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A new analysis of Barack Obama and John McCain’s campaign stops shows that Obama has made more than two dozen campaign stops in college towns since the beginning of February. John McCain? Just one.
The report tracked the candidates’ visits to eleven different kinds of communities, but did not measure campus visits specifically. It did not analyze Hillary Clinton’s campaign schedule.
The Wisconsin state supreme court has dismissed a student lawsuit over drink specials. Students from UW Madison had sued local bars, claiming that their agreement to limit drink specials on weekends amounted to an illegal price-fixing conspiracy.
The court found that the agreement was lawful because the bars had implemented it in the face of regulatory pressure from the university and local government officials.
A similar lawsuit is still pending in federal court.
An off-campus end-of-semester party turned into a melee in Middletown, Connecticut Thursday night, as Wesleyan students clashed with police.
One report contends that used pepper spray, tasers, and dogs on the students, five of whom were arrested on incitement to riot and other charges.
Before dawn, as many as sixty students converged on the police department to file complaints about officers’ tactics.
The Wesleyan student newspaper, the Argus, published a special edition on the disturbance on Friday. Wesleyan blog Wesleying has been covering the situation as it develops.
Update: Here’s an analysis of the events of Thursday night that struck me as well worth reading.
studentactivism.net 
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