Student millionaire

The State Hornet
California State University-Sacramento

For the average California State University at Sacramento student, a computer is a place to write a five-page paper about Aristotle, play Madden 2003 and download mp3s.

But for 23-year-old Sacramento State student Andrew Singletary, the computer is a place to operate his million-dollar Web hosting company, and that's just in his free time.

Named Osiris Communications after an Egyptian god, the company was established in the fall of 1997. Originating in an apartment in Davis, California, Singletary and three of his friends started the company off a single computer with high-speed Internet access.

The four pioneers began by hosting their friends' Web sites for merely five dollars a month, and suddenly friends told friends and the company took off.

Harvard depression

Harvard Crimson
Harvard University

Nearly half of the Harvard College student body felt depressed during the last academic year and almost 10 percent of undergraduates reported that they had considered suicide, according to the results of a survey released by University Health Services earlier this month.

The survey results reveal a startling number of undergraduates battling depression at Harvard and cite stress and lack of sleep as the leading factors affecting students' academic performances.

And, more alarming to administrators, most students are not reaching out for help. According to the results, less than half of those students diagnosed with depression are currently in therapy, though the figure is up from the 32.4 percent who said two years ago they were seeking counseling.

Derogatory door

Daily Northwestern
Northwestern University

On the same day that the U.S. military began dropping its first bombs on Iraq, a Muslim student living in the Foster-Walker Complex at Northwestern University reported that her door was targeted with an ethnic slur.

Nazia Kazi, a Weinberg junior, said she was returning to her room on March

19 when she found the words "sand nigger" scrawled in blue marker on her dry-erase board at about 1:30 a.m. She said she called University Police, who arrived 20 minutes later and took the board in for finger printing. There are no suspects, according to UP officials.

"I guess the slur is for Arabs," Kazi said. "It really does not apply to me because I'm Indian, but I guess it does because of my religion. Obviously,

the person doesn't know me that well."