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Reports plans by colleges and universities in the United States to provide newspaper to students. Success of the plan at Penn State in University Park, Pennsylvania; How the plan provides the papers and charges them to students' housing costs; Statistics on the number of college students reading newspapers; Increase in newspaper circulation; Criticism by some members of the College Media Advisers.

The article presents information on the conditions in Zimbabwe, as of April 2007, which have caused the government to cease issuing passports for travel outside the country. Poverty and inflation have reached a point where the government does not have sufficient foreign currency to purchase passport paper, which it ran out of in late 2006. Zimbabwean students who have been accepted at universities in the United States and other countries cannot leave the country and consequently are unable to attend. During the 2005-2006 school year, 1,700 Zimbabwean students studied in the United States.