Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell: The Road Trip

This Memorial Day, we’re really excited to finally see what it looks like outside. And as usual, a group of Harvard undergrads will be putting us all to shame by spending their holiday weekend going on a socially-responsible road trip. The “Right to Serve” tour will be stopping in four East Coast cities (Boston, […]

College Grads Love the Sap

Looking through college columns from the past few days, I could hardly find one that wasn’t a sappy senior-year retrospective, from Mary-Catherine Lader’s piece in The Brown Daily Herald to UCLA senior Lana Yoo’s tribute to L.A. (the “City of Angels”). At first, my brain rebelled. Can’t someone graduate from college without going all Brady […]

Berkeley Students Love the Trees, Hate the Tree-Sitters

Every time someone cuts down a tree, a UC Berkeley student cries…right? Well, it’s not the 60’s anymore, and nowhere is that more apparent than the former capital of college-hippie central, according to a story in The Economist. UC Berkeley is planning to build a new fitness center in a stadium-adjacent oak grove, but […]

How Not to Run a University

Think you can tape a $20 to your transcript or just have Daddy buy your dream school a new library to guarantee admission? Think again–University of Florida medical school dean Bruce Kone was removed from his post after faculty sources told the Gainesville Sun Dean Kone admitted an unqualified, well-connected student over the selection […]

“You know that feeling when you’re so excited you have to pee?”

Think Wesleyan’s excited about seeing the O-man live at commencement this weekend?
Alex Gelman ‘08: “I’m, like, ecstatic, really excited about it. My friend was really happy, jumping up and down. I really like him, I’m a supporter, I voted for him in the primary. I guess it’ll be interesting to see how […]

Morehouse’s Problem with Life on the Down-Low

Does Morehouse College deserve its bad rap for homophobia? Sure, this all-male historically black college in Atlanta graduated Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. back in the day, but the majority of the student body seems to have forgotten about that whole tolerance message. A Los Angeles Times article reports that Morehouse’s small gay […]

Big Tobacco Secretly Paying for VCU’s Lunch

Oh, the Truth campaign would have fits with this one. According to the New York Times, the always ethically-responsible tobacco company Phillip Morris has been secretly paying Virginia Commonwealth University big bucks to conduct research for them.
How did such an evil pact remain under wraps, you ask? Through a super-secret contract that prevented […]

Kennedy Calls in Sick to Wesleyan Commencement

After Senator Ted Kennedy announced this week he’s got a malignant brain tumor, rumors started flying. Would he be able to complete his Senate term? Was this the latest tragedy in the Kennedy mythology? But most important, would he be able to pop a couple of aspirin and still make his scheduled […]

Vet-on-Vet Violence Update

Originally John McCain argued against the newest expansion of the G.I. Bill, which would pay for Iraq war veterans to go to college at state schools, because he said it would be too expensive. Now he adds that he objects because it would deplete our armed forces.
This is confusing to me. I mean, yes, getting […]

Pie Bandit Gets Fall Semester to Reflect, Work on Baking

While giving a lecture at Brown University this spring, New York Times columnist and Pulitzer Prize winning author Thomas L. Friedman fell victim to a pie-and-run. Now one of the perps, Brown junior Margaree Little, has been suspended for the entire 2008 fall semester over her part in the prank/protest. Little was one of […]

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