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College students may be “connected” by technology, but in person,  they are more distant than ever. It’s time to put the phones down, and come back to reality.

Football coach Glenn Caruso has said he does not want to leave St. Thomas, but his success has some wondering if a D-1 job is in his future.

A majority of Minnesota undergraduates already work between 20 and 30 hours per week on average. They say it’s essential to pay for tuition and other expenses, which have skyrocketed in the last decade.

Some college officials worry that work is competing for too much of students’ time.

An Associated Press commentary says Mitt Romney’s whisker-thin Iowa caucus victory was underwhelming in scope and anti-climactic in its finality. But it moves him closer to the Republican presidential nomination chiefly because of who finished fourth and fifth.

The document in which Pfc. Bradley Manning allegedly confessed to giving classified information to WikiLeaks also includes a rationale that has made him a hero among peace and anti-secrecy activists worldwide: “I want people to see the truth.”

Here are two possible scenarios for how the St. Thomas versus Wisconsin-Whitewater semifinal playoff game will go. Leave your score predictions. The person with the closest guess wins a TommieMedia “swag bag.”