CHARLOTTESVILLE — A student who attended a February 2010 party at the University of Virginia testified that he heard a woman’s voice yelling “help me, help me” and opened a door to see George Huguely V with his arm around Yeardley Love’s neck. Read full article > >

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Business Secretary Vince Cable is in a political stand off after his nomination for the university access chief was turned down by MPs.

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Measuring blood pressure in both arms should be routine, says a University of Exeter study, because it is the difference between the arms that counts.

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‘Take both arms’ blood pressure’

MIAMI — Former House speaker Newt Gingrich on Wednesday mocked as an “Obama-level fantasy” Mitt Romney’s plan to deal with illegal immigration by encouraging “self-deportation.” Gingrich made the comment as he began a day of outreach to Florida’s Hispanic voters with an extensive interview on Spanish-language television and a speech at Florida International University in which he called for a more a forceful U.S. role in ending communist rule in Cuba, as well as an overhaul of U.S. economic policies toward all of Latin America. Read full article > >

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Washington and Lee University will hold classes Monday over the objections of David Knoespel and some of his law school classmates, who unsuccessfully petitioned their institution to shut down for the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday. Read full article > >

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The growth of an embryo during the early stages of pregnancy has an impact on its risk of miscarriage, says a University of Nottingham study.

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Georgetown University is rated one of the “10 most hipster campuses.” Catholic University is home to not one, but two of the “15 best dorms in the country.” And Johns Hopkins University made a list of 25 well-regarded schools deemed “least rigorous.” Wait, really? One of the region’s most selective universities — a world-renowned research institution that warns teaching assistants about the intense competitiveness of its undergraduates and has four Nobel laureates on its faculty — is accused of not being rigorous? Read full article > >

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Number of lists ranking colleges proliferate — and some don’t make sense

Four out of five men confess to being unhappy about their body, suggests an online survey by the University of the West of England.

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Men ‘unhappy with beer bellies’

Northeastern University, based in Boston, opened its first satellite campus, which combines virtual and in-person instruction, this year in Charlotte, N.C. Seattle is next.

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BERKELEY, Calif. — Across the nation, a historic collapse in state funding for higher education threatens to diminish the stature of premier public universities and erode their mission as engines of upward social mobility. At the University of Virginia, state support has dwindled in two decades from 26 percent of the operating budget to 7 percent. At the University of Michigan, it has declined from 48 percent to 17 percent. Read full article > >

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UC-Berkeley and other ‘public Ivies’ in fiscal peril

Debra Messing and her husband, writer-producer Daniel Zelman, have separated after more than a decade of marriage. People magazine has reported that the couple — parents to a 7-year-old son, Roman — separated privately earlier this year. The news was not shared publicly until yesterday. Messing, 43, and Zelman, 44, first met when both were pursuing graduate degrees in acting at New York University during the early 1990s. They married in September of 2000. Read full article > >

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Debra Messing and her husband, writer-producer Daniel Zelman, have separated after more than a decade of marriage. People magazine has reported that the couple — parents to a 7-year-old son, Roman — separated privately earlier this year. The news was not shared publicly until yesterday. Messing, 43, and Zelman, 44, first met when both were pursuing graduate degrees in acting at New York University during the early 1990s. They married in September of 2000. Read full article > >

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ORLANDO, Fla. — The state medical examiner’s office has ruled that the death of a Florida A&M University drum major last month was a homicide after concluding that the student was severely beaten in a hazing incident and died within an hour. The Orange County Sheriff’s Office issued a statement Friday evening saying it planned to work with the State Attorney’s office “to identify the charges that are applicable” in the death of 26-year-old Robert Champion. Read full article > >

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Death of Florida A&M drum major in suspected hazing incident ruled homicide