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    Implications of Mentally Pampering Students Over the past few years, the environment of American college campuses has changed drastically. More so than ever before, students and faculty must be extremely careful over their words and actions because of the recent trend of protecting students from anything that can offend them or cause them discomfort. The young men and women who are currently attending these institutes of higher learning will be the next generation of leaders in real-world politics

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    The alarming increase in sexual assault among male and female students is a source of concern. Despite improvements in the general statistics on rape cases, the college setting remains to be the hot bed of sexual assault, especially among the female counterparts (Allen, 2007). A victim, regardless being a male or a female, never feel safe in their life as something precious was taken from them once. Statistics show that 17.6% of women are likely to be victims of rape in their entire lifetime while

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    hush-hush. Students have pushed the boundaries of their respective school’s policies on transgender rights and have forced these institutions to institute policies to address these issues of equality on campus. My research will highlight the myriad of ways that higher education has addressed transgender rights on their campuses. The Department of Education (under President Obama) set out a policy under Title IX that defined how schools are required to treat transgender students. Colleges and universities

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    Lately Brevard College was named one of the safest colleges in America, but the real question is are we really safe at Brevard College? For a school that has a tuition of $38,000 and at least 800 students and the campus size of 120 acres of land, there is only a couple campus security guards strolling around this campus and strolling an off campus resident. Two years ago, there was a problem with some females getting stalked and almost assaulted on campus. Until this day, we have yet to find the

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    Why should students pay millions in textbooks if they’re already paying millions in tuition money just for classes and money? Students should know that they are being forced into this textbook monopoly. There for we need to enforce a plan to change the way this scam is working. There should be a easer access to books rather than spending their life savings on these books. Students are being taken advantage by local bookstores that supplies for college like textbooks. By saying that oh this textbook

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    College students deal with many things while they are attending on campus. Some of them, first time far from home, need to worry about many things which they did not before such as food, financial problem. Yet they are just minor concern comparing to the big issue that extremely affects their academic and future life. Domestic violence has been a serious issue among college students that have been experiencing of being verbal, physical, emotional or sexual abuse, and consequently, they heavily suffer

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    Communication Plan to Revive Feminism Among College Women The National Organization for Women (NOW) has requested a strategic communication plan that will convince young women to identify as feminist and will enable them to connect the many issues that affect their lives with the work of feminism. The following first describes the goals of the campaign more fully. It will then describe the challenges, obstacles, and opportunities involved in accomplishing these goals. Strategic research will be

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    Is it possible to be a serious student while also being a productive athlete? Introduction There have been athletes who excelled in classes and on the field. The article demonstrating that some athletes were being given fake grades from attending fake classes. The position taken is that serious students can also be productive athletes. The students taking fake classes were lazy, and they were only interested in pursuing athletic goals. Students should be well informed of the benefits of education

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    food I am interested to learn why so many students at UCR don’t take food waste into consideration. I imagine that many UCR students are uninformed, overestimate the amount of food they intend to consume, and don’t have the time or means to reflect on the harmful effects of food waste. According to an article by Linda Poon “The average college student generates 142 pounds of food waste a year, according to Recycling Works, a program in Massachusetts, college campuses as a group throw out a total of

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    Most of my academic career felt like I was training for a marathon. I had been training and conditioning myself for college since middle school, choosing the most rigorous classes, spending weekends doing community service and only hanging out with the “right” crowd of peers– the kind of students who had the same aspirations of attending top notch universities and respectable careers. But senior year of high school with the finish line in sight I wanted to drop out of the race. Suddenly, everything

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