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• New study challenges notions about alcohol addiction, binge drinking

  Maria Mauriello - Chicago Maroon •April 18, 2011

  The study suggests binge-drinkers do so because of an increased sensitivity to its rewarding effects.

• Cornell study: ‘Organic’ label makes regular foods seem better

  Oliver Renick - SFPA Member •April 18, 2011

  Even for snack foods like chips, subjects believed the ones with the ‘organic’ label were healthier, even though they were the same.

• Outrage: Vanderbilt considering a campus in Abu Dhabi

  Theodore Samets and David Pasch - SFPA Contributors •April 18, 2011

  NYU was the first, and Vandy could be the next to open shop in a place where human rights, political and intellectual freedoms, gay rights and workers’ protections simply do not exist.

• End affirmative action at Utah State University

  College Fix Staff •April 15, 2011

  Milton Friedman stated it best: "You cannot achieve good ends by bad means."

• UVA increases tuition almost 9 percent for in-state students

  Krista Pedersen - Cavalier Daily •April 15, 2011

  These tuition raises come in the wake of the $15 million cut in state funding for the University.

• Lab safety assessed in wake of tragedy

  Amy Guan - Harvard Crimson •April 15, 2011

  Harvard’s experimental laboratories are planning to strengthen lab safety practices following the death of Yale senior Michele Dufault in a chemistry lab machine shop.