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Really, the thing I'm most proud about is, he continues to get better each year that he's been in college. He's a terrific kid, but he's a better teammate for our program.

He's a great guy and he's been a great mentor for me. I looked up at him when I was a college player and he has helped me to be a better player.

As compared with the college politician, the real article seems like an amateur.

This is one of the great intersectional rivalries in college football, and for the first time in quite some time it's a game of national significance. I expect a very high-scoring game with three or four plays making the difference.

He's one of the best shooters in college basketball and he's a clutch player. He rose to the occasion tonight like I knew he would.

It was a completely different time for me. Now, the children are all grown ... They are all starting their families and well into their own lives. I thought if I was ever going to college, this would be the time to do it,

This is a bigger game than most because of the historic and traditional aspect of their program. They are one of the storied programs of college basketball.

Apples are expensive, and from what I'm aware, almost 95 percent of computer labs in Indiana's high schools are PC. So it's a shame for some of these students to leave college, hit the work force and be stuck with something that may or may not be compatible with what their students will be using.

Over the last three years at Connecticut, I have played with, and against, the highest level of competition in college basketball. I feel now is the time for me to explore the option of testing my basketball skills against the best players in the world.

We still talk to this day. We had a real close relationship and used to hang out as friends and everything. It's fun seeing them before and after the game, seeing how they've progressed and developed in college.

Basically, he wasn't quite ready for the college experience, is the best way to explain it, ... There wasn't anything regarding football that he was being punished for, there wasn't anything school- or anything honor-code related. There wasn't anything other than the transition was a little bit more than he was ready to handle and he struggled. He just wasn't quite ready. I like him and I want what's best for him and his family. I'll support him any way that I can.

We see a lot of college students. It's a huge tailgating day. It's a party. At Camden we get 50,000 people there. A lot of them don't know what's going on, but they see it and get interested, so hopefully it promotes the sport.

The ankle is not doing any better. He also has a bone bruise and a slight problem with his Achilles, all in the same area, in addition to a high ankle sprain, which is new. Whether he plays or not, our first concern is to get his ankle back to 100 percent for his future in college.

The thing that bothered me when I was in college was that I saw myself rejecting the way of life that got me to where I was.

We'll do, among other things, two performances in King's College, Cambridge, of Bach and a special program of Mozart's sacred music.

He only played one year of college football -- 12 plays. Six plays at tight end and six plays at defensive end.

Baltimore's often called the most northern Southern town. It has a distinct essence. It's definitely post-industrial, definitely Rust Belt, very working-class. I grew up outside of Washington, and I felt I was moving to a completely different place when I moved 30 miles north out of college.

The Indian Ocean tsunami occurred during their high school senior year, and Hurricane Katrina hit the southern Gulf Region in August, as many students began college. This widespread rise in student attitudes reflecting social concerns and civic responsibility could be a reaction to the worst global and national disasters witnessed in their lifetime.

I did music when I was leaving high school and going to college. I had to make a decision between football and music. I started playing pro ball four years ago. It's been really hard to manage both of them. If you focus on one thing, you'll do better. I put music on the back burner, hopefully one day ... I may pursue it.

Coached students are only slightly more likely to have test score gains than those who were not coached. The College Board strongly recommends preparing for the SAT for free.

We don't have a problem pushing the ball up the court and taking a shot off of two passes. It would just be something to get used to. I don't think it would hurt the game at all, especially with the girls that want to play in college.

This game was all about the 3-point line and our ability to guard it. They made very, very timely 3-point shots. ... The great equalizer in college basketball is the 3-point line. It's the No. 1 stat I look at.

They are obviously a really good team and especially in The Pit. They play with more confidence at home. They shoot the ball better at home. And probably like most teams in college basketball, they have a lot of confidence from their crowd.

I was going to be an architect. I graduated with a degree in architecture and I had a scholarship to go back to Princeton and get my Masters in architecture. I'd done theatricals in college, but I'd done them because it was fun.

Everybody in the soccer community has jumped onboard. Regardless of our individual agendas at the youth clubs and the college level and beyond, everybody has kind of embraced it and it's united the soccer community.

