Harvard Reviews its Police Force
Not only has Harvard regained its first-place throne, but the administration also is responding admirably to complaints of police bias. Black students and professors have complained that the university-run (and mostly white) police force has a habit of profiling based on race. Instead of covering up the complaints, Harvard’s president, Drew Gilpin Faust, is launching […]
Can Obama Weather the Weatherman Storm?
Bill Ayers is a once-violent guy who is now so sedate he’s a teacher at the University of Illinois-Chicago, a shlub who long ago traded bombs for blogs. But to the GOP, he represents Violent Anarchism, and, because he talked to Barack Obama back in the day, so does the Dems’ nominee for President.
The […]
Surf’s Up, Eh?
Hockey, plaid shirts, and….surfing? No, seriously. Apparently Canadians are nuts about surfing. So deep is our Great White Neighbor’s love for surfing that North Island College in Vancouver, B.C. is readying a two-year surf studies program, the first of its kind in North America.
The program’s creator, Barbie Mayor, one of Canada’s top surfing judges, […]
The Daily Cal Downfall?
Without getting too sentimental (or too bitter, which is possible), I just want to point out a rather disheartening development. UC Berkeley’s award-winning independent student-newspaper The Daily Californian (a paper which I worked for during my college years) has been hit with falling advertising revenue and will no longer be publishing a Wednesday print edition […]
Fox Streams New Shows for the College Crowd
In an effort to engage the college audiences, Fox, the network that brought us such quality representatives of TV drama like Fastlane, will be streaming the season premiere of Terminator: The Sarah Connors Chronicles and the series premiere of J.J. Abrams-produced Fringe to any user from a college-based domain (.edu)
Why the special attention? Maybe […]
MTV Misses U
Where would MTV be without college students? Who else has the patience to sit through 3-hour blocks of mindless chatter on The Hills or watch Making the Band at 2 a.m.? But since the Internet has taken away all of MTV’s precious, precious youth, with things like Facebook and YouTube (you know, where […]
Iowa College Prez Takes an Active Interest in Student Activities
And when we say “student activities,” we mean the kind that involve mini-kegs of Coors Light. According to the Des Moines Register, Iowa Central Community College’s president, Robert Paxton, was partying with his son and some friends when someone on board snapped the above picture, which shows Paxton appearing to pour the beer down […]
Boys Will Be Boys — Until Sexism Becomes Uncool
The College Guy (homo universitus) is an interesting specimen. Free of parental rule, he exhibits his masculinity by scorning intellect, binge drinking and hooking up with girls. Michael Kimmel, a sociologist at SUNY Stony Brook, calls the modern college boys’ culture Guyland. In an interview with Inside Higher Ed about his new book, Kimmel discusses […]
Somebody Still Loves You, Harvard University
Poor Harvard. Since 1996, they haven’t had the number-one spot atop U.S. News & World Report’s annual college rankings all to themselves. Either they’ve shared it or seen it awarded to rival Ivies like Princeton and Yale (and that one time it went to Caltech….but we don’t like to talk about that). […]
Bedbugs Invade College Campuses
When students begin moving into the dorms this fall, they may meet some unexpected roommates: bedbugs. That’s right, those tiny monsters that like to feast off of the blood of humans have found their way to several college campuses across the country, reports UPI. These colleges include Texas A&M, Ohio State University and the University […]
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