2012年4月21日星期六

Yahoo! News: Education News

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Education News


For colleges, rape cases a legal minefield

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This Aug. 6, 2009 photo shows the Dinand Library on the campus of Holy Cross College in Worcester, Mass. Edwin Bleiler, who was expelled from Holy Cross in Massachusetts on the day he was supposed to graduate in spring 2011, for allegedly sexually assaulting another student. The accuser maintained she'd been intoxicated and unable to give consent to a sexual encounter. Bleiler contends she wasn't incapacitated and acted willingly. Now, Bleiler is suing Holy Cross, arguing the college's policies on consent and sexual misconduct discriminate against male students - violating his Title IX rights. (AP Photo/Worcester Telegram & Gazette, Dan Gould)A closed- door encounter between two college acquaintances. Both have been drinking. One says she was raped; the other insists it was consensual. There are no other witnesses.


Obama hits student loan costs, courts young voters; Republicans strike at his energy policies

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WASHINGTON - Eager to energize young voters, President Barack Obama is depicting Republicans as obstacles to an affordable college education as he previews an argument he will make on university campuses next week in states crucial to his re-election.

Obama wooing young voters with student loan focus

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President Barack Obama blows an air horn during a ceremony to welcome the Wounded Warrior Project's Soldier Ride to the White House Friday, April 20, 2012, in Washington, in celebration of the sixth annual Soldier Ride. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)Eager to energize young voters, President Barack Obama is depicting Republicans as obstacles to an affordable college education as he previews an argument he will make on university campuses next week in states crucial to his re-election.


Obama casts GOP as barrier to low-cost education

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President Barack Obama after signing a proclamation in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Friday, April 20, 2012, to designate federal lands within Fort Ord, a former military base located on California's Central Coast, as a National Monument under the Antiquities Act. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)Eager to energize young voters, President Barack Obama is depicting Republicans as obstacles to an affordable college education, using his Internet and radio address Saturday to preview an argument he will take on the road next week to university campuses in states crucial to his re-election.


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