For the week of May 29, 2010:

UC Berkeley offers to test all freshmen’s DNA in the Fall. Officials were caught off guard as to the concern about the plan. The LA Times reported on June 1, 2010.

Who Needs Google? Students Still Use Phone Hotline from NPR on June 1

Tennessee works hard to make sure most of the core curriculum will transfer between schools. Report in The Tennessean on May 31, 2010

At least 1 school is changing how they do admissions to save students from stressing out. University of Washington changes freshman admission policy reported on June 1 from Business Journal

A followup from an article we discussed in Episode 11: Students will not be punished for spelling out questionable words in their farewell edition of The Daily Utah Chronicle according to the Salt Lake Tribune on May 26, 2010

Another follow up from Episode 8: A Virginia prosecutor has apologized to The Breeze, the student newspaper at James Madison University, and agreed to pay the publication $10,000 to resolve a dispute over authorities’ seizure of hundreds of photographs of a campus party in an attempt to identify students who became violent during the event. Student Press Law Center on June 1, 2010

Ban On Ethnic Studies Divides Educators in Arizona. Listen to the interview or read the discussion from NPR on May 24

British student fined over a web site that offered to help find a love connection in the library. The site quickly became a success and just was fast was closed when university administrators asked that the student shut it down. The Wired Campus section of The Chronicle brings us this on June 1, 2010

A professor in the Department of Informatics in the Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences at University of California, Irvine has written a book about her social experiences with World of Warcraft. Listen to her interview or read her book

Another ereader to hit the market. This one is called Kno. No price is given so details for the product look to be still in development

Site of the Week: FlatWorld Knowledge

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