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Young Conservatives Group Wants Concealed Guns Allowed on University Campuses
(Austin, TX)  --  In the wake of this weeks shooting incident on the University of Texas campus, the Young Conservatives of Texas organization is once again calling on state lawmakers to pass a law allowing licensed Students, faculty, and visitors to carry concealed Handguns on state university property.  Texas law states that university campuses are "gun free zones," but the Young Conservatives of Texas say that law doesn't protect people. The request comes after 19-year...

Days After Shooting At University Of Texas, Perry Calls For Allowing Students To Carry Guns On Campus
Earlier this week, a distraught University of Texas Austin Student opened fire on campus with an Assault Rifle — locking down the entire school for hours and bringing a heavy response from local Police and Military units. The shooter eventually killed himself. As the Students and surrounding community continue to reel from the effects of the shooting, Gov. Rick Perry (R) has started advocating for allowing Students and faculty to bring Concealed carried Weapons on campus. Doing so...

Student opens fire at University of Texas, then kills himselfThe shooter, identified as 19-year-old Colton Tooley of Austin, wore a ski mask and wielded an AK-47, authorities say. No one else is reported injured.
By Richard Fausset and Nicole Santa Cruz, Los Angeles Times Reporting from Atlanta and Los Angeles A Student disguised with a ski mask and armed with an AK-47 Assault Rifle terrorized the University of Texas at Austin on Tuesday, firing a number of shots on campus before killing himself on the sixth floor of the main library, authorities said. No other injuries were reported, but the event shook the sprawling campus, which was the site of one of the most notorious school shootings in...

Texas Goveror Perry Advocates For Students Carrying Guns On Campus
The same week that a Student at the University of Texas Austin opened fire with an Assault Rifle before killing himself (and, ironically, leading to the cancellation of a talk by gun advocate John Lott), Governor Rick Perry says he wants to change state law so Students and teachers can carry Concealed Weapons on campus. Not all Students feel so good about this. “I think it would create a state of paranoia and hinder the public education system in Texas,” UTPB Student, Austin...

5 foot tall ancient penguin discovered
A giant penguin more than 5 feet tall has been discovered in Peru. The discovery contributes more evidence to the idea that a huge variety of penguin species roamed the earth 36 to 41 million years ago. But what's really exciting about this particular find, is that it includes both feathers and scales, giving researchers the opportunity to draw conclusions about the environment it lived in, including predators and lifestyle. "Insights into the colour of extinct organisms can reveal clues to...

Gov. Perry Pushes for Concealed Weapons on College Campuses
ODESSA - Under current state law, colleges and universities, like UTPB in Odessa, are gun-free zones.  That means it's illegal for anyone to bring a Weapon onto campus, licensed or not. However, days after a gunman went onto the University of Texas campus in Austin and took his own life, Governor Rick Perry says he believes Concealed Weapons should be allowed.  However, he only thinks it should be allowed if the owner is well-trained and licensed. "There are...

College Player Tweets: "Texas, Kill Yourself" After UT Shooting
Oklahoma Sooners receiver Jaz Reynolds was suspended indefinitely by head coach Bob Stoops after an offensive tweet following the shooting at UT Austin, and will miss today’s Red River Rivalry game between the Sooners and the Texas Longhorns. On Tuesday, 19-year-old Texas Student Colton Tooley fired shots from an AK-47 before entering the school’s library and taking his own life. Reynolds, an Oklahoma wideout who has yet to see the field this season, then tweeted:

5ft tall and red - penguin from 36 million years ago
SCIENTISTS have uncovered the evidence of a giant extinct penguin, which walked the earth 36 million years ago. The fossil, which includes evidence of scales and feather, was found in Peru. It shows that the giant penguin's feathers were reddish brown and grey, distinct from the black and white look of living penguins. Its size also differs from its modern counterparts - at nearly 5ft tall the new species - Inka-yacu paracasensis, or water king, is about twice the size of an emperor penguin,...

Virginia guns appear in other states' crimes
In the wake of yesterdays shooting incident at the University of Texas in which a Student opened fire and then killed himself Gun Control is once again at the forefront of public dialogue, and results from a recent study about Gun use show that Virginia could be a focal point in the ongoing debate. The study which was released Monday and conducted by Mayors Against Illegal Guns using data from the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives reveals that in 2009,...

Do Guns And College Mix?
Should Students be allowed to carry Concealed Weapons on college campuses? Yesterday, the question entered the national limelight after a 19-year-old University of Texas Student fired four rounds through the campus with an AK-47 before killing himself. No one else was hurt, the Associated Press reports . But the incident has Texas Gov. Rick Perry —a dude who goes jogging with a loaded pistol—calling for a relaxation of the state's gun-free college laws. He told the AP : There...

Ancient penguins not so well-dressed
AFP A 36-million-year-old fossil of a penguin from Peru shows the bird had feathers that were reddish brown and gray, unlike the black-and-white tuxedo appearance of today's penguins, researchers say. The new species, called Inkayacu paracasensis or water king, was nearly 1.5 meters tall or about twice the size of an Emperor penguin, the largest living penguin today, the scientists reported on Thursday. "Before this fossil, we had no evidence about the feathers, colours and flipper shapes of...

In the Wake of Student Suicides, Study Finds That Harassment Is Forcing Gay Youth Back into the Closet
The Suicide of Rutgers Student Tyler Clementi after a private encounter with a man was streamed live on the Internet has drawn national attention to the plight of LGBT Students on campuses. Another Suicide, that of Raymond Chase, a sophomore at Johnson & Wales in Providence, R.I., has amplified the growing concern that we are leaving our LGBT Students without adequate support and protection. For Sue Rankin, Associate Professor of College Student affairs in Penn State's College of Education,...

