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Catherine Hansberry can see at least one benefit of her alma mater listing her as dead. “I’m dead? Oh, I didn’t know that,” said a chuckling Hansberry, 24, UNH class of 2003. “Does that mean I don’t have to pay my loans anymore?” She found out Wednesday that the University of New Hampshire accidentally lists her – and 500 other living alumni – among the deceased in the 2005 alumni directory. The university apologized to alumni in an e-mail. “I kind of wonder how it happened,” said Hansberry, a long-term kindergarten substitute teacher at Bicentennial Elementary School. “It is kind...

If you're like me you've been wondering just what happened to all of those Clinton-Gore staffers and appointees. Well now you can have a definitive resource to look them up, see what they're doing and catch up on all the "old times" Click the link below and you will be able to download a 130 page pdf document full of all the names, addresses, emails and updates on all of our friends and buddies that may have worked for Clinton-Gore: CLICK HERE to DOWNLOAD the pdf file If you're like me and value those old relationships, you need to download...

MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. - Hoping to breach the walls of supposedly liberal colleges and universities with intellectual ammunition, the Center of the American Experiment recently launched a new Web site for conservative college students. Center CEO Annette Meeks said the Web site (www.intellectualtakeout.com) is the first of its kind and is intended to ''support free exchange of ideas on campus.''''The point is not to indoctrinate students,'' she said, but to ''expose students to points of view not readily available in the classroom.'' While most of the site is informational, it also has an edgier feature called the ''Daily Dish.'' The debut...

THE PETITION CANDIDATES DID IT. In a stunning--at least to their critics--upset, Peter Robinson and Todd Zywicki each won an alumni seat on Dartmouth College's board of trustees. The results were made public yesterday afternoon, following two months of electronic and mail-in voting. Chalk up another victory for the "New Media"--namely, for the conservative blogosphere. Robinson and Zywicki relied heavily on the Internet to publicize their efforts. They had been the insurgents in the race: the grassroots nominees who worked their way onto the ballot by garnering 500 signatures apiece. They entered a field with four other candidates handpicked by...

About 10 days ago we decided it was important to get a better handle on where alums stood regarding the controversies surrounding Professor Ward Churchill. We had received e-mails and phone calls from hundreds of you but felt a straw poll would give us a better picture of how alums felt about the Churchill issue. The straw poll was e-mailed to 16,120 voting Alumni Association members -- annual and lifetime members -- who have given us authorization to send them e-mails. The straw poll results are as follows: * Forty-three percent voted that Churchill should be fired or sanctioned even...

Please see the press release below. Anyone worried about political correctness, private property rights, declining standards on college campuses - there are some odious things happening right now at Colgate. Visit our new website for the details you won't hear on campus! Please help us try to reverse the tide of PC stupidity at Colgate. www.sa4c.com Students & Alumni for Colgate, Inc. P.O. Box 30 Hamilton, NY 13346 www.sa4c.com NEWS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Thursday, December 9, 2004 INFORMATION CONTACT: Christine Burtt, sa4c executive director 303.722.9958 cqburtt@att.net ALUMNI PROTEST COERCIVE PROPERTY TAKINGS AT COLGATE UNIVERSITY Colgate Demands Sale of Greek...

The relentless assault of the Supreme Court liberal justices on the United States of America continues. What made them turn against us? Why are they so harsh and callous? What did we do to them? These kinds of questions come to mind when we see the constant attacks of this band of justices we once trusted and knew as the embodiment of wisdom and character. Wondering about this endlessly only helps them gain precious time in their insidious battle against us, however. Never mind why they do it. They had the advantage of surprise. We have been milling around in...

Legislators slam A&M over legacy admissions Role of family ties in acceptance called 'institutional racism' By TODD ACKERMAN Copyright 2004 Houston Chronicle Blood ties to alumni, sometimes known as the other affirmative action, are the deciding factor in the admission of more than 300 white Texas A&M University freshmen annually, according to data provided by the school. Such students -- known as "legacy admits" -- equal roughly the overall total of blacks admitted to A&M each year. Only a handful of black students a year are admitted because of legacy points. "That's a lot of kids being advantaged because A&M...

Some alumni donors are pressuring the president's office and the Office of Development and Alumni Relations to fire Professor Nicholas De Genova for statements he made in last week's anti-war teach-in. In the past few days, donors have barraged the offices with emails and phone calls, informing the University that they feel that De Genova overstepped the limits of academic free speech. In mass-mailed email messages circulated among each other, alumni have urged each other to issue an ultimatum to the University: Fire De Genova or lose our donations. "We've gotten a lot of calls," said Thomas Gray, who is...

<p>STARKE, Fla. -- Janet Reno loves campaigning in the nooks and crannies of her home state, but even this far from the nation's capital her Clinton connections come up in the funniest of ways.</p> <p>As the candidate for governor trolled for votes on a hot July day, a man who introduced himself as "just an old redneck from Bradford County" told Reno she was a "good lookin' gal" and wondered how she escaped former President Bill Clinton's clutches.</p>