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Student Advocates Frown On Obama's Student Loan Plan

The Huffington Post | Tyler Kingkade | Posted 06.12.2013 | College
Read More: Obama Student Loans, Federal Student Loans, Anne Johnson, #Dontdoublemyrate, President Obama, Obama Student Loan Interest Rates, Student Loans, Student Loan Interest Rates, Peter Mcpherson, Interest Rates Student Loans, Majoring in Debt, Student Loan Battle, Campus Progress, College News

After the Senate voted down two proposals Thursday to keep interest rates on new, subsidized Stafford loans from doubling from 3.4 percent to 6.8 perc...

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Framing the Occidental Fight for a Better Sexual Assault Policy

Lisa Wade | Posted 05.14.2013 | College
Read More: Conversations on Campus, Sexual Violence, Campus Crime, Rape, Sexual Assault, Campus Safety, Campus Progress, Occidental College, Sexual Assault on Campus, College News
Lisa Wade

There will be a day when honest, transparent, and fair reporting and adjudication of sexual assaults will be the norm. That day is coming, and we want Oxy to get there first.

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Exposing Occidental College's Sexist Rape Policy

Lisa Wade | Posted 05.07.2013 | Los Angeles
Read More: Conversations on Campus, Sexual Violence, Campus Crime, Rape, Sexual Assault, Campus Progress, Campus Safety, Los Angeles News
Lisa Wade

Under a new policy at Occidental College, any time there is a report of a sexual assault, the college community should receive an email saying so. Last week, however, the students learned of a report of a sexual assault second-hand.

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Indiana Lawmaker: More Guns Will Prevent Rapes On Campus

The Huffington Post | Tyler Kingkade | Posted 03.12.2013 | College
Read More: Indiana Guns on Campus, Guns on Campus Indiana, Guns on Campus, Indiana Lawmaker, Firearms on Campus, College Campuses Guns, Indiana Republican Guns on Campus, Jim Banks Guns on Campus, Jim Banks, Campus Progress, Jim Banks Gun Control, College News

An Indiana Republican wants to pass a law to allow college students to carry guns around campus because, he believes, it will protect will protect wom...

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Five Ways Young People Were Featured In The Presidential Debate

Pushback | Posted 10.19.2012 | College
Read More: pushback.org, Youth Vote, College Voters, College Students Election, Millennials, Mitt Romney, Young People, Presidential Debate, Campus Progress, Barack Obama, College News

The real winner of Tuesday’s presidential debate? Young voters. Unlike the first presidential debate and the vice-presidential face-off, issues t...

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5 Ways To Address The Student Debt Crisis

Campus Progress | Posted 09.27.2012 | College
Read More: Campus Progress Student Loans, Student Debt Crisis, Student Debt, Majoring in Debt, Student Loan Crisis, Student Loan Debt, Student Loans, Campus Progress, College News

As a country, we have reached a critical point within our system of higher education. In the past three decades, the cost of attaining a college degr...

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Patrick Svitek

Nancy Pelosi Slams Super PAC Spending, Calls To Overturn Citizens United

HuffingtonPost.com | Patrick Svitek | Posted 07.27.2012 | Politics
Read More: Pelosi Citizens United, 2012 Elections Blog, Super PACs, Dick Durbin, Elections 2012, Citizens United, Center for American Progress, David Podesta, Video, House Minority Leader, Hilda Solis, 2012 Election, Nancy Pelosi, Campus Progress, Citizens United Amendment, Campus Progress National Conference, Citizens United Constitutional Amendment, Nancy Pelosi Citizens United, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) laid out the stakes of November's elections to hundreds of young voters Thursday, amping u...

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Music Unites Campus Representative Program Gives Back by Mentoring NYC Students

Michelle Edgar | Posted 05.30.2012 | Impact
Read More: The Bailen Brothers, Sophia Melon, Columbia University, Demi Lovato, Music Education, New York City, Choir, Music Unites, Campus Progress, Impact News
Michelle Edgar

Music education is an essential aspect of child development. However, because of budget cuts, especially in our inner city schools, music education is among the first things to go.

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The History Of The Pell Grant In Pictures

Posted 09.24.2011 | College
Read More: History of the Pell Grant Info Graphic, Campus Progress Pell Grant, Pell Grant Infographic, Campus Progress, Pell Grants, College News

Campus Progress has handily put together an illustrated history of the diminishing Pell Grant. Can you believe that in 1972, the Pell Grant covered a...