Rutgers holding silent vigil for late student
Related Articles NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. (AP) Rutgers University has planned a silent vigil to remember a Student who committed Suicide after his sexual encounter was secretly streamed online. The tribute to 18-year-old freshman Tyler Clementi will be held Sunday night on the steps of Brower Commons, on the school’s College Avenue campus in New Brunswick. Prosecutors say Clementi’s roommate and another Student used a Webcam to broadcast on the Internet live images of Clementi having...

Through conflict and poverty, students in the Occupied Palestinian Territory struggle to learn
West Bank, Occupied Palestinian Territory, 1 October 2010 - Ask principal Hanan Awwad what it is like to head the Khan al-Ahmar Elementary School and she will reply that she feels "fear and exhaustion" - but also great pride. The Ms. Awwad is afraid that her five-room School building could be demolished at any moment. Khan al-Ahmar - an ecologically-friendly School constructed two years ago by the non-governmental Italian Cooperation - was built in an area of...

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It's a common problem inside Greensburg High School that goes way back. "I was bullied several times because I was gay. I was called f**, queer. i was thrown up against lockers. I would tell the School officials about it and they would dismiss it," said a former Student who did not want to be identified. He is 21 years old now and the awful memories of High School came rushing back when he heard about Billy's Suicide.

Teachers is smart
Okay, so it appears I may have overestimated the average intelligence of teachers when I calculated it at around 90 IQ.  Mea culpa.  Now, here's the damning quote: "Every other Student in class accepted my lesson without argument...."   Keep in mind that's almost surely true of your public-schooled Children too, even when they are being taught that black is white and kilometers are longer than miles.

"Winnipeg students" join jihad in Pakistan, local Muslims "stressed" over ongoing investigation
There are so many better things to be "stressed" over here than feigning Victim-hood over the investigation. At the very least, they could be concerned about their co-religionists whose sons have disappeared on them. Better yet, they could be concerned for the potential Victims of the Winnipeg Jihadists. And most of all, they could and ought to be deeply "stressed" over the Islamic teachings that drive young Muslim men to wage Jihad at home and abroad. If there's so much "misunderstanding" of...

Dirty jobs, these times they are a changin..... and a dose of reality
Glenn at Instapundit has some thoughts posted about our changing society, and 'Dirty Jobs'. This video talk by Mike Rowe goes a long way towards describing the reality of it: I teach in a career and technical school. I teach about a Dirty job. I teach Students who have looked at their choices and decided paying $50,000 for an education that allows them to flip burgers, badly, is not a good path to follow. In fact, the enrollment at my school has gone up 50% in the last few years, and we now...

Student's brain in a jar horrifies former classmates
Parents from New York are suing the city after their dead son's classmates discovered his brain on display at a city morgue. Andre and Korisha Shipley lost their son in a car accident in 2005. Three months after the Funeral, though, his classmates were on a field trip to the city morgue — a group that included his former girlfriend — and they saw the young man's brain on display in a jar, the New York Daily News reports. The Shipley's were aghast, having thought they buried all of...

Kansas special-needs student crowned homecoming king
Owen Phariss on Friday night became the latest Special-needs Student to be crowned homecoming king, prompting an outpouring of cheers — and a few tears — in the stands and on the football field of his High School in Lawrence, Kan. "It was probably one of the best moments of my life along with his, too," classmate Bailey Knowlton, 18, said this morning. "I know he's going to remember this for the rest of his life." HOMECOMING: Special-needs Students named homecoming queens and kings...

College-student housing presents investment opportunities
"Demand and supply conditions for housing are bad," said David Stiff, chief Economist with Fiserv , which publishes the Case-Shiller Home Price Index. "But in College towns, demand conditions are slightly better. There's a stable source of new demand every year." There are at least three paths to investment in College housing: individually; in a partnership; or as a shareholder in one of two publicly traded Real Estate investment trusts, American Campus Communities Inc. and Education Realty...

Reading Banned Books on the Kindle «
As an avid Kindle reader, it’s left me feeling a little left out. This week the American Library Association is urging a celebration of the freedom to read, suggesting a variety of activities, many designed for schools and public libraries. (For example, “Draw a picture of the one book you would save if books were being burned…”) They suggest essay contests and discussions, and even making a poster that celebrates Students who dare to read books banned elsewhere in...

In Partisan Hearing, Democrats Attack Proprietary Colleges for Profiting While Students Fail
"For Students enrolling in for-profit schools, graduation with a degree is a possibility, but Debt without a diploma is a probability," said Harkin, who requested the data from 30 for-profit colleges as part of a continuing investigation into the sector. Sen. Michael B. Enzi of Wyoming, the top Republican on the committee, acknowledged the sector's shortcomings, but he said it was "naïve" of Democrats "to think that these problems are limited to just the for-profit sector." The senator...

Winnipeg students said to have joined jihad
Three Winnipeg Students who have disappeared in Pakistan have joined the international Jihad, a Muslim Student leader at the University of Manitoba says he was told by investigators from the Canadian Security and Intelligence Service (CSIS). "They specifically said they are going for the Jihad, they are going for religious fighting," Shariq Kidwai, former president of the U of M Muslim Students Association, said yesterday. Mr. Kidwai said CSIS investigators interviewed him about Students ...

Students and families join French pension protests
Paris (Reuters) – French families, Students and Private Sector workers joined mass demonstrations on Saturday as trade Unions ramped up pressure on the government to drop Pension Reforms. Opposition to President Nicolas Sarkozy's plan to raise the Retirement Age to 62 from 60 showed no signs of abating and hundreds of thousands across the country marched in the fourth round of rallies in as many months Unions said that about 2.9 million had marched, while police said the crowds...