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The owners of a 106-year-old building in Shreveport have given it to Louisiana College for a law school planned to open in 2012. College President Joe Aguillard says the former CNB/United Mercantile building is within walking distance of several courthouses and law offices, and even looks like a law school. The Times reports that the college plans an 80,000-square-foot addition to include a lecture hall, library, student center and glass-enclosed tennis and basketball court. Louisiana College is a Baptist college in Pineville. Aguillard says the law school "will acknowledge the Judeo-Christian foundation of the legal system."

Alvin Greene has a diploma. And not from the Forrest Gump School of Wisdom-Spouting Rubes either. Heck, despite his action-figure-making aspirations, as far as we know, he never went to Mattel University to major in G.I. Joe. The surprise U.S. Senate candidate reportedly has a degree in political science from a fully accredited outfit, the University of South Carolina. Of course, this fact is likely to make Gamecocks wince, and yet another reason for Clemson alumni to believe theirs is the superior state-run school. Which it is. Seeing as how Alvin is a big-time politician, he's now a certified South...

UCSD Professors Want to Dissolve US — Give GPS Phones with Explicit Poetry to Illegals for Border Crossing http://www.theblaze.com/stories/ucsd-professors-want-to-dissolve-us-give-gps-phones-with-explicit-poetry-to-illegals-for-border-crossing/ Naked Emperor News

They may not be able to graduate on time or, in some cases, pass a security background check, but undocumented students, whether they be physicists or fellow travelers, just got a pass. “The Homeland Security agency responsible for protecting the border and deporting unauthorized foreigners (Immigration and Customs Enforcement or ICE) has halted the removal of illegal immigrants who are students, according to a Washington, DC-based legal group,” Jim Kouri reported for The Examiner newspaper chain on August 19, 2010. “The move, which will spare some 700,000 illegal aliens, is a response to nationwide rallies and demonstrations by defiant illegal...

The University of North Carolina has concocted a compromise on its abortion coverage that illustrates who all such gestures leave pro-lifers compromised. “Starting this school year, University of North Carolina students will be required to purchase a private insurance plan or enroll in a campus plan that includes abortion coverage,” Christopher A. Guzman reported on CNSNews.com. “And while the UNC administration has agreed under pressure from pro-lifers to allow students on the 16 campuses in the UNC system to opt out of the abortion coverage aspect of the campus plan, students who do opt out will pay the same premiums...

William Say, Matt. I heard you were teaching this semester. Where? Matt At a place Russell Kirk would have called "Behemoth U." A good school with a fine reputation. William Lot of students, eh? Matt More than you can shake a diploma at. William What are you teaching? Matt Statistics, of course, a mid-level Calculus section, and a class that can best be described as Math For Those Who Cannot Do Math. William What's that? Matt Everybody has to have a math credit to graduate, and this is one of the courses designed to give that credit. Everybody is supposed...

School begins for many this week, and there are some hard truths about higher education that few wish to explore, let alone acknowledge. 1. Not everyone should go to college. Getting a higher education can be a marvelous experience, but it's just not for everyone. I know of no country that attempts to educate everyone at this level. College was originally designed for students who are at least a standard deviation in academic aptitude above the mean. That eliminates all but about 16 percent of the population, and then a lot of those folks are wasting their time and money...

College is back in session, and students have a bigger voice than ever on the topic of costly textbooks. University of Arizona students start classes today. Pima Community College students will go back to class on Wednesday. Here are three new trends that students will see in the changing world of college textbooks. 1. Book prices are listed in class schedules - by law Federal law now requires publishers to disclose textbook prices to professors and requires them to sell compact discs and other extras separately instead of as a bundle. It also requires colleges to list the prices of...

Michigan State University professor Sharif Shakrani was read an expert's quote that appeared on the eighth page of his study the Mackinac Center says appears to be plagiarized. Shakrani said he got the two-sentence quote through his research online. But the study doesn't say where he found that quote. The two-sentence quote was part of more than 300 words that appear to have been taken virtually word-for-word from a Stateline.org March 22, 2010, article entitled, "Still too many schools?" Except for a few very minor alterations, a three-paragraph chunk of the Stateline.org piece appeared in the MSU study. Some examples...

A new college started classes this summer in Berkeley, California. Zaytuna College's motto is, "Where Islam meets America." It's the first Muslim college in the United States. ... The language in this classroom is Arabic. Zaytuna College is offering summer language classes in preparation for its official fall opening. The college emphasizes a rigorous general education in American history, anthropology, philosophy, literature, political science, but a major portion of its required curriculum is devoted to the study of Islam and the Koran. "We want to manifest Islam in a way that's compatible with America," says Imam Zaid Shakir, who founded...