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American Sign Language is close to surpassing German as the third most studied foreign language at America's colleges and universities.

The University of Connecticut campus in West Hartford has been evacuated after a bomb threat was made Thursday morning, the Hartford Courant reports.

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Rutgers University paid a public tribute Saturday at a football game to a student who committed suicide last week after his sexual encounter was secretly streamed online.

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Police at Northwestern University's Downtown campus placed the school's Rubloff Building on lockdown Wednesday morning after a man with a gun was spotted in an elevator of the building.

About 10 a.m. Wednesday, a man with a gun in his waistband was spotted in an eleventh floor elevator of the Rubloff Building on the Chicago campus, according to an alert issued on Northwestern's Web site. The building is located at 375 E. Chicago Ave.