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D.C. college students may lose access to residential parking
College students sometimes pay three times as much to park on campus as to receive tags to park in residential neighborhoods. One problem, however — residents aren't always happy. The D.C. Council is considering ending these recipricity tags and kicking students out of neighborhood parking spots.
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Have an extra $60,000 sitting around? Sarah Lawrence is for you!
A new survey from Campus Grotto says that the top ten most expensive colleges in America now have tuitions that top $55,000 per year. That sound you hear is your checkbook sobbing.
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GWU, Catholic University have hard-partying dorms
By now, incoming freshman have already gotten settled in their respective dorms, and more importantly, learned which dorms are the go-tos for Friday night revelry. But does your dorm make the list?
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Is the District ready for even more daily deals?
Can a country in a recession offer too many daily deals, discounts, and coupons? One company doesn't think so — and it's begun targeting District residents and especially college students with a new arsenal of discounts that place an emphasis on how walkable our dense city blocks are. TUN is partnering nationally with 7,500 merchants to offer 22,000 daily deals with the hopes that LivingSocial and Groupon haven't worn down your instinct to save a buck.
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Let the cheers, jeers begin over U.S. News' college rankings
U.S News & World Report has released its eagerly anticipated, hotly debated, and otherwise adverb-inducing rankings of the country's best colleges, and they're giving those annoying-but-promising kids at Georgetown University another excuse to walk around town with their chins held uncomfortably high in the air. The school fell one spot to 22nd, but beat out all others in the immediate D.C. area. Here's how all the region's schools fared.
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This is what the dinosaur found in College Park looked like
In 1997, a local dinosaur tracker in College Park discovered the fossil of an armored dinosaur hatchling estimated to have lived 112 million years ago, but scientists at Johns Hopkins University waited until now to tell us about it. The fossil was identified as a baby nodosaur, of the family Nodosauridae — a short, plant-eating dino with both flat and spiky plates on its back.
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That UMD football helmet that everyone mocked can be yours
Your first thought when you saw those hotly debated Maryland uniforms probably wasn't, "Man, I gotta have one of those!" But if you did, or just want to own a piece of athletic/sartorial history, here's your chance.
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Underage UMD students just had their buzz killed by the state police
The University of Maryland has a reputation for serious partying — and thus, one can assume, for underage drinking — but the state police are opposed to this for some reason, and are giving the campus police $30,000 to increase ID checks and enforce open container laws. The money will help pay for the officers' overtime hours, which will be spent attending parties and local bars as drunk, horny college kids perform the Dunkaroo and other weird drinking games.
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Zipcar targets college students with Ford partnership
Zipcar has just announced a new two-year partnership with Ford Motor Company that will be targeting more than 250 universities to encourage students to join and use Zipcar. Locally, American University, GW, and George Mason will be participating.
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Now students are 'occupying' the universities they already occupy
They're not just squatting on Wall Street or in McPherson Square anymore; protests have reached college campuses as students try to send a message to the world's top financial execs.
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Georgetown University is doing its best to become a party school
Alcohol violations at Georgetown University jumped from 334 in 2009 to 477 last year, a 30 percent spike.
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American, GWU students are very experienced at working without pay
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If you want to work on Capitol Hill, you go to Georgetown University. But what if you want to work without having to worry about silly things like paychecks and self-respect? Then George Washington and American universities are the schools for you!
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Some other things we learned from U.S. News' college rankings
Yesterday, like every other media outlet in the country, we covered the release of U.S. News & World Report's Best Colleges 2012. However, in focusing on the main event — the rankings for national universities and liberal arts colleges — we overlooked the lesser-known schools in the Washington area that landed on one or more niche lists:
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UMD basketball's new coach will see Gary Williams' name every day
The University of Maryland is rumored to announce that it will dedicate the court at the Comcast Center in honor of longtime basketball coach, Gary Williams. Hold your gasps of surprise, please.
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As a college, Georgetown is slightly worse than the Univ. of Ghent
Despite that recent, minor international incident, Georgetown University has a lot going for it: Computer geeks, future politicians, foreign students love it there, and the food's pretty good, too (according to Newsweek, anyway). Which is why we're a little baffled about the school's ranking on a new list of the world's top 300 colleges.
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GW University can't even give away the newspaper anymore
When you pay $220,000 in tuition over four years, as George Washington University students do, you expect a few amenities in return, like fancy dorms, awesome parties, easy classes and, most importantly, free newspapers. But that last perk is no more, as the administration has cut its daily delivery of the Post, New York Times, and USA Today. A spokesman for the latter paper is in denial about the reason why.
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The duality of man, as represented by UMD's new football uniforms
Imagine if two people were asked to design half of a football uniform, independent of each other, using only the state flag as a reference. Then imagine that their designs were combined, two halves making a whole. That's what the University of Maryland's new unis looks like. When two players stand face-to-face, they look like opponents rather than teammates.
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D.C. colleges groom politicians and geeks, not models
Newsweek, the aptly named magazine that prints news once a week, has published its 2011 college rankings, which rates student bodies on everything from their brains to, well, the students' bodies. We regret to inform incoming freshman that no local school made the "horniest" or "most beautiful" lists, but with 20 top-25 lists, there were plenty of questionable accolades to go around.
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