Can You Spare Some Change for Oxford?

College administrators are less concerned about the size of their schools’ endowments than…oh, who are we kidding. EVERYONE wants to have the biggest endowment (we’ll let you guess which Freudian theory this falls under). The fundraising frenzy has now hit overseas, with Oxford University’s announcement that they’re launching the biggest European college fundraising […]

And Get Off My Yard, Ya’ Flibbertygibbits!

With graduation either just finished or just around the corner, we thought you’d like to see 60 Minutes taking on “Millennials,” a term that apparently applies to 20-somethings who just don’t know how easy they have it. When I was young, we knew the meaning of a hard day’s work. We had to walk to […]

Spies in the Academia

Does reading the Al-Qaeda manual constitute research or espionage? According to the AP, an Algerian staffer and grad student at the University of Nottingham in central England were arrested and detained for nearly a week under British terrorism laws after downloading and attempting to print an Al Qaeda handbook freely available on the U.S. […]

Middlebury Student Nicholas Garza Found

The President of Middlebury College, Ron Liebowitz, issued this statement, released to the Middlebury community last night:
With sadness, I write to inform you that the Middlebury Police Department, assisted by the Vermont State Police, tonight has recovered the body they believe to be Nicholas Garza. I have shared my deepest sympathies with Nick’s […]

From the “People Will Buy Anything” File….

Fred & Friends, which makes precious little things you might give to someone you only sort-of know but would never buy for yourself or someone whose friendship you actually valued, is now selling a set of “To-Do List” temporary tattoos. It’s handy for all those times when you’re in class and you’ve left your organizer […]

Diversity: Priceless

Colleges are eager to prove they’re not just in it for the benjamins. Beginning this year, the College Board will pilot a program allowing 30 schools (including Amherst, Williams, and Wellesley) to purchase the names and contact info of students who indicate their parents make less than $40,000 a year. Admissions officers hope to increase […]

Another Reason to Make Fun of Stanford (Kind of…)

No one ever said college rivalries are rational. As a Berkeley alum, I was strangely ecstatic when I found out that Condoleezza Rice plans to return to Stanford to write and teach after that whole Secretary of State shtick is over with. The endless stream of jokes about the hoity-toity foes from Leland Stanford […]

We Can’t Catch Osama bin Laden, either, so…

…Don’t Fret, Colby College!

Everyone is on edge at Maine’s Colby College campus because a terror has been unleashed — a terror nobody can quell. Should the world fear for its safety? In this guy’s opinion: Yes. Definitely, yes. For sure.
A Vietnamese pot-bellied pig, “about the size of an English Springer Spaniel,” has […]

College Students Have New Excuse Not to Bathe

If the residents of Oberlin College’s new SEED (Student Experiment in Ecological Design) house smell a little ripe, don’t take a step back: Embrace the funky, self-righteous future these kids represent. They are the new Global Warming martyrs and they, along with their eco-friendly classmates, wear their BO like a hair shirt. Some race to […]

See Ya, SAT

Let’s face it–the only people who like the SAT are the ones who got good scores. So if you’re not the type who can do story problems with a number-2 pencil in your sleep, you’re in luck. Wake Forest University and Smith College both announced they’ll no longer require SAT scores for admission. […]

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