Archive | Campus Events
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Obama talks affordability, access for college students at U. Iowa visit
The U. Iowa Field House was a sea of black and gold as students welcomed President Barack Obama to speak on affordability and access to higher education.
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Obama speaks on tuition
President Barack Obama announced a call to Congress to stop student loan interest rates from doubling in a speech on U. North Carolina-Chapel Hill's campus Tuesday. The interest rates on subsidized Stafford student loans are set to double from 3.4 percent to 6.8 percent for 7.
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1972 presidential candidate George McGovern speaks
1972 Democratic presidential nominee George McGovern spoke Thursday at U. Oklahoma about the nation’s military involvement in Afghanistan, the current state of campaign finance and his failed big for the presidency.
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Krugman discusses global financial crisis, Europe
In a rare public appearance, professor and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman explored the similarities between the current European financial crisis and the Great Depression of the 1930s in a filled-to-capacity lecture at Princeton U. Thursday.
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Huntsman: I lost because I didn’t pander
Former presidential candidate Jon Huntsman has come a long way from getting his “ticket to ride” by finishing third in the New Hampshire primaries.
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Ron Paul advocates small government to raucous crowd
“The revolution is alive and well,” declared Texas Rep. Ron Paul, a candidate for the Republican presidential nomination, upon seeing the more than 2,000 supporters who attended his rally at U. Rhode Island Wednesday night.
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Janet Napolitano discusses role of Homeland Security
Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano delivered a lecture at the UCLA Anderson School of Management on Monday, speaking to about 350 people about the role and responsibilities of the federal Department of Homeland Security.
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Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff discusses security
General Martin E. Dempsey, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, called the current state of global security one defined by a paradox—with both increasing levels of geopolitical stability and a diffusion of access to powerful weapons—in an address at the Institute of Politics at Harvard ...
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Kissinger reminisces at Harvard
Former Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger returned to his alma mater, Harvard U., Wednesday to tell stories of negotiating with China’s Mao Tse-tung and of secretly harboring a cocker spaniel, Smoky, in his Claverly dorm room.