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Hangover Cures From Around The World

Big Girls, Small Kitchen | Posted 09.05.2011 | College
Read More: College Students, Healthy Eating, Big Girls Small Kitchen, French, Coffee, The Hangover, Drinking, Teenagers, World News, Education, College, Recipes, Germany, Cooking, College News, Alcohol, Food, Schools, Italian Food, Irish, Campus Progress, Small Kitchen College, International, College News
Big Girls, Small Kitchen

The best remedy for treating a hangover is to detox with lots of water and replenish on vitamins with clean (unprocessed) foods but every culture has its cure.

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Tyler Kingkade

Bill Clinton's Warning On The Debt Ceiling Debate

HuffingtonPost.com | Tyler Kingkade | Posted 09.05.2011 | Politics
Read More: Bill Clinton, Federal Deficit, Debt Ceiling, Spending Cuts, Simpson-Bowles, Debt Negotiations, Former President, Tax Hikes, Campus Progress, President Clinton, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- Former President Bill Clinton said Wednesday that any deficit-cutting deal worked out between Democrats and Republicans shouldn't take e...

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Three Printers Refuse LGBT Student Publication, Citing F-Word, Images of Cross-Dressing

| David Spett | Posted 06.27.2011 | College
Read More: Lgbt, Fusion, Kent State, Campus Progress, The Midwest, Kent State LGBT Magazine, College News

Three printing companies have refused to publish the spring edition of Fusion, a Campus Progress-sponsored LGBT magazine at Kent State University, cit...

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Beyond The Dining Hall: All About Pancakes

Big Girls, Small Kitchen | Posted 06.20.2011 | College
Read More: Healthy Eating, Breakfast, Healthy Living, Recipes, College, Big Girls Small Kitchen, Cooking, Kitchen, Food, Green Living, Campus Progress, Brunch, Pancakes, College News
Big Girls, Small Kitchen

The pancake-waffle debate has not been as widely publicized or polarized as the Great Cake-Pie Schism that has defined the past decade. And while my f...

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Weekly Audit: The Shocking Truth About Taxes

The Media Consortium | Posted 06.19.2011 | Politics
Read More: Teachers, Tax, YASHA LEVINE, Texas, Progressive, Texas Observer, Campus Progress, Debt, RESOURCE GENERATION, Jamelle Bouie, Dave Gilson, Working in These Times, Layoffs, Tapped, PETE REDINGTON, ABBY RAPOPORT, Student Loan, JULIE MARGETTA MORGAN, KRISTY LEISSLE, The Nation, Farm, Mother Jones, YES! Magazine, Politics News
The Media Consortium

By Lindsay Beyerstein, Media Consortium blogger The super rich are different from you and me. For one thing, their tax rates are lower. According to I...

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What A For-Profit Education Looks Like (INFOGRAPHIC)

Posted 06.09.2011 | College
Read More: An Education in for-Profit Education, For Profit Colleges, Susie Cagle, Campus Progress, For Profit College Infographic, Infographic, College News

What does a for-profit education really look like? Find out below, courtesy of our friends at Campus Progress. ...

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Weekly Mulch: The EPA Can Regulate Carbon, For Now

The Media Consortium | Posted 06.08.2011 | Green
Read More: Grist, ORION MAGAZINE, The Colorado Independent, Earthworks, Campus Progress, Carbon Regulation, Senate, Epa, Natural Gas, Omb, Composting, UN Foundation, SOLAR DONE RIGHT, House, American Prospect, Carbon Emissions, Earth Island Journal, Clean Energy, MORAL GROUND, Green News
The Media Consortium

by Sarah Laskow, Media Consortium blogger This week, the House voted to shut down the carbon regulation program at the Environmental Protection Agency...

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Weekly Audit: Wolf in Sheep's Clothing--The Myth of Fiscal Conservatism

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.29.2011 | Politics
Read More: Obama, Gop, College, Pension, Tim Murphy, Tax, Tara Lohan, Steve Benen, Deficit, Union, Cuts, General Electric, Campus Progress, Debt, Washington Monthly, Congress, Fiscal Conservatism, ALIYA KARIM, Tapped, DEFINED CONTRIBUTION, Tax Cut, Higher Education, University, Unemployment, Iowa, Transparency, SARAH BABBAGE, Rich, Mother Jones, Defined Benefit, Alternet, Politics News
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By Lindsay Beyerstein, Media Consortium blogger Fashionable pundits like to say that the Republican Party has shifted its focus from "social conservat...

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Weekly Diaspora: Big Business Dictates Immigration Policy--At Workers' Expense

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Russell Pearce, Department of Homeland Security, Bracero, Immigration Reform, Colorlines, Campus Progress, Immigration, New America Media, Arizona, Utah, In These Times, Texas Observer, Guest Worker Program, Seiu, Politics News
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By Catherine A. Traywick, Media Consortium blogger Arizona's business leaders, frustrated by the deep financial fallout of increasingly radical immigr...

