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Congress Needs to Act on Stafford Loan Rate | The Nation The current system is by no means perfect. But to make college even less accessible for the poor would have a devastating effect on inequality and upward mobility in this country.

Great reporting from The Fine Print, a Campus Progress publication at the University of Florida. Check it out!

Never Lost: The Journey that Led a Lost Boy of Sudan to Gainesville, Fla. - Campus Progress Now a University of Florida graduate student, Jacob is one of the lost boys of Sudan who survived the second Sudanese Civil War. And he’s looking to pay it forward through a new non-profit.

Great column from Campus BluePrint at UNC-Chapel Hill featured on CP.org today. Check it out:

Local ‘Rush Radio’ Faces Pressure to Drop Limbaugh Programming - Campus Progress Questioning the reasoning of those calling for Limbaugh’s removal from North Carolina’s WRDU.

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Campus Progress' new director, Anne Johnson, began this week. Find out more about here in this release.

Campus Progress Names Anne Johnson as New Director - Campus Progress “This is a critical time for young Americans,” Johnson says.

Another great reprint, this one from North by Northwestern's Shaunacy Ferro:

"This is not a question of whether Catholics want to use birth control. They do. And though I’m a huge proponent of religious freedom, I couldn’t give two sh*ts about how this mandate might play into that particular fight.

This is a question of who has the right to debate what goes on in my uterus."

The Contraception Debate: Where My Ladies At? - Campus Progress This is not a question of whether Catholics want to use birth control. This is a question of who has the right to debate what goes on in my uterus.

One of this week's reprints, from Henry Taksier at The Fine Print:

"Florida provides 45 percent of all tomatoes purchased in the United States, and from October to June, the rate skyrockets to over 90 percent. The fields surrounding Immokalee make up the epicenter of Florida’s tomato industry, and every growing season, Immokalee’s population temporarily doubles, flooded with migrant workers who rely on income from picking tomatoes.

In Immokalee, the systematic lack of legal protection leaves thousands of workers vulnerable to slavery, physical assault, child labor, and sexual harassment."

A New Hope for Florida’s Farm Workers - Campus Progress Every growing season, a Florida community’s population temporarily doubles, flooded with migrant workers who rely on income from picking tomatoes.

Congrats to Q Magazine at Yale, who won a Pacemaker over the weekend, and to finalists Ethos and Cipher! Campus Progress is proud of our journalism network!

Campus Progress Publication Wins College Journalism’s Highest Honor - Campus Progress Yale University’s Q Mag was awarded the Pacemaker for overall excellence.

This week's CP journalism network reprint is a cartoon by Noora Kamel (from Al Talib Newsmagazine, a CPjn publication at UCLA). http://campusprogress.org/articles/cartoon_ucla_student_budget_prospects_2011-12/

“This is a fairly revolutionary concept,” he said. “It shouldn’t be, but it is."

Written by James Chapin. Originally published in The Fine Print, a CPjn-supported publication at the University of Florida.

Where the Red Fern Grows - Campus Progress No tombs, no caskets, no embalming, no gravestone. It is the vanguard of environmental preservation: a green burial.

“I learned peace with the earth and a new appreciation knowing where our food comes from,” said Tremayne, a recent graduate of City Seeds' Therapeutic Horticulture program.

Written by Olivia White. Originally published in liveOneWorld, a CPjn-supported publication at St. Louis University.

Planting the Seeds of Recovery - Campus Progress Situated on two and a half acres in the heart of downtown St. Louis, MI, City Seeds Urban Farm’s Therapeutic Horticulture program helps clients to better cope with a range of challenges they might face, from mental illness to homelessness to drug addiction.

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