NCAA Set To Ban Text Messaging Between Recruiters And High School Students

April 26, 2007 – 7:16 am

College sports are big business, so recruiting student athletes is big business. The NCAA limits the times coaches and recruiters can call or visit athletes, but text messages are all fair game. For now.
The Chronicle of Higher Education explained in an October 2006 story:
Before Chandler Parsons committed to play basketball for the University of Florida, [...]

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Middlebury College vs. Wikipedia

February 21, 2007 – 11:05 pm

Middlebury College is proud to have taken a stand against Wikipedia this year:
Members of the Vermont institution’s history department voted unanimously in January to adopt the statement, which bans students from citing the open-source encyclopedia in essays and examinations.
Without entirely dismissing Wikipedia — ?whereas Wikipedia is extraordinarily convenient and, for some general purposes, extremely useful…? [...]

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