Kids Draining Dorm Electricity
Grids 11/17/2003 04:17 AM
College kids are showing up at school with an increasing number of gadgets and electronics - and they all need power. Universities are discovering that they need to upgrade their electrical systems to provide more power and more outlets per room - and even then they're finding it's sometimes not enough. One study found that an average freshman arrived with 18 electrical gadgets. One director of residences claims that dorm rooms these days look like mini electronics stores. Of course, I don't think this sort of thing is limited to dorm rooms. I'm sure plenty of home users are discovering that they're draining more electricity and using up more outlets than ever before.

Disney to sell computers for kids

Disney to sell computers for kids 08/05/2004 10:37 AM
San Francisco Chronicle Aug 5 2004 2:28PM GMT

College kids are thieves, thieves,
thieves

College kids are thieves, thieves,
thieves 11/03/2003 11:13 AM
FoTW Software recidivists

Kids Have a ‘Doggone’ Good Time with
Launch of RAGGS Kids Club Band Video
Series

Kids Have a ‘Doggone’ Good Time with
Launch of RAGGS Kids Club Band Video
Series 08/10/2004 03:43 AM
[PRWEB Aug 10, 2004]

Keeping Your Kids Truly Safe and Secure
on the Internet Now Just Became as Easy
as "Smart Zone Kids" Browser Available
Through Wholesale-Telecom

Keeping Your Kids Truly Safe and Secure
on the Internet Now Just Became as Easy
as "Smart Zone Kids" Browser Available
Through Wholesale-Telecom 12/30/2004 05:15 AM
Wholesale-Telecom is now offering an Internet browser that protects children and teenagers from online pedophiles and inappropriate content The browser is totally interactive for parents to customize to their preference. [PRWEB Dec 30, 2004]

Keeping Your Kids Truly Safe and Secure
on the Internet Now Just Became as Easy
as “Smart Zone Kids” Browser Available
Through Wholesale-Telecom.

Keeping Your Kids Truly Safe and Secure
on the Internet Now Just Became as Easy
as “Smart Zone Kids” Browser Available
Through Wholesale-Telecom. 12/22/2004 01:28 AM
Wholesale-Telecom is now offering an Internet browser that protects children and teenagers from online pedophiles and inappropriate content The browser is totally interactive for parents to customize to their preference. [PRWEB Dec 10, 2004]

MP3 Players Aren't Just For Kids; In
Fact They're Barely For Kids

MP3 Players Aren't Just For Kids; In
Fact They're Barely For Kids 12/19/2004 03:47 PM
The common bit of wisdom is that MP3s are a young person's technology. It's the teens and the folks just coming out of college that are the MP3 generation, after all, so they'd be the most likely to own an MP3 player, right? Not at all, apparently. A new study says that 90% of MP3 player owners over 34 years old. While this may have something to do with the high price of many of the best MP3 players, the numbers still don't seem right. It would be interesting to see the methodology behind this study. That's not to say that those over 34 aren't likely to own an MP3 player, but it's hard to believe that 90% of MP3 players go to those 35 and older.

Ithaki 4 KiDs MetaSearch Engine for Kids

Ithaki 4 KiDs MetaSearch Engine for Kids 06/22/2005 02:48 AM


Ithaki 4 KiDs MetaSearch Engine for Kids
http://kids.ithaki.net/

Ithaki 4 KiDs helps you to find the best sites just for kids via searching in real time several search engines for kids like DmozKids, Yahooligans, FactMonster, ArtKIDSRule, AolKIDS, AwesomeLibrary & KidsClick!. Ithaki is a metasearch engine, it finds quickly the best web sites because it searches at once the top search engines and guides for kids, then ranks the results according to an internal ranking to make sure you get the exactly what you're looking for. This will be added to the search engines section of all the 2005 Internet MiniGuides.

Presents For Bad Kids Head To eBay,
Rather Than Kids

Presents For Bad Kids Head To eBay,
Rather Than Kids 12/27/2004 04:42 AM
Well, normally, people wait until after they've received presents to dump them on eBay. However, one father who felt his three sons were being particularly bad lately decided that to punish them he's putting their presents up for sale on eBay. To be honest, this sounds like a bit of a publicity stunt -- and it seems likely that, now that this is getting attention, that casino that seems to be buying e very random quirky auction item will snap this one up. Update: Whoops. It's apparently already happened. Indeed, the casino in question has d ecided to buy the undelivered presents. This is sort of an update on our story last year about how sellers were increasingly looking to use eBay as a publicity generating tool. It appears that's now being used by buyers to generate publicity, as well.

You Can Pay for College

You Can Pay for College 09/22/2004 08:42 AM
Tips and resources galore are at your fingertips.

College backs off Wi-Fi ban

College backs off Wi-Fi ban 09/16/2004 04:51 PM
Tensions ease at the University of Texas at Dallas when administrators reverse restrictions on Wi-Fi use.

