Microsoft to buy Yahoo for $44.2 Billion

Microsoft sent a letter to Yahoo’s board of directors offering to buy the company for $44.2 billion. This highly inflated (62% above yesterday’s closing price) offer seems like a good deal to Yahoo who plans on firing 1,000 employees and spending $300 million in 2008 to revive the company. Both, Microsoft and Yahoo, have been […]

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Brown is not clean, Study-abroad program being investigated

New York’s attorney general Andrew Cuomo is currently investigating Brown’s study-abroad program as well as those of many other schools. Claims are being made that schools choose study-abroad partners based on personal motivation on school officials, i.e. bribes, and not on how much the program will eventually cost a student or other benefits of the […]

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People want their tissues, Wash U will not comply

Last week, the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in St. Louis sided with Washington University in a battle with Dr. Catalona. Catalona is one of the U.S.’s most prominent prostate cancer researchers and recently moved to Northwestern University. He and his patients requested the tissue samples from Washington University so that he can continue […]

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Giuliani gets the gitters, Edwards follows

Today, both third place candidates running for the major parties withdrew their nominations leaving a Clinton-verse-Obama/ Romney-verse-McCain struggle in the remaining primaries. Upon Giuliani’s decision to withdraw, he immediately traveled to California to give support for his previous rival, John McCain–“John McCain is the most qualified candidate to be the next commander-in-chief of the United […]

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College Being News 2.0

Today marks the new version of College Being available to the general public. Thank you for staying with us through these long months of remodeling. New changes will continue to be released now without interruption.

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