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• Black colleges push U.S. Congress to revoke student aid changes
• Message in a bottle tossed off Calif. pier found in Guam
• Why Howard University Fell in the Best Colleges Rankings
• Exasperated teachers ban middle-school boys from saying ‘hump day’ all the damn time

Black colleges push U.S. Congress to revoke student aid changes Posted: 07 Oct 2013 02:12 PM PDT By Elvina Nawaguna WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A mere $600 stood between Christian Fair, 20, and his future this semester, when the U.S. Department of Education denied his parents a loan to help pay for his tuition and textbooks. The federal Parent PLUS loan program allows parents of undergraduate students to help pay for their children's college. While qualifying for those loans already required a credit check, the DOE in 2011 unexpectedly tightened its underwriting terms to include charge-offs and medical bill collections, rendering thousands of parents ineligible. ...

Message in a bottle tossed off Calif. pier found in Guam Posted: 07 Oct 2013 08:03 AM PDT In 2010, a Utah woman who was battling brain cancer put a note in a wine bottle and tossed it off a California pier. It was found last week by a group of high school students who were cleaning up a beach — in Guam.

Why Howard University Fell in the Best Colleges Rankings Posted: 07 Oct 2013 07:53 AM PDT Sidney A. Ribeau, president of Howard University in Washington, D.C., recently announced his retirement from the post he had held since August 2008. In some of the news coverage about Ribeau's sudden retirement, one factor that was cited was Howard's decline in the U.S. News Best Colleges rankings.

Exasperated teachers ban middle-school boys from saying ‘hump day’ all the damn time Posted: 07 Oct 2013 05:34 AM PDT Obviously, the best television commercial of recent vintage is the one for the auto insurance behemoth GEICO where the camel walks around a cheerless office beseeching several highly annoyed colleagues to "guess what day it is."

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