Perhaps the current debate over which colleges walk the walk on providing access to low-income students -- including the New York Times new project, led by David Leonhardt, to look more closely into these issues -- will push colleges to do away with affirmative action for the children of rich alumni and just focus on providing access for the many talented students from disadvantaged backgrounds.
STOCKTON PERFORMING ARTS CENTER, RICHARD STOCKTON COLLEGE "Walking With Pearl," Urban Bush Women, dance ensemble.
I competed through college, walking on at Southern California, where my main contribution was raising the team's grade point average.
As we wait for the last ferry back to Helsinki, there are tantalising strains of nightclub music and the raucous, drunken, happy noise of young people, who have just graduated from college, walking along the harbour, looking for a bar.
Here is the father, a young man of 20, sent from his home in Wyoming to the unfamiliar East for college, walking three miles from a train station to ask the love of his life if she will marry him.
Stanislowski, an accomplished if stealthily underachieving classical musician who is an éminence grise at a Southern college, walks in on the aftermath of Josephine's fumbled attempt to delay a friend's husband from his own surprise party.
Still, the show's wit keeps the series fresh, with great visual jokes like a moment when Rae, alienated in her first year of college, walks through a hall of students wearing "Blur" T-shirts; her own shirt reads "Oasis".
BALTIMORE — Last Friday evening, Josh Selby, the nation's most explosive high school guard yet to commit to a college, walked out the back door of Lake Clifton High School here with the Tennessee assistant Steve Forbes.
The plight of credit card hawkers crowding college walks on orientation day should loom large.
But on few campuses have the lives and work been as disrupted as at the dozen or so colleges within walking distance of the World Trade Center.
And students from as many as 20 schools in Denver, from middle school to college, were walking out of class Friday afternoon for a rally at the State Capitol against the Arizona measure.
