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• Sex assault, drinking push colleges to moment of reckoning
• A look at how residential colleges work at some schools
• Teachers take 1,000 apples to New York governor in protest

Sex assault, drinking push colleges to moment of reckoning Posted: 22 Mar 2015 11:09 AM PDT CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — On college campuses nationwide, the intertwined problems of sexual assault and alcohol are under intense scrutiny as students increasingly speak up and the federal government cracks down. Pushed to a collective moment of reckoning, colleges and universities are trying a slew of solutions focused on education, environment and enforcement.

A look at how residential colleges work at some schools Posted: 22 Mar 2015 09:23 AM PDT Colleges are confronting the related problems of sexual assault and drinking with a mix of solutions, some aimed at changing an ingrained culture that encourages irresponsible behavior. Dartmouth College appears to be the only school responding by completely overhauling its housing into a system of "residential colleges" — a concept that goes back centuries in England but exists at only about 30 U.S. schools.

Teachers take 1,000 apples to New York governor in protest Posted: 20 Mar 2015 01:34 PM PDT Teachers from an apple-growing region in New York have delivered 1,000 of them to Gov. Andrew Cuomo (KWOH'-moh) to protest education funding levels. The teachers from the Finger Lakes say each of the shiny ...

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