Hacker college

Hacker college 07/07/2004 07:52 AM

When Brooklyn goes to college

When Brooklyn goes to college 01/23/2004 09:49 PM
The BBC's Mike Baker looks at how universities might be run in 2020.

How to Invest for College

How to Invest for College 05/07/2004 08:57 AM
One size doesn't fit all when it comes to college savings.

College Prep Help That Goes With You

College Prep Help That Goes With You 12/30/2004 04:26 AM
New York Times Dec 30 2004 7:59AM GMT

Getting Through College, Thanks To
Plagiarism

Getting Through College, Thanks To
Plagiarism 11/13/2003 05:25 AM
There have been plenty of stories about college kids cheating by buying or just cutting and pasting complete assignments for their classes, but this BBC piece includes a quote from someone claiming that she basically did that on every paper she's turned in throughout college, and is now using the same cut-and-paste method to finish up her dissertation. Clearly, that's an outlier example, but it does show how far people will go. The article includes lots of quotes from people who complain about the dumbing down of our education system that has allowed this to happen, but I'm not sure that's the case. Kids have always cheated in school. This just makes the process easier. Of course, what they don't mention is that the real punishment is already being handed out to these kids. They're attending (and in many cases paying quite a bit) four years of college and not learning a damn thing, because all they're doing is cutting and pasting.

How to Save for College

How to Save for College 04/22/2004 02:54 PM
College is expensive, no doubt about it -- but you can afford it.

College To Do Away With Fair Use

College To Do Away With Fair Use 12/17/2003 09:34 PM
The latest silliness from our college campuses is this bit of news from Ithaca College, where they're planning to tell professors that fair use no longer exists when it comes to course packs (the photocopied excerpts from various sources that many professors use to give students short excerpts from a variety of sources). While most such course packs do involve some approved material, much of it is often used on a fair-use basis - but university administrators are afraid of getting sued. Thus, they're going to tell professors that they need to license every last bit of content they use. This means that (a) professors will ditch a lot of materials, because they don't have time to get approval from everyone or because the publisher wants too much money to include a single paragraph and (b) the course packs will be much more expensive with less useful stuff for students. In some cases, professors will simply put the materials on library loan, where students will go and photocopy it anyway - basically adding an "annoyance" factor to the process. It's a great lesson we're teaching the students of today when they don't get to read certain materials because it's just too damn expensive.

Saving for College

Saving for College 01/22/2004 11:34 AM
College costs can be managed with proper planning.

What Will College Really Cost?

What Will College Really Cost? 04/19/2004 03:14 PM
You've heard the scary statistics, but the final price tag may not be so bad.

Convergence calls at college

Convergence calls at college 04/13/2005 08:07 AM
Computer Weekly Apr 13 2005 12:05PM GMT

Sad Adieu to College, and to Good Old
.edu

Sad Adieu to College, and to Good Old
.edu 06/16/2004 09:02 PM
It's graduation season. Along with this rite of passage come significant changes - including, for many, the need to relinquish a college e-mail address.

PSNI college to be confirmed

PSNI college to be confirmed 02/17/2004 05:07 PM
The Policing Board is to meet on Thursday to agree the site for the new police training college.

Decision due on police college

Decision due on police college 02/19/2004 02:42 AM
A final decision is due on the location of a new police training college in Northern Ireland.

Other News: College Market

Other News: College Market 08/23/2004 10:56 AM
Apple's doing better lately in the college market, thanks to iPods, laptops and security.

RIAA to Sue 405 More College Students

RIAA to Sue 405 More College Students 04/12/2005 02:45 PM
The RIAA said Tuesday it intends to file lawsuits against hundreds of college students sharing music and movie files over Internet2, the next-generation network of college universities that is intended for research of new technologies. On Wednesday, 405 lawsuits will be filed against students at 18 universities.

College Radio Database 0.9.4

College Radio Database 0.9.4 12/03/2003 08:40 PM
Web-based software for radio stations tracking CDs, spins, attendance, and more.

College Radio Database 0.9.3

College Radio Database 0.9.3 11/13/2003 11:01 PM
Web-based software for radio stations tracking CDs, spins, attendance, and more.

ADV: Accredited College Degree

ADV: Accredited College Degree 04/07/2005 03:07 PM
Earn you college degree today. Almeda can convert your experience into an accredited college degree. What would you do with a college degree?

Blog out the college vote!

Blog out the college vote! 09/07/2004 08:01 PM
Zephyr Teachout, one of my very favorite faves from the Dean campaign, is heading up the oddly-named Baobabs College Labs Project, funded by Mitch Kapor and Freada Kapor Klein, intended to get out the college vote. From the press release: The campaign is targeting a dozen universities in swing states such as Ohio, New Mexico, Arizona, and Pennsylvania. Selected progressive student organizers on these campuses are given stipends, support, and online community building tools developed on the Howard Dean campaign. ...The effort hopes to spread online beyond the initial schools using such web tools as Civic Space, formerly "Dean Space,"...

