President Barack Obama, courting young voters crucial to his reelection,
told a rowdy college-age crowd at the University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill on Tuesday that he knows first-hand about the burden of
student loans because he only managed to pay his back a scant eight years ago.
"Michelle and I, we've been in your shoes," Obama, who turns 51 in
August, told a cheering, capacity crowd of 8,000 at Carmichael Arena.
"Check this out, all right. I'm the president of the United States. We only finished paying off our student loans
off about eight years ago. That wasn't that long ago. And that wasn't
easy--especially because when we had Malia and Sasha, we're supposed to
be saving up for their college educations, and we're still paying off
our college educations," he said.
SUMMERVILLE, S.C. — A 2-month-old child was killed and dismembered by
a dog in his family’s South Carolina home Friday as his father slept,
authorities said.
Aiden McGrew’s mother called 911 when she got home around 11
a.m. and discovered the boy’s leg was severed by a retriever mix the
family had taken into the home a few weeks earlier, Dorchester County
deputies said.
On 93.5 KDay FM this week, after radio hosts Tattoo and Cee Cee
asked Knight about the allegations that he killed the iconic rapper,
Knight responded, “People say, ‘God is going to judge me,’ but I got a
45-inch bullet in to my skull from grabbing, pulling him [Tupac] down
[when shots were fired].”
“The person who supposedly cremated Tupac … this guy got about 3 million
dollars .. personally from me … cash … and next thing I know I never
heard from the guy or seen him again … he retired and left.”
When one of the hosts asked if he had ever seen Tupac’s body after he was killed, Knight added:
“Nobody seen Tupac dead…. Maybe the question is…Pac’s not really dead…Pac’s somewhere else.”
There’s an atmosphere of grand fragility hanging over America’s
colleges. The grandeur comes from the surging application rates, the
international renown, the fancy new dining and athletic facilities. The
fragility comes from the fact that colleges are charging more money, but
it’s not clear how much actual benefit they are providing.
Colleges are supposed to produce learning. But, in their landmark study,
“Academically Adrift,” Richard Arum and Josipa Roksa found that, on
average, students experienced a pathetic seven percentile point gain in
skills during their first two years in college
and a marginal gain in the two years after that. The exact numbers are
disputed, but the study suggests that nearly half the students showed no
significant gain in critical thinking, complex reasoning and writing
skills during their first two years in college.
Colleges today are certainly less demanding. In 1961, students spent an
average of 24 hours a week studying. Today’s students spend a little
more than half that time — a trend not explained by changing
demographics.
Here’s what you probably already
know about yoga: It can flatten your tummy, tone your arms, and calm your
thoughts when your mind is acting like an untamed monkey. But beyond these
body-and-mind makeover benefits, few people realize that specific poses may be
able to cure all kinds of mental and physical aches and pains, too.
