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F&M Leaders Write Guide to Help Parents Cope With the Costs of a College Education

In their respective positions as president and vice president of Franklin & Marshall College, Richard Kneedler and Alice Drum have spent years talking to parents about the value of a liberal arts education. Sooner or later, almost every conversation comes around to cost.

University Radio Station Launches Student-Run Foreign Bureau

WUEV, radio station of the University of Evansville in Indiana, launched its UK-based foreign bureau this year, just in time for student/correspondents Stacy Woodruff and Beth Nicewonger to cover the funeral of Princess Diana. The new foreign-correspondent program , developed by the university's mass communication department, is the first of its kind.

Fraternity Leaders Are the Heaviest Drinkers

Leaders of fraternities, and to a lesser extent leaders of sororities, tend to be among the heaviest drinkers and the most out-of-control partiers. A national survey of 25,411 students at 61 institutions reveals that Greek leaders are helping to set norms of binge drinking.

Childhood Wellness Program Teaches Hygiene Skills to the Homeless

Determined to reach out to homeless children and their parents, Nursing Instructor Lula Mae Phillips has created the Long Island University Childhood Wellness Program, delivering nutrition, safety and health education.

Hendrix president leads national Methodist college association

Dr. Ann H. Die, president of Hendrix College in Conway, Arkansas, has been elected president of the National Association of Schools and Colleges of the United Methodist Church.

Parents are Textbooks in Baby-Boomer History Class

Students enrolled in the modern history class "Boomers to Yuppies: American Society Since 1945" at Franklin Pierce College are required to prepare a paper, based on a series of interviews with their parents, examining important events from the 1950s to the 1980s.

New Civil Rights Class Examines Struggle First-Hand

As part of a new sociology class on civil rights, a group of students from St. Joseph's University in Philadelphia is preparing to make a pilgrimage to the deep South to study the legacy of Martin Luther King and other civil rights leaders. The new course, "The Civil Rights Movement: The Dream Will Never Die," marks the 30th anniversary of the April 4, 1968 assassination of King, as well as his January 15 birthday.

Moscow Transplant Leads College Student Republicans

A student born and raised in the former Soviet Union may not be the most likely choice to hold a leadership position in a pro-Republican organization at a small, private liberal arts college in Wisconsin in the birthplace of the Grand Old Party. Yet that's exactly where Ripon College's Dmitri Smirenski, a 19-year-old transplant from Moscow, finds himself.