Tuesday, August 1, 2017

Coach Shakes Hands Of Imaginary Players After Opposing Team Snub

The Siena Saints defeated the Rider Broncs, 78-68, in a fight-marred college basketball game Tuesday night.


Clearly, there were some bruised feelings afterward.


Rider’s players refused to shake hands according to the customary postgame gesture. But that didn’t stop Siena’s Coach Jimmy...

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Robert S. McElvaine: Alabama Wins Electoral College, Declared National Champion

In accordance with its constitution, the College Football Playoff Foundation declared Alabama the National Champions late last night, after the team led Clemson at the end of three of the four quarters, thus winning the electoral votes of those quarters.


Crimson Tide Coach Nick Saban...

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Thursday, July 27, 2017

Parenting a College Student: Lessons From Mencius' Mom

How do you parent when your child leaves home for college? Distance “Tiger Mom-ing” and “Helicopter Parenting” become more difficult. You can rely on check-ins, daily calls, Skype, Facebook — but those are no substitute for the ease of communication and...

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The Most 'Swiped Right' College Campuses, According To Tinder

The dating app Tinder crunched the data on which campuses have the most men and women “swiped right” on, and found some interesting results.


Tinder lets users pick whether they like someone’s profile by swiping right — a swipe left means they are rejecting the...

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Musings From College Mom | HuffPost

I am in the sixth year of parenting college kids. Two sons are heading to college, I have two more years to go. It gets easier. But this is what I wrote after that very first year of college when older brother began:
April 30 marks the last day of my older son’s freshman year of...

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For A Day, Broke Students Win

In a world of mass shootings, Brexit, and a looming dramatic presidential election, the deliberations of the U.S. Department of Education’s National Advisory Committee on Institutional Quality and Integrity (NACIQI), in a nondescript meeting room at the DoubleTree Crystal City in...

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6 Things You Better Not Say To A High School Senior In March

March is the month of decisions for college-bound high school seniors. It’s when colleges let applicants know whether they’ve been deemed worthy of occupying a 6-by-6 dorm room shared with three others while their parents take out a second mortgage on their home to afford...

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