Retirees Return to College in Growing University Trend
At the University of Maryland, 62 year old Jack Murray teaches seniors in a Senior University program. Institutes for Learning in Retirement have grown to 261 across 43 states plus Canada and Bermuda, with 65,000 participants. The trend skews older, emphasizes flexible study, and features peer teaching within study groups.
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College Park
Jack Murray
University of Maryland
Murray
Senior University
Susan McManus
University of South Florida
St. Petersburg
Dee Bickle
Ms. Bickley
Mary Linnehan
Elderhostel Institute
Boston
Girl who rejected Harris wonders if she set him off
Bran di Tinklenberg, a Columbine junior, recalls Eric Harris asking for a prom date days before the shootings. She says the rejections, including a Marines denial, may have affected him, though she believes he was already troubled. She and Harris shared a video production class and noted changes after the denial.
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Harris
Littleton
Cole
Eric Harris
Brandi Tinklenberg
Columbine High School
Eric
Brandi
Mr Harris
Brana
Heston Defends NRA At Columbine Meeting
Charlton Heston rejected the idea the NRA is to blame for the Columbine massacre and defended gun rights at the NRA annual meeting. A larger crowd supported him while thousands opposed, with protesters outside decrying the NRA as a “Pusher of Child Killer Machines.” The event shortened to one day and removed a gun exhibit at officials’ request.
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Denver
Charlton Heston
National Rifle Association
Columbine High School
NRA
Wellington Webb
Heston
America
Crosses replace killers markers at Columbine hill
Relatives remove tall crosses for Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold and replace them with smaller markers as mourners ask why. Flowers and notes pile around the new crosses while families debate honoring killers alongside victims. Investigators seek interviews with the shooters’ parents, with Harris's parents requesting immunity before talking.
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Littleton
Calo
Eric Harris
Dylan Klebold
Columbine High School
Harris
Dylan
Thort
Katherine Pollock
Ms Pollock
Aspen
Jefferson County
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Bill Direen
New Market Elementary School
Sue Abbott
Scripps Howard News Service
Frederick
By Yemi
Board OF County Commissioners
Frederick County
Winchester Hall
Church Street
Sara Zeagler
Brian Rohrbough
Daniel
Basto
Bray
Basto the Clown
Maryland
Boonsboro
John Christian Brining
Brining
George
John Calhoun
William F. Bast
Bast
Main Street
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