Students with questions about financial and legal safety will soon be able to consult a new informational website. The UNC Association of Student Governments is creating the website with the help of administrators and volunteers at East Carolina University.
Frustration with political leaders has led many college students to lose confidence in the Democratic Party, leaving that demographic up for grabs in this year’s midterm elections. A study by the Pew Research Center, a non-partisan group that researches attitudes toward politics and public policy, found that affiliation with the Democratic Party among college students has weakened since its high point in the 2008 elections.
Facebook users who have been pushing for a “dislike” button on the website might have become victims of a serious scam. The scam, which tricks users into providing personal information for an application that doesn’t exist, even caught the attention of the state’s Attorney General Roy Cooper.
