| Colleges are now banning hoverboards from their campuses Posted: 10 Jan 2016 02:15 PM PST  If you're looking for a faster way to get from your dorm room to that class all the way across campus, don't look to the hoverboard. Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. just became the latest in a string of colleges to ban the devices from their campuses, citing the risk of spontaneous combustion as their rationale. It's the latest in a series of setbacks for these improperly named gadgets (they don't actually, you know, hover ) — late last year, airlines prohibited passengers from bringing hoverboards aboard their planes, and Amazon went so far as to advise people to throw them away altogether. And while college students may be known for their risky behavior, this is one hazard that universities are clearly unwilling to take on. As per a report from the Associated Press, some 20 American institutions have now banned these motorized scooters altogether. "It's clear that these things are potentially dangerous," Len Dolan, managing director of fire safety at Kean University in Union, New Jersey, told the AP. "These things are just catching fire without warning, and we don't want that in any of our dorms," he continued. Although some colleges have only banned the boards from dorms, others have prohibited them across campus, and it seems that more schools may soon follow suit. From Louisiana to Ohio to our nation's capital, students are being told to leave their boards at home. And outside of colleges, hoverboards are outlawed on the streets of New York and come with considerable regulations in California. Related : U.S. Marshalls raid a Chinese hoverboard maker's booth at CES While this may seem like something of an overreaction, it's worth noting that the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission is currently investigating some 28 fires across 19 states, all of which have been linked to hoverboards. Still, students are none too pleased about the new rules. "Honestly I was really disappointed," Bryce Colegrove, a sophomore at Shawnee State University in Ohio, which recently banned hoverboards, told the AP. "I don't think it's right to ban them. I mean, it's a college campus; it's not a high school." Also watch: Raimond de Hullu's vision for Oas1s green buildings Please enable Javascript to watch this video
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| These Are the States Where College Students Are Hardest Hit by Tuition Hikes Posted: 10 Jan 2016 01:44 PM PST  Slashed funding for state schools and skyrocketing tuition. Public universities tend to pass costs on to students, who end up borrowing an average of $30,000 to cover the upward-spiraling price of a diploma.
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| Will California's booming economy pay off in pupil spending? Posted: 10 Jan 2016 10:00 AM PST  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Soaring tax revenues have carried per-pupil education spending in California beyond where it stood before the recession, but even the record sum proposed by Gov. Jerry Brown is unlikely to reverse the state's standing as a comparative miser when it comes to investing in public schools, advocates and education officials said.
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