State College is very fortunate in that it was able to identify this problem and react to it appropriately. I don't know if that's the case in other places across the country.

The boomers' kids have gone off to college, and they are looking for somebody to fill the void in the house, ... It's also the young professionals who are putting off having families, and are looking for companionship.

Children now are pretty much forced to go to college.

When it came time to go to college, I had been accepted for Harvard when my father was offered the position of head of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company office on the west coast, and we moved to San Francisco.

By the time I reached high school my father's grocery store had made our life adequately comfortable and I was able to choose, without any practical encumbrances, the subjects that I wanted to pursue in college.

I ended up in college by accident. Everything in my life, I ended up in by accident. I was down south in this high school doing whatever. It could just not contain me. I quit school and took off and traveled around. Nobody knew where I was I just couldn't handle it anymore. It was a big scandal, I was gone. I left.

It's appalling -- it's really astounding. Only 31 percent of college graduates can read a complex book and extrapolate from it. That's not saying much for the remainder.

Alcohol abuse is the leading cause of death on college campuses,

I think everybody was disappointed Friday. I don't ever want this program to be satisfied playing in the NIT. That is not our goal. But the NIT is a great tournament, the longest running tournament in college basketball. We're excited to be playing in it. There is always a positive in everything and the positive in this is that we get to play at home again.

The resolution is going through Campus Safety and to the administration that it affects. We're hoping to reach a compromise with administration that as long as there isn't suspicion of a College violation that the College will provide two forms of communication prior to coming to student's rooms.

We had been searching and hoping for some solution for the College for years. Now I know that Howards a more secular kind of guy. He told me once that its sometimes hard to distinguish between praying and whining, but this transformation is precisely what many of us have prayed for each in our own way and those prayers have been answered.

When your parents do so much to help get you through college, it's a nice bonus.

Johns experience as a college and NFL running back, as well as the coaches he has both played for and coached with, makes him an ideal person to coach our backfield. He has been successful coaching both NFL and college running backs. We are very fortunate to have him join us.

I think this is beneficial to the public. You have a lot of college students here.

One day, my youngest uncle - the other one who was first to go to college, Randy - and I were sitting out on the front porch. And he was brilliant. He ended up - he just retired from Boeing Aircraft in Wichita, Kansas.

We are so fortunate to have Heidi join our staff. Heidi has tremendous experience in the WNBA as both an assistant and as a head coach, as well as many years in the college game.

Chris has been great his fall, ... He has a great attitude on and off course. Chris has one of best short games on the team. He manages to chip more shots in than any player I have witnessed in college golf.

NYSUT is pleased to partner with a respected organization like the College Board on such an important endeavor. We are making sure every student in New York receives a world-class education, and that historically under-represented groups get every chance to succeed. The vertical teaming program is a step in the right direction.

Mark (Simpson) would have loved this tournament, because this separates the men from the boys. It was the perfect example of college kids playing a course they shouldn't have way too aggressive, and it gives you a true test of where you're at. The course next week (Southern Hills) is a little harder than this one, so it was the perfect tune-up. I just wish we could have played better while many other teams are saying that too, we certainly know we could have.

I worked as a lawyer; as a member of the teaching staff of a technical college; and then I worked principally as legal adviser to Adolf Hitler and the National Socialist German Workers Party.

We recognize that a growing portion of our population isn't Caucasian and isn't suburban, A lot of the dads who come from different countries don't have an experience with the Boy Scouts of America, so we have to explain to the parents what we do. We're also working very hard in places like the inner city. A lot of times we have to hire a scoutmaster, maybe a college student, and pay him a stipend to lead a troop.

I throw better than anybody in college and I can throw with anybody in the pros. There, that's what I think.

People who don't have a college degree often feel they have to hide that fact - even successful people.

There are many benefits of being (at CCSU). It gives them an opportunity to see what a college campus is like. It prepares them to think of an educational future beyond high school and what they should be doing now to get there.

At one point in college I was so shy that I'd drop out of a class if asked to speak in front of other people.