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• Howard, Georgetown donate to D.C. mayor transition

  Shivan Sarna - GW Hatchet •January 27, 2011

  Two D.C. universities wrote checks in support of Mayor Vincent Gray's transition team, a fundraising report released earlier this month shows.

• Obama champions ROTC return

  Kyle Huwa - SFPA Contributor •January 26, 2011

  Wielding the Solomon Amendment, President Obama could immediately compel Stanford and other universities to allow for ROTC’s return.

• An accidentally post-partisan State of the Union

  Zach Wahls •January 26, 2011

  When Nate Silver of FiveThirtyEight described President Obama’s State of the Union address as, “smart, safe, centrist, vague, and optimistic” on Twitter, I thought he might have been joking. All State of the Union speeches are smart, safe, centrist, vague, and optimistic.

• Obama to colleges: Bring back ROTC, military recruiters

  College Fix Staff •January 26, 2011

  In Tuesday's State of the Union address, the president called on all colleges to "open their doors" to ROTC and military recruiters following the December DADT repeal.

• Does pro-choice mean pro-abortion?

  Adam Schwartzman - Dartmouth College •January 25, 2011

  The March for Life yesterday went off without a hitch. Events like this always spark a personal debate for me: can a person be pro-choice and simultaneously anti-abortion?

• Susan Collins pushes civil discourse, slams news cycle at UVA

  Rebecca Rubin - Cavalier Daily •January 25, 2011

  Collins said she came to speak about the lack of civility in politics and the threat it imposes on the well-being of our society.