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'Monkey' Texter Hopes to Avoid Serious Penalty

ABC News On Campus reporter Miles Doran blogs: The man who confessed to accidentally sending a bizarre text-message to more than 40,000 students, faculty and staff at the University of Florida via the school's emergency alert system says he is...

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January 30, 2009 | Permalink | User Comments (0)

The Inauguration: Reflections from a College Student

ABC News On Campus reporter Ryan Calhoun blogs: As I watched and listened closely to the inauguration of President Barack Obama, one of his quotes stayed with me: "So let us mark this day with remembrance, of who we are...

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January 21, 2009 | Permalink | User Comments (1)

Postcard From Paris: Quiet Joy Over New President

ABC News On Campus reporter Nana Duffuor blogs: If it weren’t for the countless newsstands overflowing with newspapers and magazines with President Barack Obama’s face plastered on them, it would have seemed like any other day in Paris. Much as...

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January 21, 2009 | Permalink | User Comments (0)

College Republicans 'Guardedly Optimistic' About Obama

ABC News On Campus reporter Sabina Kuriakose blogs: Jeffrey D. Cappella decided it was time to put aside his differences. The Syracuse University graduate student is an ardent Republican, going so far as to describe himself as a neoconservative in...

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January 20, 2009 | Permalink | User Comments (10)

Watching the Inauguration on Laptops, in Class

ABC News On Campus reporter Marilia Brocchetto blogs: It seems as though the world stood still to sit and watch the inauguration. It's estimated that at least 750,000 people convened on the Mall in Washington, D.C. But classes at the...

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January 20, 2009 | Permalink | User Comments (3)

Eyes Glued to the Screen at ASU

ABC News On Campus reporter Emily Graham blogs: At the First Amendment forum at the Cronkite School of Journalism at Arizona State University in downtown Phoenix, there's excitement in the air. About 200 sets of eyes are glued to a...

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January 20, 2009 | Permalink | User Comments (1)

Students Cope With the Crush

ABC On Campus reporter Alexa Davis blogs: For Katie Cybul, a freshman at George Washington University, the days leading up to the presidential inauguration have been a mixed bag: Though she has been able to witness history in the making...

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January 20, 2009 | Permalink | User Comments (0)

Inauguration Excitement: A High School Student's Perspective

We woke up at 4:30 in the morning and headed to the metro, where we began a long day of jostling crowds and hectic walking. Despite this, I have not spoken to one single person who would rather be somewhere...

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January 20, 2009 | Permalink | User Comments (1)

Princeton Professor: 'America Is Still Poisoned by Racism'

ABC News On Campus reporter Matt Gelb blogs: The inauguration of Barack Obama as the nation’s first black president Tuesday can only make Martin Luther King’s message more poignant, Princeton University professor of religion and African American studies Eddie Glaude...

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January 19, 2009 | Permalink | User Comments (10)

Texas Baseball Coach Runs Into Trouble

ABC News On Campus reporter Joseph Millares blogs: Imagine my surprise this weekend to read headlines talking about a DWI arrest of a member of the University of Texas athletic program. I thought, "OK, which football player was stumbling around...

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January 19, 2009 | Permalink | User Comments (1)