The change at CUNY’s top colleges among incoming freshmen comes a decade after the university ended open enrollment and confirms predictions made by opponents during the battle over admissions.

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A father who lost his son to leukaemia is calling for schools and colleges to make a lesson on donating stem cells, blood and organs part of the curriculum.

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The finals week is approaching for some of us students and I thought to cheer us up and inspire us by humoring the education system, I Heart Iran style. A few weeks ago, Hamid Reza Haji-Babayi, Iranian minister of education proposed his brilliant idea. He called for further gender segregating the schools (in Iran only private kindergartens and some colleges are co-ed). Only this time, the text books for all grades and levels should be gender specific. Immediately after his remarks, Persian blog sphere filled with suggestion for Mr. Minster and his ideal text books. Here are a few: Math for Boys: 2+2=4 or even 5, who cares! Math for Girls: 2 stems of flowers added by two more becomes a bouquet that we will gift to our dear mother. Geography for Boys: If you hold your right hand toward the East and your left hand toward the West, the North will be in front of you, while the south is behind you. Geography for Girls: If you can distinguish between your right and left hand, you are better off getting married and make the Mr. Minister happy since he has expressed his interests in lowering the marriage age for female students. English for Boys: Present tense: I want to go to the garden with my friends. English for Girls: Present tense: I want to go to the kitchen and cook dinner for my husband. Philosophy for Boys: Socrates was always after the truth and is named “martyr for the truth.” Philosophy for Girls: Socrates’ wife was always after “the martyr of the truth” and made his life miserable. Physics for boys: The relation between the object distance (p), the image distance (q), and the focal length (f) of a thin lens is (1/p) + (1/q) = 1/f Physics for girls: When reflecting your image in the mirror, there must be a relation between beauty, piety and taking care of your husband. A page from the 3rd grade Persian books depicts the story of “The Devoted Farmer” who burned his clothes and blocked the coming train to warn the operator about the fallen rocks. The humorous Iranians suggested that for girls text books, his image be replaced by a woman who cannot burn her Hijab and clothes. Though she cannot save the train and its passengers, she saves her piety and dignity as a good Muslim woman who does not undress in public.

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Harvard is one of the latest colleges where students are holding Sex Weeks, seeking to bridge the gap between classroom and bedroom.

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College Students Opening Up Conversations About Sex

Of all the crackups by coaches this week, one was more disappointing than all the others, and it wasn’t Bobby Petrino going “Easy Rider” into a ditch after losing control of his gearshift . We’ve seen things like that before. For some reason, the more disheartening crash was that of Baylor women’s basketball coach Kim Mulkey, embarrassed by NCAA sanctions fresh off her national championship. Read full article > >

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Baylor’s Kim Mulkey dropped the ball on protecting game’s integrity

Brittney Griner just led Baylor to a 40-0 record and a national championship . She’s an attractive woman with a quick smile, a well-spoken representative of her university who is quick, in every interview, to deflect credit to her less-known – and lesser abused – teammates, and who will return for her senior year in college rather than pursue a professional career. Read full article > >

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Brittney Griner’s gender? Shame on those who even ask the question.

In a move that has raised questions about the obligations of community colleges, Santa Monica College has said it will raise the tuition for the classes that students most need to get into.

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RALEIGH, N.C. — A spirited run through the NCAA women’s basketball tournament concluded resoundingly on Tuesday for second-seeded Maryland , which was unable to overcome a double-figure deficit in the first half that kept expanding during an 80-49 loss to No. 1 seed Notre Dame in the Raleigh Region final at PNC Arena. Read full article > >

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RALEIGH, N.C. — A spirited run through the NCAA women’s basketball tournament concluded resoundingly on Tuesday for second-seeded Maryland , which was unable to overcome a double-figure deficit in the first half that kept expanding during an 80-49 loss to No. 1 seed Notre Dame in the Raleigh Region final at PNC Arena. Read full article > >

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Maryland women’s basketball is blown out of NCAA tournament by Notre Dame in Raleigh Region final

RALEIGH, N.C. — For most college basketball teams, playing catch-up isn’t exactly a blueprint for winning. For the fifth-ranked Maryland women , it’s when they thrive. That doesn’t mean Terrapins Coach Brenda Frese prefers to be behind, but the results are indisputable when her charges are faced often with substantial deficits. Maryland’s latest offering came in an 81-74 victory over Texas A&M , when the No. 2 seed erased an 18-point shortfall to advance to the regional semifinals for the fourth time in Frese’s 10 seasons. Read full article > >

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Any veteran armchair quarterback knows that most of the NFL stars who actually play quarterback no longer remain with one team for their entire careers. But even for hardcore cynics, this week’s musical chairs-type movement in Denver was new territory. Read full article > >

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Peyton Manning, Tim Tebow take spins on NFL’s cutthroat carousel

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Regardless of what’s ahead for Georgetown in the coming days and weeks, seniors Jason Clark and Henry Sims are assured of leaving the Hilltop knowing what it’s like to win an NCAA tournament game. Read full article > >

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NCAA basketball tournament: Georgetown silences Belmont threat, 74-59

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Georgetown Coach John Thompson III isn’t hiding from the fact his Hoyas were bounced in the opening round of the NCAA tournament the last two years. Nor is he turning it into a crusade, haranguing his players with rants about the peril of failing to guard hot-shooting underdogs from upstart mid-majors such as Ohio and Virginia Commonwealth . Read full article > >

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NCAA tournament 2012: Georgetown aims to accelerate past early exits

Kansas forward Thomas Robinson should be college basketball’s national player of the year . Biased? As a KU alum, sure I am. But there are good statistical arguments for Robinson. In eight games against ranked opponents this season – seven were top six teams at the time – Robinson averaged 19.8 points (shooting 56 percent from the field and 76 percent from the line) and 12.3 rebounds. The junior’s overall averages were 18 points a game and 11.9 rebounds; he’s had 22 double-doubles this season. Read full article > >

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Kansas’s Thomas Robinson near the end of emotional run