Remove news carousel and other unused pages

Remove unused course_filter page

removes university_profile urls and templates

removes all university_profile views

remove news from templates/index

common/djangoapps/student/views.py

@@ -90,10 +90,7 @@ def index(request, extra_context={}, user=None):
     courses = get_courses(None, domain=domain)
     courses = sort_by_announcement(courses)
 
-    # Get the 3 most recent news
-    top_news = _get_news(top=3)
-
-    context = {'courses': courses, 'news': top_news}
+    context = {'courses': courses}
     context.update(extra_context)
     return render_to_response('index.html', context)
 
@@ -285,9 +282,6 @@ def dashboard(request):
 
     exam_registrations = {course.id: exam_registration_info(request.user, course) for course in courses}
 
-    # Get the 3 most recent news
-    top_news = _get_news(top=3) if not settings.MITX_FEATURES.get('ENABLE_MKTG_SITE', False) else None
-
     # get info w.r.t ExternalAuthMap
     external_auth_map = None
     try:
@@ -302,7 +296,6 @@ def dashboard(request):
                'errored_courses': errored_courses,
                'show_courseware_links_for': show_courseware_links_for,
                'cert_statuses': cert_statuses,
-               'news': top_news,
                'exam_registrations': exam_registrations,
                }
 
@@ -1242,28 +1235,3 @@ def accept_name_change(request):
         raise Http404
 
     return accept_name_change_by_id(int(request.POST['id']))
-
-
-def _get_news(top=None):
-    "Return the n top news items on settings.RSS_URL"
-
-    # Don't return anything if we're in a themed site
-    if settings.MITX_FEATURES["USE_CUSTOM_THEME"]:
-        return None
-
-    feed_data = cache.get("students_index_rss_feed_data")
-    if feed_data is None:
-        if hasattr(settings, 'RSS_URL'):
-            feed_data = urllib.urlopen(settings.RSS_URL).read()
-        else:
-            feed_data = render_to_string("feed.rss", None)
-        cache.set("students_index_rss_feed_data", feed_data, settings.RSS_TIMEOUT)
-
-    feed = feedparser.parse(feed_data)
-    entries = feed['entries'][0:top]  # all entries if top is None
-    for entry in entries:
-        soup = BeautifulSoup(entry.description)
-        entry.image = soup.img['src'] if soup.img else None
-        entry.summary = soup.getText()
-
-    return entries