Zipcar: Largest On-Campus Car Sharing Program

October 10, 2008 - 2:00 pm , By COED Staff

Zipcar Expands World’s Largest On-Campus Car Sharing Program

With more than 120 university partners, Zipcar becomes leading choice for students

Zipcar, the world’s largest provider of cars on demand by the hour or day, today announced it will expand its Zipcar for Universities program to more than 120 campus communities. This fall, Zipcars are being added to nearly two dozen new schools, more than doubling the fleet of vehicles on campuses throughout North America. [Market Watch]

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20 Most Indispensable College Football Players

Most of these guys aren’t on Heisman voters’ radars, but what do they need with a trophy, anyway? You say valuable, Sporting News college football expert Matt Hayes says indispensable. The players most essential to their teams, ranked in order of importance in relation to national title and conference championship races. [Sporting News]

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Michelle Obama Rallies NH College Students

Sen. Barack Obama’s wife told New Hampshire college students Wednesday that the “smart, respectful” tone her husband displayed during his last debate is the attitude he’ll bring to the White House.

Without mentioning Republican Sen. McCain, Michelle Obama contrasted the presidential candidates’ debate performance the previous night, calling her husband “outstanding.” [Boston.com] 

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Cletus The Slackjawed Yokel Tries To Kill Obama

August 26, 2008 - 9:30 am , By Andrew - Hunter College

Fear the 21st Century mastermind killer. He comes armed, dangerous, and uncomfortably inbred-looking. Meet Nathan Johnson, Tharin Gartrell and Shawn Adolf, the “at least” three people arrested in Aurora, Colorado, suspected in a plot to kill presumptive (until Thursday) Democratic nominee for President, Sen. Barack Obama.

Though little has been reported or released to the public about the men, their motivations rang clear Monday, when they told CBS4 television station that they were, “going to shoot Obama from a high vantage point using a … rifle … sighted at 750 yards.”

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New Yorker Cover Controversy

July 14, 2008 - 9:30 am , By Andrew - Hunter College

Obama New Yorker Cover

The political world has its panties in a bunch this morning over the cover illustration of this week’s (July 21st) cover of the New Yorker. This illustration by Barry Blitt, called “The Politics of Fear,” combines every smear tactic so far used against presidential candidate, Sen. Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle.

The Obama campaign has already called it “tasteless and offensive,” reports the Huffington Post. And nobody else really knows what to think of it.

Is it ok because it’s the New Yorker? Should we freak out about this like we freak out about everything else, or try to explain it, so we seem more sophisticated? This seems to be the internal battle of the media, but screw them. How do you feel about it?

The New Yorker cover: social satire or a vicious political hit?

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