For gangs, tattoos out; college look in
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Tattoos, baggy pants and tank tops are out. Smart blazers and university recruits are in.
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AUBURN HILLS, Mich., Sept. 16 -- The tattoo on Cappie Pondexter's left arm was inked when she was still in high school. It features the WNBA logo, and reads "The Future."
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Given the prevalence of emotional difficulties on campus, it pays to find out, before choosing a college, what mental health services are available.
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A U.C.L.A. graduate student's performance art project that involved the use of a gun has prompted two resignations and a debate on the limits of expression at the university.
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College students now are wired, wireless, Sidekicked, Facebooked, YouTubed and bleeping with instant messages and text messages. But try getting an important announcement out to everyone on campus.
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He's got social networking pages online. He visits college campuses, where enthusiastic student groups lobby hard to get their peers involved in politics.
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More colleges and universities are embracing music services for their students in an effort to cut down on peer-to-peer traffic that clogs school networks and puts students at risk for lawsuits. By Katie Dean.
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NEW YORK  - College parties that boast drinking games or sexualized themes or costumes may encourage students to drink to a particularly excessive degree, a new study suggests.
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SOME COLLEGE students know how to run for their lives. Take cross-country athletes. They do not get the ink. They do not get the television time. They do not have governors, alumni, and 70,000 fans fawning all over them, telling them how critical they are to the mental health of an entire state.
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By Nicola Boden  WITH its dispersed population, deep forests and abundance of lakeside lodges, Wisconsin once made the perfect hideaway for some of America's most notorious gangsters.
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Swarms of students have been led to "The Gates" to observe, to draw, to meditate Â and in many cases to pontificate Â on the meaning of art and nature.
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An off-campus party that asked students to come dressed "politically incorrect" has prompted an investigation by Macalester College officials who learned one student was costumed as a Ku Klux Klan member and another wore blackface with a noose around his neck.
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AMHERST -- The canvas is perched in front of him; only he can see it. A film of charcoal covers it; you have to imagine that as well. In the deserted University of Massachusetts football locker room, he's wielding an invisible eraser, sweeping away the veneer in precise arcs and circles and lines.
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They are working to repair an image tattered by homegrown radicals - and to find a place in mainstream society.
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During lectures, they answer their cell phones, text message their friends and play games on their laptop computers. Are college students really that rude? Yes, says Delaney Kirk, a professor of management at Drake University in Des Moines. But, she adds, it's not their fault.
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There is much to discover on the Facebook, the online community for college students, such as which cute guy already has a girlfriend and which girl thinks she's hot but, whatever, check out her skanky picture.
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Urban students see glimmers of their own evolving identities and dreams in F. Scott Fitzgeraldâs novel.