Education

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University of Maryland football head coach Randy Edsall (right) chats with Big Ten Commissioner James E. Delany (left) following a press conference to announce the University of Maryland's joining the Big Ten Conference, at the University of Maryland in College Park, Md., Monday, Nov. 19, 2012. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)

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University of Maryland women's basketball head coach Brenda Frese (left) is embraced by Kevin Anderson, University of Maryland Director of Athletics following a press conference to announce the University of Maryland's joining the Big Ten Conference, at the University of Maryland in College Park, Md., Monday, Nov. 19, 2012. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)

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University of Maryland President Wallace D. Loh offers remarks during a press conference to announce the University of Maryland's joining the Big Ten Conference, at the University of Maryland in College Park, Md., Monday, Nov. 19, 2012. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times) ** FILE **

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Eric Hayes scored 1,201 points at Maryland from 2006 to 2010, good for 31st on the school's all-time list. Now he's serving as a graduate assistant. (Associated Press)

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This August, 2012 photo provided b Jodie Szablowski shows Evan Szablowski at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, NY. Szablowski, of Bakersfield, Calif., is among 32 Americans named as Rhodes Scholars Saturday, Nov. 17, 2012. The award provides all expenses for up to four years of study at Oxford University in England. Szablowski, of Bakersfield, Calif., is a senior at the USMA, where he majors in mathematics. He has also studied at Al-Akhawayn University in Morocco, and worked on projects encouraging entrepreneurship in Ethiopia, and on emerging markets in the Czech Republic. Evan is also a triathlete, conducts a West Point choir, and was a member of the first American team ever to win the Sandhurst military competition. At Oxford, Evan plans pursue a Masters in Science in mathematical modeling and scientific computing. (AP Photo/Jodie Szablowski)

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The New York University Steinhardt orchestral string ensemble performed Thursday with members of the Eagles (from left) Timothy B. Schmit, Glenn Frey, Don Henley and Joe Walsh. Mr. Frey has been teaching a songwriting class at NYU. (New York University via Associated Press)

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An Egyptian looks through books and school bags that were strewn along the tracks at the scene where a speeding train crashed into a bus carrying children to their kindergarten, killing at least 47, officials said, near Assiut in southern Egypt, Saturday, Nov. 17, 2012. The bus was carrying more than 50 children between 4 and 6 years old when it was hit by a train near al-Mandara village in Manfaloot district in the province of Assiut, a security official said, adding that it appears that the railroad crossing was not closed as the train sped toward it. (AP Photo/Mamdouh Thabet)