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With college tuition on the rise, students find one way to keep up: take on more debt. New data shows that students who graduated in 2010 carried 5 percent more debt than in the previous year.

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College students and young voters played a big role in President Obama's election two years ago. Polls show they still support him and the Democrats though not by the record margin they did in 2008.

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More and more students are unable to repay the aid they get from the federal government. The Department of Education says 7 percent of students defaulted in the most recent period -- the highest number in more than a decade.

But there's another troubling number: Students at for-profit schools are twice as likely to default as students at nonprofits.

First-year college students typically gain about five pounds. That's not exactly the "freshman 15," but one psychologist says five pounds can lead to more weight gain when students fall into bad habits.

And a simple awareness of weight can go a long way to keeping off the pounds.

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New college students will have to master tough personal finance lessons early. Fahiya Rashid, a student at the University of California, Irvine, says her dad warned her of the problems he had.

Rashid says her dad had more than a dozen credit cards and took out students loans. She says he's still paying the money back.

Fifty years ago, on Feb. 1, four black college students sat down at a whites-only Woolworth's lunch counter in Greensboro, N.C., and asked to be served.

Their action sparked a movement that helped lead to the integration of public places. Now the building that housed that lunch counter is a civil rights museum, opening Feb. 1.