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A community college student who opened fire on his math professor in a crowded classroom Tuesday was arraigned Wednesday on charges of attempted murder and discharging a firearm in a school zone. No one was injured in the shooting, which took place at one of the campuses of the state's largest university system, but it rattled a region where memories linger of the 2007 Virginia Tech shooting shootings in which 32 people were killed. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Lucas Brown, a junior at Oberlin College here, was still wet from the shower the other morning as he entered his score on the neon green message board next to the bathroom sink: Three minutes, according to the plastic hourglass timer inside the shower. Two minutes faster than the morning before. One minute faster than two of his housemates. Mr. Brown, a 21-year-old economics major, recalled the marathon runner who lived in the house last semester, saying: ''He came out of the shower one morning and yelled out: 'Two minutes 18 seconds. Beat that, Lucas!' '' [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

There is no basketball team in the U.S. as diversified as is Coach Jeff Brustad's Mustangs, as they begin the second half of their schedule with players from Israel, France, Canada and across the country. This collection of hoopsters recruited by Brustad and his staff is talented and seeking to make a return to the National Junior College Playoffs, where they made plenty of noise in Brustad's first season. Playing well enough to move from their junior college education at the Bronx campus to a scholarship at a four-year school, Willie Youchthou, guard, and Nir Cohen, a forward, have come the farthest to join the Mustangs.

Presents three graphs showing the growth in junior year students who study abroad. Most popular countries for students to study.

The article focuses on issues concerning the decision by education officials to extend the academic year at junior colleges in Quebec. The four-weeks extension was intended to make up for the time lost during a series of labor disputes last fall and winter. The measure is estimated to affect 50,000 of the province's 105,000 junior-college students.

The article reports on the make up classes of junior-college students in Quebec who missed school in November and December 1979 to protest inadequate government-aid policies, which will extend up to June 1980. The Association Nationale des Estudiants du Québec, the student federation that responsible for the strike has been urging its members to continue their protests. Quebec Education Minister Jacques-Yvan Morin has promised to increase student-aid programs.

The article reports on a study conducted under a grant from the National Institute of Education suggesting that more than half of the United States' junior-college students may be transferring to four-year institutions. Data show that 51.9 percent of students who entered two-year colleges as first-time, full-time freshmen in 1968 had transferred by 1972.

The article presents news briefs on items of interest regarding several U.S. colleges and universities. According to a study researched by the Burns Security Institute, college campus security officers are dealing less with student protests and more with theft. General education courses completed at junior colleges in Michigan will now be accepted for credit towards a degree for students who transfer into one of the state's 18 participating four year institutions. INSET: Overseas.

The article discusses the recommendations for two-year colleges by Edmund Gleazer Jr., executive director of the American Association of Junior Colleges, as culled from the Project Focus, a research work involving 90 two-year colleges and about 1,500 students, teachers and education officials. The major message from the study is the need for two-year colleges to maintain an open-door policy to all who can not get in or stay in other post-secondary institutions.

The article reports that a national organization that will represent students at two-year colleges has been established under the U.S. National Student Association charter at an NSA-organized conference in Washington, DC. The NSA members who organized the conference wanted to develop an alternative to the American Association of Junior Colleges, which they felt was unresponsive to the needs of the students.

The article reports that two of the key issues discussed at the annual meeting of the American Association of Junior Colleges in Washington, D.C. in 1971 are the increasing number of students and the decline in funding. Many of the more than 2,000 college administrators and faculty members who attended the meeting said that the increase in enrollment to increased fees at four-year colleges and universities.

The article reports on the plan of four-year colleges and universities in the U.S. to convince students from junior colleges to pursue a bachelor's degree. Colleges and universities were encouraged by the growth of junior colleges to observe closely the students who want to go on to a degree and to employ a more formalized admissions for such students. The issue has been discussed at an annual meeting where they also talked about the unresolved problem of credit for junior-college courses.

The article reports that the status of deferments for junior college students have been left undefined even after the implementation of the draft law in the United States. The law was implemented through an executive order but it did not mention junior colleges in its provisions. The Selective Service System is trying to negotiate for junior college deferments.