I took a trip down to my university authorized book sellers to get the prescribed textbook for the module I wanted to register for last week. Unfortunately, they did not have it, but phoned another branch to see if they do, they did. The sales person wanted to confirm that I am okay with the price, well, textbook prices these days are ridiculously ( Read more... )

Atheists give free hugs to fellow students

By JESSICA PALOMBO

Campus correspondent
Turlington Plaza, the University of Florida's hot spot for preachers of ominous messages, was the backdrop for an ideological clash Thursday afternoon.

Frank Zaccaro, toting a Bible, was screaming warnings of hell to passersby when a group of atheists tried to hug him ( Read more... )

PARIS (AFP) - Tens of thousands of French schools and universities have received copies of a Turkish book refuting Darwin's theory of evolution and describing it as "the true source of terrorism."

The education ministry said Friday that it had warned school and university directors that the textbook is not in line with the recognized curriculum ( Read more... )

I've been rather quiet this week due to second year English exam today. After an exhausting 3 hour exam (I wrote for almost the whole of 3 hours) I (a) wanted to kick myself for not going over the study guide (b) for not knowing what should be the length of the bloody essay (Not possible to write more then 4 pages for 50 marks thank you very much ( Read more... )