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• Cornell proposes ban on freshman drinking at fraternities

  Oliver Renick - SFPA Member •October 11, 2010

  Cornell wants to stop freshmen drinking -- so they're banning freshmen drinking at frats.

• Safety with alcohol, STIs lost on students in hookup culture

  Sarah Clark - Iowa State Daily •October 8, 2010

  More than 70 percent of college students will hook up with a casual partner in some form before they graduate.

• Caught spying on student, FBI demands GPS tracker back

  Kim Zetter - Wired.com •October 8, 2010

  A California student got a visit from the FBI this week after he found a secret GPS tracking device on his car, and a friend posted photos of it online.

• Video: Student who heckled Obama gets shouted down

  College Fix Staff •October 8, 2010

  President Obama appeared at Bowie State, a historically black college, in Maryland yesterday to stump for Gov. Martin O'Malley.

• Columbia launches dedicated Center for Palestine Studies

  Samantha Jean-Baptiste - Columbia Spectator •October 8, 2010

  The center says their goal is promoting and advancing Palestine studies in a wide range of subjects.

• ASU student not expelled for adult-film — but could have been

  Anna Swenson - Fix Contributor •October 8, 2010

  The rumor was that an Arizona State student had been stripped of her $32,000 scholarship, possibly expelled for flashing her student ID in an adult film.