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Penn State University
Jessica Meeker, age 12, is the youngest student to ever attend Pennsylvania State Universtiy.
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Meeker breezed through high school and is now enrolled at the Eberly College of Science at Penn State.
Meeker, a pre-med major, earned her high school diploma through home schooling.
At 11, she earned a combined score of 1060 on the SATs.
University of Illinois
Legislators in Illinois are debating whether the University of Illinois will be allowed to grow industrial hemp for research purposes.
A bill concerning the hemp is now in reading and should be called in the next veto session.
Industrial hemp has many uses and is one of the oldest fiber plants in the world. It is often confused with marijuana because of the leaf shape of both plants.
Indiana University
The Delta Tau Delta fraternity at Indiana Universtiy enjoyed a nice dinner recently with Playboy playmate Tiffany Taylor, Miss November 1998.
The celebrity dinner was arranged as one of the rush activities of the week.
The members of the fraternity donated five dollars for each picture that Taylor signed.
