Posts Tagged with ‘students’

Yesterday's big news in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area was the walkout of students at Eden Prairie High School as a protest over the punishment of several students for activities discovered when administration was alerted to photos of students on Facebook “in possession of, or consuming, illegal substances,” according to the school's Principal Conn McCartan.
Forty-two students were questioned after school administrators saw the photos, and 13 of those students were punished under rules set out by the majority of Minnesota [...]

If you’ve been following Yahoo! developments as of late - including the company’s bout with a US Congressional panel earlier this week concerning its collaboration with Chinese authorities in nabbing reporter/dissident Shi Tao, who was sentenced to 10 years imprisonment as a result – you might have been surprised about its announcement Tuesday of a preview release of a new college-student-and-alumni-specific professional networking website, dubbed Yahoo! Kickstart.
I myself am puzzled about the debut, particularly as it means Yahoo! [...]

The British government is fed up with all the complaints it’s gotten from school kids and their parents about the persistent bullying going on inside the halls of the nation’s educational institutions. Mind you, it’s not the traditional threat of the wedgie that’s got Downing Street on the offense. It’s the kind now done en mass by kid tyrants across the land thanks to the now ubiquitous technological conveniences of Internet-connected PCs and cellular phones.
Yes, the cyber wedgie is what’s [...]

In the wake of the most devastating and violent events at Virginia Tech, people worldwide seem to be restless and even grasping for how to feel and react. Obviously no one is battling with this event more so than the parents and siblings of the victims. I truly and personally am sorry for this unfathomable loss and for each and every moment of pain this has caused you folks. The only consolation I can offer each of you is my [...]

Africa is a continent with areas experiencing incredible turmoil and others undergoing economic expansion never seen before. The second most populous contiguous group of nations in the world, it is a land populated by a thousands languages ? some believe over two thousand are spoken in total. A collection of economic, cultural, social, and ecological conditions, Africa is witnessing the worst of the worst in terms of famine, disease, warfare, and genocide, but record GDPs are a regular sight as well. [...]