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Fall 2013 Undergraduate Assembly Elections


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Students at Stanford are tackling the question of what the college experience will look like in the 22nd century.  As part of a thought experiment in 2013, student from the Institute of Design at Stanford thought of four ways in which institutes of higher education will look like in the future.  One idea the students came up with is changing the time frame from four years of education to six years, which students would be able to use at any point during their lifetimes — that is, they can attend school for four years, leave to work, then return for their two final years at any point in they wanted.





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Which Philadelphia university is the safest? Billy Penn answered that question with some helpful data. Billy Penn used data from 2011-13 to look at the level of crime at six Philly universities -- Penn, Temple, Drexel, Saint Joseph's, Villanova and La Salle.







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Harvard and Penn aren't the only schools to announce their Commencement speakers. George Washington revealed that Apple CEO Tim Cook will give the address at the University's Commencement on May 17 while Winston Salem State announced the Grammy and Oscar-winning rapper Common will speak at their graduation on May 15. Cook, who has been Apple's CEO since 2011, holds the distinction of being the first openly gay CEO of a Fortune 500 company, coming out last October.  “I know our graduating students will be inspired and enlightened by his reflections on the lessons he has garnered from his distinguished career as a highly effective leader at the forefront of technological innovation," George Washington President Steven Knapp said in a press release. Meanwhile, Common is coming off his Oscar victory alongside John Legend for their song "Glory" for the Academy Award-nominated film "Selma."  For more on Cook, check out the GW Hatchet. For more on Common, here's the Winston Salem Journal.




The protest centered around the issues of net neutrality and education.





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It's all fun and games until someone finds your 250 bags of heroin. A 24-year-old man was charged with third-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance after Cornell Police discovered 250 bags of heroin in his car.