2008 Woodie Awards
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Several student organizations, Arizona State University Campus Dining and a contingent of student volunteers have teamed up behind this common notion to harvest the fruit from hundreds of trees on ASU's campuses to be donated to on-campus dining halls.
A new study finds our generation, and America, is losing touch with nature. Could it be that our videophilia - the love of Xboxes, HDTVs and anything digital - is actually separating us from the world?
"Undocumented" students, those who are born on American soil, but from immigrant parents, are caught in the middle of some serious socio-political crossfire and, as Yvonne Watterson explains, it's a much larger issue than what we're seeing today. As principal of Gateway Early College High School, Watterson decided to share her undocumented student's thank-you letters with members of the community whose financial support and donations allowed them to keep taking college classes, despite being declined for in-state tuition.
When I was a young child, probably around the age of four or five, I went to the local Cost Cutters to get a haircut. My parents were gracious enough to let me choose how I wanted to do my 'do, and there wasn't really any hesitation on my part. I confidently reached into my pocket, pulled out a trading card featuring my childhood hero, Suns star Kevin Johnson, and pointed to his gloriously coiffed fade.
Ever since I can remember I have always labeled myself "a hopeless romantic," and now at the age of 24, I find myself in a whole new predicament. I am terrified of falling in love. In fact, I am slightly terrified of the word "love" in general. Am I some freak of nature? Now that I am on the edge of falling hard, all I want to do is run back in the opposite direction through miserable relationship after miserable relationship, hiding there until this blows over.
More than half of college students in campus organizations have experienced hazing despite the fact that the practice is banned practically everywhere, a new national survey has found. The study, released this week, didn't limit its focus to the usual suspects - fraternities, sororities and varsity sports teams.
When classes resumed after the slayings at Northern Illinois University, anxious students showed up at the campus counseling office seeking to talk to someone who was a good listener - someone calm, someone furry. They wanted to see the dogs. In the aftermath of the terrorizing Feb.
