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$100K Elevator Pitch Contest delivers a first-round knockout 24

Fifteen, MIT Sloan School of Business, Cambridge, MA

1 day ago by BY JIMMY CHEN MBA '09 AND RYAN CARAG MBA '09

The 2nd Annual MIT $100K Elevator Pitch Contest, the first in the $100K-series of three annual contests, kicked-off MIT’s Entrepreneurship Contest season with a bang. On October 18th, over 150 participants and nearly 350 attendees turned Stata Center into a hive of energy around entrepreneurship as participants shared their ideas and began forming teams.

A toast to the Amethyst Initiative, responsibly 14

The Berkeley Beacon, Emerson College, Boston, MA

1 day ago by Beacon staff

The Amethyst Initiative has shaken and stirred a serious national debate about the 21+ alcohol policy's effects on the lives of young people since the Vietnam era. We think that's a discussion worth having, but merely opening the taps is not enough.

Program offers free prom dresses to high schoolers 12

The Good 5 Cent Cigar, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, ri

1 day ago by Laurel Lederman

04/18/06 - For North Kingstown High School students wishing to go to their prom or homecoming dance but can't afford a dress, they should look no further.

Please Recycle Old Memories, run by Erin West, an admissions counselor at the University of Rhode Island, is holding its third annual formalwear clothing drive.

2008 Dynamic Women in Business Conference 10

Harbus, Harvard University, Boston, MA

1 day ago by Elizabeth Head (OD), Contributing Writer

On Saturday, January 26, 2008, the WSA brought together more than 900 women (and men!) to be a part of the Dynamic Women in Business Conference.

As in years past, the conference provided a unique forum for current and future women business leaders to exchange ideas about their professional and personal experiences.

REVIEW: Snow Patrol return with much of the same on new album 9

The Daily Campus, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT

1 day ago by Stephen Ortiz

Before 2006's "Eyes Open," alt rockers Snow Patrol were a bunch of nobodies. Despite being together since 1994 and seeing a number one album in the U.K., for "Final Straw," they were still relatively unknown everywhere else. Then "Chasing Cars" happened. The single's constant radio play catapulted the band into mainstream success.