Go Virtual, Young Man!

Eager for independence after having been recently censored by their administration, some Quinnipiac University journalism students have decided to go paper-free, money-free, and oversight-free. Instead of continuing to put out the Chronicle, these young Judith Millers will focus their efforts on the online-only Quad News.
The trouble started two years ago when Jason Braff ‘08 […]

“Never Have I Ever Been White”

Ohio State undergrad Everdeen Mason’s column on Mother’s Day was guffaw-worthy, but Mason’s outshone herself this week with a piece on her relationship with her best friend. Mason is black, her best friend is white, and they’re vocally obsessed with being an interracial pair. Other people, though, feel awkward about Mason and her friend’s race-related […]

Professors Lose Royalties to Gain Students’ Trust

Students already pay faculty salaries with hefty tuition checks, so should profs be allowed to squeeze another $100 out of students by requiring them to buy a book the professor penned? One school doesn’t think so, according to the Daily Utah Chronicle. The University of Utah’s Academic Senate recently amended the Faculty Code of Rights […]

UW-Madison To Appoint Openly Gay Chancellor

Who had the Best Week(ish) Ever? Gay rights advocates, that’s who. The good news began when California overturned their ban on gay marriage. New York followed suit not long after when Governor Patterson announced that state agents were required to recognize same-sex unions performed at other states. And today the Washington Post reports that the […]

Deaf Robbery Jam

Somehow more unnerving than the scene in Dumb and Dumber when Lloyd sells Harry’s dead, headless parakeet to the sad, blind boy in the wheelchair, the Washington Post reports that deaf students at Gallaudet University in D.C have been the subject of 8 home break-ins in the past two weeks. In this particular area […]

Northwestern Graduation Takes a Turn for the Typical

The wise person who put money on “corrupt Chicago politician, any variety” in our office pool is maybe the only winner after this week’s big reveal of who will be speaking at Northwestern’s 150th graduation. No, it’s not Jack Bauer. Chicago mayor Richard M. Daley will be the guest of honor, according to The […]

Right to SERVED

Harvard University Democrats’ summer protest-acular in support of gays in the military is on the road, and they will not be leaving recruitment offices until a gay or lesbian student is allowed to enlist. Or, barring that, until they get some tremendously awkward footage of baffled recruitment officers, bored-looking protesters texting their friends (”Sit-ins […]

Less Class, Less Gas

Students love a four-day class schedule — especially when their three-day weekends begin on Friday. With gas prices now more than $4 a gallon, students commuters have another reason to celebrate the four-day class week: more money in the bank. USA Today reports several community colleges are cutting one day of classes so they can […]

WSJ Turns Red, Throws Fit

Barack Obama, the Maddox of the Kennedy clan, was asked to tag in with very little notice after Ted was diagnosed with a cancerous brain tumor and couldn’t speak at Wesleyan University’s Commencement. While students raved about his performance, the Wall Street Journal–otherwise known as The Man, embodied here by David Boaz–took Obama’s words as […]

Snipers, Service, and Supple Hands

According to a new poll of college students’ political opinions, Obama isn’t just more popular than Clinton and McCain, he’s even beating the perennial student favorite, “Don’t Care.” The poll, from the Panetta Institute for Public Policy, reports 82 percent of surveyed students care “a lot” about the current election, while only 22 percent […]

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