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Eco Preservation Society. A Labor Of Love On Campus: One Senior's Struggle To Save Her College Newspaper | LearnVest Blog. We know the newspaper industry has suffered since the dawn of electronic media, but odds are that the newspaper of your alma mater hasn’t escaped unscathed either. Our sustained economic downswing has made operations more difficult for small businesses in general, let alone those run by full-time, unpaid students working to keep their campuses informed. Whether your paper was a massive enterprise like The Harvard Crimson or small-time publication with a readership base of a few hundred, the college newspaper has seen better days.

My college newspaper, The Williams Record, has been far from exempt. We’ve covered our own fiscal difficulties in a series of articles explaining a deficit of several thousand dollars, dropping revenue, and troubles integrating the books between student and administrative files. As the editor-in-chief, I now have a greater responsibility to generate money in a decidedly bear market. The Newspaper Depends On The College We’re Strategizing To Stay Afloat 1. 2. 3. Harvard students protest New Republic editor - War Room. Students, Welcome to College - Parents, Go Home. The Way We Live Now - Home-Schooling for the Techno-Literate. A Women's College That Wants to Change the World. Jane Dammen McAuliffe, president of Bryn Mawr Beginning Thursday, Bryn Mawr, the women’s college in Pennsylvania, will convene a conference to explore the role of women’s colleges in improving the lives of women worldwide. Jane Dammen McAuliffe, the college’s president, spoke to me during a recent visit to The Times about the conference, which is pegged to Bryn Mawr’s 125th anniversary.

We have since exchanged a few questions and answers by e-mail, and I thought our discussion — which you’ll find below — might spark some conversation on The Choice, particularly among young women and their families. So please use the comment box below to weigh in on the state of women’s colleges — not just Bryn Mawr — and their future. Questions and answers have been edited. — Jacques Steinberg In our conversation we talked about how disturbing it is that in the 21st century women continue to suffer from systemic oppression and brutalization across the globe. Please use the box below to comment on Ms.