" Electoral College Graph"

" Electoral College Graph" 08/04/2004 03:30 PM

Students, college face off over Wi-Fi

Students, college face off over Wi-Fi 09/09/2004 08:26 PM
University of Texas bans students' private Wi-Fi hot spots, saying they block access to a campus wireless network.

College heads protest to MPs

College heads protest to MPs 05/19/2004 09:06 AM
Heads of colleges of further education protest at Westminster over funding cuts.

Take College Tours Online

Take College Tours Online 03/27/2005 08:21 AM
Thedenverchannel.com - Sun Mar 27, 07:06 am GMT

Abolish the Electoral College

Abolish the Electoral College 08/30/2004 10:41 PM
unsigned editorial .. such depths .. abolition

nytimes.com/2004/08/29/opinion/29sun1.html
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Best undergrad college regardless of
price?

Best undergrad college regardless of
price? 12/17/2004 06:35 PM

I know a high school senior with 1600 on his SATs.  His parents were not sufficiently loving to change their last name to "Rodriguez" so he is not a shoo-in affirmative action candidate at America's most elite colleges.  Nonetheless with his perfect SAT scores he ought to get into some pretty good schools.  The question is where should he apply and attend?

After observing the behavior of MIT and Harvard faculty compared to professors at small town liberal arts schools I'm beginning to wonder if the biggest name schools represent a good choice even for a kid with infinite money.  In the old days you had to worry about whether faculty at research universities would pay attention to undergrads amidst the distractions of applying for grants and supervising graduate students and postdocs to perform on those grants.  Nothing has changed there except that competition for grants has become ever more fierce, forcing the professors to spend a bit more time applying and writing up results.  For an undergrad who actually wants to see and do research it might make sense to choose a school like MIT where there are substantial opportunities for undergrads to get into labs.  The professors might ignore the undergrads in the classes that they teach but they won't ignore the motivated undergrads helping with their funded research.

The big change compared to the 1960s and 1970s is the affordability of housing close to the campuses of some of the top research schools.  A Harvard or MIT professor who wants to live in a family-sized house will either need to spend two hours per day commuting from the exurbs or two days per week consulting to pay for the $1.5 million house in Cambridge.  In the old days a junior professor hurried from the classroom to the lab.  Today she hurries from the classroom to the lab and then tries to depart the campus by 4 pm to beat the traffic out to the exurbs.  She won't spend the evening taking her students out for dinner; if she is socializing it will be with folks unrelated to the university who live near her house.

For personal attention from the faculty it would seem that one should restrict one's college search to schools in areas where real estate is still cheap enough that professors live close to campus.  Brown would be good.  Harvard would be bad.  Some schools are near cheap housing but are still bad due to the fact that they are in crime-ridden ghettos (Yale and Penn?).  Amherst and Williams should be good.

What else should matter to the young male applicant?  How about girls?  The 17-year-old boy with 1600s on his SATs probably hasn't had time to become captain of the football team and do the other things that appeal to high school babes.  Why then subject oneself to four more years of rejection and frustration by attending a college where girls are in short supply?  Fifty-seven percent of bachelor's degrees are awarded to women in the U.S.  Why not choose a school where women are at least 57 percent of the students?  Remember that if 40 girls pair up with 40 boys that leaves 17 single girls for every 3 single guys!

Finally I guess we should tell the kid that if he and his parents don't have infinite money he should go wherever is cheap.  A motivated student can learn at most of the better colleges in the U.S.  A friend of mine was a brilliant high school student.  She went to Tulane in New Orleans as an undergrad where they gave scholarships for smart kids and where she could have a good time.  She went to MIT and got a PhD in physical science.  People sometimes do ask where she did her PhD work.  No potential employer would care where she was an undergrad.  For any field in which a graduate degree will be required it doesn't make sense to spend family $$ on a fancy undergrad degree that nobody will care about (not even the grad school; they always ask "was this your best student in the last 10 years?" and no honest teacher at a top school is going to be able to say "yes" because being smart is so cheap at a place such as Harvard or MIT).

So... where do we tell young John Q. Nerdly to apply?  He has the good test scores and public high school grades.  He is considering majoring in Biology (smart kid!).  He likes to climb rocks.  He hasn't been doing that great with the ladies as far as I can tell (the best vehicle that he can generally muster is a dented 10-year-old Ford Taurus station wagon, which might explain some of this lack of success).  His parents could suck it up to pay for an Ivy League no-merit-scholarship cartel university but they'd rather not.

EA tackles college football

EA tackles college football 04/11/2005 01:37 PM
Locking in another sports franchise, leading game publisher Electronic Arts will now have exclusive rights to college football games.

My college is on an open road

My college is on an open road 04/16/2005 10:09 AM
Express Computer India Apr 16 2005 2:13PM GMT

The liberal college conspiracy

The liberal college conspiracy 09/20/2004 08:24 AM
Conservatives like David Brooks love to blame academics for making lopsided donations to Democrats. A closer look reveals otherwise.
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