(U-WIRE) CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — Republican leaders in the Virginia General Assembly announced plans last week to bar illegal immigrants from enrolling in the Commonwealth’s public universities.
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(U-WIRE) OXFORD, Miss. — University of Mississippi freshman Jeremiah Taylor had mingling on his mind when he tried out the fraternity scene at a Delta Kappa Epsilon party Aug. 22, but he found something very different there, he says.

(U-WIRE) BERKELEY, Calif. — More than 55 percent of black workers in the United States have low-wage jobs with sparse benefits and little upward mobility, according to a study released this weekend by the University of California at Berkeley Center for Labor Research and Education.

(U-WIRE) FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — Black suicide can be lessened through the influence of religious communities, according to new University of Arkansas research.

(U-WIRE) PITTSBURGH — In the 1980s, David Goerlitz posed as a rugged cowboy, known as the Winston Man, to market cigarettes for RJ Reynolds Tobacco Company. At the age of 38, he quit smoking — and his job.

(U-WIRE) UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — A recent study revealed that more than half of Hispanic students choose colleges and universities that are more affordable and closer to home, which will typically push universities like Pennsylvania State University to the bottom of the list.