Articles tagged with campus

Mon, May 21, 2012

Apple seeks support for new spaceship-like campus

By Poornima Gupta

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Apple Inc's chief financial officer is asking the residents of Cupertino, California, to support the company's ...

Fri, May 11, 2012

Insight: Salesforce's plan for opulent campus a costly debacle

By Gerry Shih and Jim Finkle

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - In early 2010, Marc Benioff, founder and chief executive of Salesforce.com, summoned several of ...

Mon, April 02, 2012

Police: Accused Oakland gunman targeted administrator, classmates

By Laird Harrison and Malathi Nayak

OAKLAND, California (Reuters) - A former student accused of killing seven people and wounding three others in a shooting ...

Mon, March 12, 2012

Peter Thiel, university-hater, heads to campus

By Gerry Shih

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Peter Thiel, the superstar Silicon Valley investor, has famously dismissed university as a waste of time and money ...

Fri, March 09, 2012

Apple to build $304 million campus in Texas, add 3,600 jobs

(Reuters) - Apple Inc is expanding its presence in Texas with a $304 million investment to build a new campus in Austin, which will add ...

Mon, March 05, 2012

Colorado court says students can carry guns on campus

By Keith Coffman

DENVER (Reuters) - The University of Colorado overstepped its authority when the school's board of regents imposed a ban on the ...

Thu, March 01, 2012

Eight alleged Penn State victims say abused on campus

By Mark Shade

HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania (Reuters) - Eight of the 10 men who prosecutors contend were sexually abused by former Penn State assistant coach Jerry ...

Thu, December 08, 2011

UPDATE: Two people killed on Virginia Tech campus

By Matt Spetalnick and Deborah Zabarenko

BLACKSBURG, VA (Reuters) - A gunman ambushed and killed a campus police officer and was later reported to have ...

Thu, December 08, 2011

Police identify gunman in Virginia Tech murder-suicide

By Rick Rothacker

BLACKSBURG, Virginia (Reuters) - The man who shot dead a campus police officer at Virginia Tech on Thursday before killing himself was ...

Fri, November 25, 2011

Occupy movement inspires rise in U.S. campus activism

By Noel Randewich

DAVIS, Calif (Reuters) - Violent confrontations between police and protesters at two University of California campuses have drawn a new cadre of ...

Wed, November 16, 2011

Penn State powerless to keep Sandusky off campus

By Ernest Scheyder

STATE COLLEGE (Reuters) - Penn State says alleged child sex abuser Jerry Sandusky is "not welcome" on its campus, but the university ...

Wed, November 16, 2011

Baltimore protesters heckle Karl Rove campus speech

By Jason Tomassini

BALTIMORE (Reuters) - Anti-Wall Street protesters heckled political strategist Karl Rove during his speech at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore Tuesday night ...

Wed, November 16, 2011

East Carolina University lifts campus lock-down

WINSTON-SALEM, North Carolina (Reuters) - East Carolina University lifted its locked-down status on Wednesday after reports of a man carrying a rifle near the campus ...

Mon, September 26, 2011

Bake sale's racial pricing rocks UC Berkeley campus

By Emmett Berg

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Student Republicans at the University of California at Berkeley have stirred up the famously left-wing campus with plans ...

Thu, August 04, 2011

Gun scare at Virginia Tech, scene of 2007 massacre

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Authorities reopened the Virginia Tech campus after an hours-long lockdown on Thursday following a report of a gunman at the university where ...

Tue, May 24, 2011

Lauded Dallas campus could help shoulder Texas school cuts

By Laurie Fox

DALLAS (Reuters) - Philip Templet listened intently and leaned in as his students debated poetic literary devices, engaging them and pushing for ...

Mon, April 18, 2011

Arizona governor vetoes birther, campus gun bills

By David Schwartz

PHOENIX (Reuters) - Arizona's Republican Governor Jan Brewer on Monday vetoed two controversial bills, one mandating proof of U.S. citizenship ...

Sat, April 02, 2011

Campus gun debate is personal at University of Texas

By Corrie MacLaggan

AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - University of Texas junior Sonia Escot was studying at her usual first-floor spot at a campus library on ...

Tue, March 29, 2011

Indiana State Presents Plan To Take Control of 4th & 5th Street Near Campus

TERRE HAUTE, Ind. (WIBQ) - ISU wants to take over some downtown streets. University officials presented the idea to some Terre Haute City Council Members ...

Fri, February 04, 2011

Facebook to unveil Menlo Park campus next week

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Facebook, which turned seven on Friday, already needs new offices.

The world's largest social network invited reporters to an event ...

Tue, December 14, 2010

Ivy Tech Adds Some New Holly Trees To Campus

TERRE HAUTE, Ind. (WIBQ) - You may notice some new trees at the entrance of Ivy Tech on Jessica Drive, on the east end of ...

Tue, November 02, 2010

New Tower To Improve Cell Phone Coverage For West Terre Haute And SMWC Campus

WEST TERRE HAUTE, Ind. (WIBQ) - A new cell tower that will go up quickly at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College broke ground will help signal throughout ...

Wed, September 15, 2010

E-textbooks expected to grow with iPad on campus

By Alex Dobuzinskis

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Video and color graphics are key to why many people think Apple Inc's iPad and other tablets ...

Thu, August 26, 2010

Counterfeit Money Found On ISU Campus

TERRE HAUTE (WIBQ) - Federal investigators have joined area police after counterfeit money was found at Indiana State University. Fake hundred dollar bills began showing ...

Wed, May 26, 2010

China tech campus in damage control after suicides

By Kelvin Soh

LONGHUA, China (Reuters) - Dressed in white, the traditional color of mourning in China, the father of 19-year-old Ma Xiangqian weeps outside ...

Wed, April 14, 2010

Students Threatened on ISU Campus

TERRE HAUTE (WIBQ)-Indiana State University police are searching for a second person who threatened students with a gun.          

Authorities arrested one person Tuesday ...

Fri, February 19, 2010

Student wounded on Illinois campus, suspect caught

CHICAGO (Reuters) - A student at Northern Illinois University was shot and wounded on Friday, triggering a brief lockdown of the campus that was lifted ...

Thu, February 04, 2010

NYU imposes strict labor standards for UAE campus

By Cynthia Johnston

DUBAI (Reuters) - New York University has imposed strict labor standards for construction of its campus in the United Arab Emirates, where ...

Thu, December 10, 2009

Harvard University to suspend campus expansion

By Svea Herbst-Bayliss

BOSTON (Reuters) - Harvard University said on Thursday that it cannot afford to complete construction of its $1 billion science complex right ...

Fri, September 18, 2009

Flu on campus: What works, what doesn't