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• Online learning company 2U files for IPO of up to $100 million
• South Carolina Lawmakers Vote to Cut Colleges' Funds for Having Gay Books on Their Reading Lists
• Two Frenchwomen gain rare accolade of Pantheon burial

Online learning company 2U files for IPO of up to $100 million Posted: 21 Feb 2014 03:15 PM PST (Reuters) - 2U Inc, which builds online learning platforms, filed with U.S. financial regulators on Friday to raise up to $100 million in an initial public offering of common stock. The Landover, Maryland-based company provides cloud-based online learning platforms that help nonprofit colleges and universities in student enrollment, education, support and other services. Goldman Sachs & Co and Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC are the lead underwriters to the offering, the company said in a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

South Carolina Lawmakers Vote to Cut Colleges' Funds for Having Gay Books on Their Reading Lists Posted: 21 Feb 2014 01:47 PM PST In a bold move that bolsters democracy and freedom of expression everywhere, South Carolina lawmakers have voted to remove $70,000 in funding from two colleges because they don't agree with LGBT themes on student reading lists. South Carolina state House budget writers voted on Wednesday to punish the College of Charleston and the University of South Carolina Upstate, both public schools. The amount of money being withdrawn from the colleges equals the amount each school spent on their respective reading programs. $17,142 is being withdrawn from USC Upstate over the book Out Loud: The Best of Rainbow Radio, a chronicle of South Carolina's first gay and lesbian radio station that also includes stories about LGBT life in the Bible Belt.  $52,000 is being withdrawn from the College of Charleston for the book Fun Home, a New York Times bestseller by Alison Bechdel, which looks at her coming out as lesbian and growing up with a closeted gay father.

Two Frenchwomen gain rare accolade of Pantheon burial Posted: 21 Feb 2014 11:08 AM PST Two men and two women who fought for the French Resistance in World War Two will join France's great citizens interred in the Pantheon in Paris next year, President Francois Hollande announced on Friday. At a ceremony at Fort Mont-Valerien outside Paris, where a firing squad executed 22 resistance fighters and three high school students in 1944, Hollande said the four "embodied the values of France when she was low". Germaine Tillion and Genevieve de Gaulle-Anthonioz will join only two other women to be buried in the domed mausoleum on the Left Bank - Marie Curie and Sophie Berthelot, who refused to be buried separately from her chemist husband Marcellin Berthelot.

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