School Hears Calls to End Mascot's Act
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URBANA, Ill., Feb. 1 -- The students and other supporters came by the hundreds Thursday, filling up the school's Foellinger Auditorium, rattling the walls with cheers and applause, and booing lustily at their outnumbered opponents.
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A Roman Catholic archbishop's call this week for Saint Louis University to discipline its popular basketball coach for publicly supporting abortion rights has put the Jesuit school in a bind.
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Hundreds of students turned out at Colorado State University to speak their minds on whether the student newspaper's editor should lose his job over four words.
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Universities Secretary, John Denham, says students should be helped to stand up to extremist "intimidation".
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A movement is growing on college campuses to boycott Coca-Cola for alleged labor and environmental abuses
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A teenager is due to accuse her school of discriminating against Christians in a High Court action.
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LEMOORE, Calif. - Fed up with students' racy moves, a principal at a California high school has taken the unusual step of canceling the rest of this year's school dances.
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More than a third of US high-school students see the First Amendment as excessive, a survey suggests.
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A secondary school tests a new fingertip-recognition roll call to help tackle truancy.
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The state American Civil Liberties Union plans to file a federal lawsuit Tuesday against a Pennsylvania school district that is requiring students to learn about alternatives to the theory of evolution.
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Animal rights campaigners call on a whisky firm to end its sponsorship of the elephant polo world cup.
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Students are stirring over cancellation of their public transport privileges and a new draft law.
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Rights campaigners protested Tuesday over a device used to disperse unruly young people by emitting a high-pitched noise which only they can hear.
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A state where charter schools have been growing fast - and running into troubles - is now debating a new approach
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Marchers show displeasure at headquarters; school closures to be announced this morning.
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Marquette coach Tom Crean promised to bring a megaphone next time his team plays at the Allstate Arena. That way, he said, maybe the referees will be able to hear his cries for a timeout.
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HARRISBURG, Pa.  - Civil rights groups sued a  Pennsylvania school district on Tuesday to block teaching of  "intelligent design," an alternative to evolution that contends  nature was created by an all-powerful being.