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CLIPS: Bill urges colleges to use text-messaging alert system (04/19/07)

TweetBY DANIEL VICTOR Of The Patriot-News Could the key to saving lives come 120 characters at a time on a tiny screen? That tiny screen — that of a cell phone — is usually on hand for an estimated 90 percent of college students. E-mails might be quick, but the shootings at Virginia Tech showed …

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CLIPS: Penn State students’ efforts to entice recruits breaks rules (02/13/06)

TweetBY DANIEL VICTOR Centre Daily Times UNIVERSITY PARK — When highly touted football prospects such as quarterback Pat Devlin and wide receiver Vidal Hazelton visit campus, Penn State junior Brad Wilson does what he can to help urge them to become Nittany Lions. But Wilson created an unfair advantage for Penn State when he distributed …

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CLIPS: Yankees fans seem content to push the repeat button (10/06/09)

TweetBY DANIEL VICTOR Of The Patriot-News You’d never expect that leaving the new Yankee Stadium after the home team won the World Series would have an atmosphere roughly similar to leaving a nonconference Penn State football game or a Broadway play. But most in the businesslike crowd leaving Game 6 couldn’t be bothered to high-five …

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