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Weekly Audit: Massive Protest In Wisconsin Shows Walker's Overreach

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Supreme Court, Rights, Collective Bargaining, Tractorcade, Poll, The Nation, Firefighter, Republican, Alternet, Steve Benen, Senator, Broke, Scott Walker, Protest, E.J. Dionne, Bank, M&I, Union, Jamelle Bouie, Budget, Washington Monthly, Wisconsin Democratic Party, Election, Enthusiasm Gap, Tapped, Campus Progress, Wisconsin, Koch, JoAnne Kloppenburg, SIMEON TALLEY, Madison, Roger Bybee, Farmer, Working in These Times, Recall, John Nichols, Inequality, Senate, Politics News
The Media Consortium

By Lindsay Beyerstein, Media Consortium blogger About 100,000 people gathered in Madison, Wisconsin to protest Gov. Scott Walker's new anti-collective...

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Weekly Diaspora: Arizona Pushing Undocumented to Surrounding States

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: New America Media, Immigration, Economy, ARIZONA PLUS, Colorlines, Arizona, In These Times, Oklahoma, Campus Progress, Immigration Reform, Utah, Politics News
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By Catherine A. Traywick, Media Consortium blogger A combination of stricter immigration enforcement and reduced economic opportunities in Arizona has...

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Weekly Diaspora: The 2012 Budget and Our Unsecured Border

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Department of Homeland Security, Immigration Reform, American Independent, Immigration Impact, Campus Progress, 2012 Budget, House, Dhs, Border, Obama, Immigration, Border Security, Care2, Alternet, Politics News
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By Catherine A. Traywick, Media Consortium blogger President Obama is taking heat from all sides this week for his 2012 budget proposal, which propose...

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Weekly Audit: Police Defy Order to Clear Protesters from Wisconsin Capital

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Photography, Democracy Now!, Anonymous, David Koch, Collective Bargaining, Police, Civil Rights, Middle Class, Sanitation Worker, Ddos, Layoff, Kelda Helen Roys, Dc, Mother Jones, Matthew Rothschild, Scott Walker, Protest, Dues, Rally, Andy Kroll, Union, Quorum, Illinois, New York, Martin Luther King, Budget, Solidarity, The Progressive, George Warner, Care2, The Uptake, Colorlines, Campus Progress, Wisconsin, Madison, Amy Goodman, Jessica Pieklo, Jon Erpenbach, Senate, Economy, Indiana, Politics News
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By Lindsay Beyerstein, Media Consortium blogger On Monday afternoon, the Capitol Police in Madison, Wisconsin refused to enforce an order to clear the...

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Weekly Diaspora: Sweeping AZ Immigration Bills Target Undocumented Children

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Lgbt, SB 1611, Immigration, Undocumented Youth, SB 1309, LGBT Homeless, Arizona, Undocumented Students, Feet in 2 Worlds, Russell Pearce, Immigration Reform, Campus Progress, Colorlines, Homeless Youth, LGBT Immigrants, Homelessness, DREAM Act, New America Media, Birthright Citizenship Bill, Birthright Citizenship, Omnibus Immigration Bill, Politics News
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By Catherine A. Traywick, Media Consortium blogger The Arizona state Senate moved forward with two controversial measures this week that threaten to m...

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Showdown in Madison: A Primer for the Wisconsin Protests

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Wisconsin, FREE SPEECH RADIO NEWS, COLORLINES.COM, The Progressive, The Nation, Campus Progress, The Uptake, Protests, Unions, Madison, Mother Jones, Scott Walker, Working in These Times, Grittv, Politics News
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by Raquel Brown, Media Consortium blogger It's been a tumultuous week in Madison, Wisconsin. Tens of thousands of state workers, teachers, and studen...

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Weekly Diaspora: Justice for Brisenia as Minutemen Leader Convicted of Murders

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: The American Prospect, Robert Krentz, Minutemen, Tom Horne, Feet in Two Worlds, Roger Barnett, Immigration, Arizona, Fair, Alternet, Tapped, Campus Progress, Colorlines, Anti-Latino Hate Crime, Jan Brewer, Shawna Forde, Nativist, New America Media, Raul Flores, Brisenia Flores, Hate Crime, Federation for American Immigration Reform, Politics News
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By Catherine A. Traywick, Media Consortium blogger Days after Arizona Governor Jan Brewer and Attorney General Tom Horne filed suit against the federa...

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