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Filed under: News, Weird At this time of year American news media is resplendent with great weird news stories about high school students not being allowed to graduate at the last moment because of pranks gone wrong — but a student losing his diploma for
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GRADUATION DAY: Tim Berta was two months away from graduating at Bluffton University in Ohio when he was suffered serious head injuries in a 2007 bus accident that...
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Two years ago, Tim Berta was fighting to survive head injuries that left him in a coma following a bus crash that killed five Bluffton University baseball players.
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Slippery Rock University will hold a separate graduation for 22 students who recently returned from Mexico.
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Fourteen women’s basketball teams in the NCAA tournament have perfect graduation rates.
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North Carolina, Pittsburgh, Louisville and Connecticut share a No. 1 seeding in the NCAA tournament. Their graduation rates have less in common.
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Graduation ceremonies at Miami’s basketball arena and hectic final-exam schedules kept the Hurricanes from practicing on their own court for the past week.
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A student intending to make a speech criticizing school administrators at her high school graduation was cut off in mid-sentence and told to leave the ceremony.Jennifer...
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A Muslim student who sued because his public high school graduation ceremony was held in a Baptist church has received an apology from Newark’s school district...
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President Bush, ignoring faculty members who stood in silent protest of his commencement speech, admitted Saturday that when he left college, thinking about how to be a...
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More than 960 cadets are graduating at West Point and are expected to hear from Army Secretary Pete Geren during the ceremonies.Geren is the service’s top...
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Roy Crump III says there’s only one way he can describe why he is alive and graduating as one of the valedictorians at Enterprise High School, with a chance to...
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More than six decades after they were forced to leave college, some 450 Japanese-Americans interned during World War II have been awarded honorary degrees from the...
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Top-seeded Tennessee leads 12 women’s teams in the NCAA tournament with perfect graduation rates.A report released Tuesday found the Lady Vols graduated all their...
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North Carolina was the only school among the four No. 1 seeds in the NCAA men’s tournament to graduate at least 50 percent of its players.A report released Monday...
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Tim Berta, a survivor of the Bluffton baseball team bus crash in March 2007, waves to his family in the stands before receiving his diploma in Bluffton, Ohio on Sunday, May 3, 2009. Two years ago, Berta was fighting to survive head injuries that left him.
