Time Magazine's 2007 "Back to School" Supplement

This issue has a Web feature with 10 different timely articles, many of which are of interest to SCUP's constituency:

Mental Health
Can We Avoid Another Virginia Tech?
After Virginia Tech, there's still a lot of confusion when it comes to when and how schools can share information about a troubled student. But the best policy seems to be responding to early warning signs

Vice
The Newest Addictions on Campus
Health officials are seeing increases in students' abuse of caffeine and video-game playing. But are they dangerous conditions or simply irresponsible habits?

Activism
A Student Backlash Against Coke
Coca-Cola has been kicked off more than 20 college campuses for alleged labor and environmental abuses. Can the company win back student consumers?

Going Global
Luring Students Overseas
A new bill might help more college students study abroad, and in more unconventional locales

Safe Sex
Birth Control Prices Soar on Campus
Many female college students are coming back to campus to find their birth control prices have tripled or quadrupled, and health providers are worried they'll give up on prescription contraceptives altogether

Financial Aid
Navigating the Murky World of Student Loans
Amid widespread misconduct in the student-loan industry, college kids are learning about private lending the hard way

Environment
Getting Schools to Think and Act Green
Sustainability has become a buzz word on college campuses, with more research, courses and projects devoted to environmental issues

Politics
The Return of SDS on Campus
Students for a Democratic Society — or at least a group who has claimed the name of the 1960s' New Left organization — is back and still wants to take on "the system"

Q&A
Virginia Tech's Suzanne Higgs
Higgs, a rising junior and journalism major at Virginia Tech, participated in producing the upcoming book, April 16: Virginia Tech Remembers

Photo Essay
Foam Heads of Fury
A gallery of the nation's most eccentric college mascots