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10
Sep
2012
9:00pm, EDT
Cram schools boom widens India's class divide
Ahmad Masood / Reuters
Students attend class at the Bansal Classes in Kota in India's desert state of Rajasthan, Aug. 13, 2012.
Reuters reports — With a sprawling five-acre campus, 10,000 students and state-of-the-art LCD projectors in its lecture rooms, Bansal Classes is bigger and slicker than most schools in India.
But the institution, now a landmark in Kota, a city in the desert state of Rajasthan, is neither a school nor a college. It is the jewel in the crown of India's private coaching industry, a $6.4 billion business that exacerbates the social divide. Full story…
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A student studies in a classroom at the Bansal Classes in Kota in India's desert state of Rajasthan, Aug. 13.
Ahmad Masood / Reuters
A student checks his results on a notice board at the Bansal Classes in Kota, in India's desert state of Rajasthan, Aug. 13.
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India is overpopulated. It is time for drastic action to reduce it.
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4
Apr
2012
6:20am, EDT
Cops pepper-spray 30 as Santa Monica students protest fees
Up to 30 people were pepper-sprayed Tuesday by police after students tried to storm a Santa Monica College trustee board meeting in protest over proposed higher course fees. KNBC-TV's Robert Kovacik reports.
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Students protest outside the SMC Board of Trustees meeting at Santa Monica College on April 3, 2012 in Santa Monica, California.
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Santa Monica College officer Sergeant Williams raises his baton to push back students who were trying to rush into the meeting.
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Two women treat a child suffering from the effect of pepper spray outside the meeting.
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Nnaemeka Alozie is hosed off after suffering the effects of pepper spray outside the meeting.
NBC News and msnbc.com staff report — Up to 30 people were pepper-sprayed by police after students tried to storm a Santa Monica College trustee board meeting in protest over proposed higher course fees.
A handful of protesters suffered minor injuries as campus police tried to prevent dozens of students chanting, "Let us in, let us in" and "No cuts, no fees, education should be free," from disrupting the meeting during a public comment period, the Los Angeles Times reported.
Capt. Judah Mitchell of the Santa Monica Fire Department told NBC News that up to 30 people had been sprayed, five of whom sought treatment for the effects of the spray and were transported to nearby hospitals. Read more.
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Hahahahahahaa, they deserved it. There is no such thing as free.........silly socialist. It is not "FREE college", taxpayers fund it. It is not "FREE health care",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,taxpayers fund it. It is not "FREE housing",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,taxpayers fund it. It is not "FREE food stamps",,,,,,,,, …
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21
Nov
2011
10:33am, EST
Fun with foam: Scottish co-eds partake in yearly tradition
David Moir / Reuters
Students embrace after dousing each other with foam at St. Andrews University in Scotland on Monday, Nov. 21. The tradition dates back to the early days of the university when new students would give senior students a pound of raisins out of gratitude for their help in adapting to university life, in exchange for a receipt written in Latin. Failure to do so could result in a dousing in the local fountain. Nowadays the raisins have been replaced with a bottle of wine and the dousing with foam.
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A student from St. Andrews University sits on a bench during the traditional Raisin Monday celebrations in St. Andrews, Scotland on Monday.
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Students from St. Andrews University participate in the traditional Raisin Monday celebrations in St. Andrews, Scotland, on Monday.

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4
Sep
2011
11:22am, EDT
AP
In this photo taken Saturday, Sept. 3, relatives accompanying freshmen enrolling at Huazhong Normal University sleep in the gym on campus in Wuhan in central China's Hubei province. Many Chinese parents take time off from work to help their children during their college enrollment process.
Parents bunk on gym floor in China while helping children settle in at college
By Katie Cannon, Senior Multimedia Editor
While this doesn't look too comfortable, it looks like a pretty good way to save money on hotel costs. If this option was offered at colleges and universities in the United States for parents who are helping to move their kiddos into school, would you or your parents do it, or would the reservation at the inn a few miles from campus be kept? I have to say I think I'd do it in an effort to relive a bit of the camaraderie of dorm life from my college days, but I am just about positive my husband would not be on board with that plan.
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12
Apr
2011
12:08pm, EDT
John Hansen / The News & Observer via AP
East Carolina University students, from top to bottom, Matthew Archibald, Matt Schurtz, Thomas Briley, Chris Dowd, Danielle Spence, left in bottom hammock, Matt Ghezzo and Ryan Williford, standing, hang out in the quad on campus, in Greenville, N.C. The group hung their hammocks between trees as a "relaxing alternative to studying in the library," Spence said.
Holy hammocks! College students take studying to new heights.
By Jonathan Woods, msnbc.com
This is reminiscent of the sorts of things we did on the first nice day of the year when I was in school.
Except there would likely have been airsoft, paintball and/or fireworks involved... and there would be no studying.
Accoring to AP, yesterday's temperatures in the lower 48 states ranged from a morning low of 10 degrees at Leadville, Colo., to a high of 95 degrees at Edinburg, Texas.
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10
Jan
2011
10:07pm, EST
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LaMichael James of the Oregon Ducks is brought down by Mike McNeil of the Auburn Tigers during the Tostitos BCS National Championship Game at University of Phoenix Stadium on January 10, 2011 in Glendale, Arizona.
BCS National Championship No.1 Auburn vs., No. 2 Oregon
By James Cheng
See more great images from this game here.
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11
Dec
2010
4:14pm, EST
Jacqueline Larma / AP
Midshipman Bucky Smith of Great Falls, Va., peers between fellow midshipmen during the Navy march-on before the start of the 111th Army Navy football game in Philadelphia, Dec. 11, 2010.
Midshipman cheers on his classmates at the 111th Army Navy football game
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23
Jul
2010
11:30am, EDT
Mankato Free Press via AP
Gustavus Adolphus professor Scott Bur works in his aluminized office in St. Peter, Minn., on July 22. Students slipped into the chemistry professor's office while he was on vacation and as a prank, covered everything right down to pens and even his coffee pot cord with aluminum foil. "It's sort of become a tradition in my research group," said Bur, who'd only managed to unwrap his coffee pot and a few other essentials by Thursday morning. "When I go on vacation and come back, I always find something, " he told the Mankato Free Press
Great prank
Hilarious
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