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11Mar/100

Little Girl Suspended for … Saying ‘No’ to Drugs!

We hear about school administrators making insane decisions quite a bit, and this time it’s no different. A seventh grade student in Indiana has been suspended for a week. The offense? Saying no to drugs. Another kid approached Rachel in a locker room with some Adderall pills and put one in her hand. Rachel did what she was always taught to do — she refused it and gave it back. The Adderall pusher got caught and Rachel was asked to cooperate in the investigation, which she did. She wrote a witness statement, in which she described being offered the drug, having it placed in her hand and giving it back. School administrators say they’re sorry, but touching a drug constitutes possession and the five-day suspension is mandatory. Rules are rules. Read ahead

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11Mar/100

New Jobs at the European Union

Working for the European Union is a dream job for many young graduates. It is well-paid (unmarried officers get just under 4000 euros per month to start), sophisticated, and it is a job for life: a career. Read ahead

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11Mar/100

What’s it like to live off-campus during college?

Your own rules, a full-size fridge, a dishwasher (if you are lucky), convenient parking (if you are really lucky), and a shower you don’t have to wear shoes in. Those are just some of the perks that come with living off-campus. But life off-campus isn’t always what it’s cracked up to be. Don’t get me wrong, living off-campus can be a very freeing experience. It’s kind of your trial into the real world of adulthood, a world where dining halls aren’t simply a few steps away. But with that freedom comes responsibility. Responsibility for paying your rent and utilities, making regular trips to the grocery store, buying or borrowing furniture and kitchen utensils, and spending money on comforts you take for granted… like toilet paper. I didn’t mind the responsibility. In fact, I enjoyed having my own space to do what I wanted, when I wanted. I moved off-campus my junior year. I have to admit, when I think of my “college experience,” I think of my time in the dorms. The problem with living off-campus is that you aren’t as plugged in to all of the campus happenings. You are less likely to return to campus in the evening for an interesting lecture, sports event, or late night dining hall binge. Not to mention, what do you do with yourself when you have hours between classes? I was always a big fan of napping in a friend’s dorm room, although I suppose I could have gone to the library and studied. Campus becomes a place where you take classes and run into friends, but it is no longer your home. When you live on-campus, playing Frisbee® on the quad is like playing in your backyard, but once you move off-campus, it becomes Frisbee in front of the library at school. But then there are off-campus perks of non-bunked beds, sharing a whole apartment or house—rather than just a room—with a roommate, and of course, living by your own rules. To me, living in a dorm is a rite of passage, something everyone in college should experience for at least two years before you move out and have to grow up Read ahead

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11Mar/100

8 Outrageous Frauds Involving Phony Online Degrees

Trinity Southern University (TSU) in January 2004 and offered “degrees” in a variety of subjects for a fee between $299 and $499. They hacked into 60 Pennsylvania businesses to distribute over 18.000 spam emails advertising the scam. Using a bogus résumé for the deputy attorney general´s cat, investigators were able to acquire an MBA degree for “Colby” with a 3.5 grade point average. In March 2005 the brothers were fined a total of $131.000 for their fraudulent actions. (Read ahead

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11Mar/100

Creating a custom Facebook Fan Page

A Facebook Page is a public Profile that enables information about business and products to be shared with Facebook users and the public. An user should be able to create one in a few minutes. This article explains how to add custom tabs to your Facebook page to make it do more. Here we explain how we built a carousel, navigation tabs, forms, etc on the Read ahead

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