Obama in a Landslide!
At least according to college newspapers. A mind-blowing 59 of them have hopemeister Barack Obama as their pick, as opposed to a single lone rebel voice for John McCain (the Daily Mississippian).
To be fair, though, this is a bit like polling Slate staffers.
(Source: UWire)
Forbes Lists “College Capitals”
Who doesn’t love a list? Forbes.com just published a new one as a little Halloween treat. It’s a ranking of “college capitals” in the U.S. — code for cities with lots of undergrads. A few of the top-ranked:
Miami, Florida, home to Florida International University and Miami Dade College — and 93,746 undergrads (the biggest […]
Who Can Say No to Google? Harvard, That’s Who
Google just inked a $125 million settlement with authors and book publishers, securing the right to scan copyrighted, out-of-print books from five of the biggest libraries in the country for their digital Google Book service. Awesome, right? No thanks, says Harvard, whose library has been a prime source of out-of-copyright books already scanned into […]
U Kentucky Strings Up a Fake Obama
The University of Kentucky gets the dubious distinction of being the first college south of the Maxon-Dixon line to hang possible-future-president Barack Obama in effigy. Ironically, the display was first discovered by a guy named Lynch:
Mike Lynch, a faculty member who works in a building near where the effigy was found, said he saw it […]
No Props for Proposition 8 from California Colleges
Eliminating the right of same-sex couples to marry will not only slap the civil rights movement in the face — it’ll also slow down intellectual progress. This is the resounding message coming from several California college heads across the state, including Chancellor Robert J. Birgeneau of UC-Berkeley and Prof. Erwin Chemerinsky, dean of UC-Irvine’s law […]
The Gift That Keeps On Re-Giving at OSU
T. Boone Pickens shattered records in 2006 with a $165 million donation to Oklahoma State University’s sports program. At the time, the fact that the giant nest egg was invested in Pickens’ hedge fund, BP Capital, seemed like no big deal–after all, hedge funds were hot, and the investment ballooned to $300 million in […]
Will College Kids Vote in the Old Man?
Bless their hearts, College Republicans haven’t given up — they still believe they can tilt their campuses, especially in all-important states like PA and FL, to John McCain. Still, these hopeful youngsters understand they have a hard row to hoe:
And they are supporting a candidate at some odds with the young: Mr. McCain voted for […]
Get Shot in Minnesota
The University of Minnesota thinks it’s made its way into the Guinness Book of World Records, and no, it has nothing to do with wind chill. According to the AP, health officials administered 11,538 flu vaccinations in just nine hours yesterday on both the Minneapolis and St. Paul campuses. The numbers still have […]
Outfoxing the Flu
Determined not to get the flu this year? Unless you’re willing to live in a hermetically-sealed bubble between now and March…good luck. But according to a new study from the University of Michigan, college students can decrease the spread of “flu-like symptoms” (a.k.a. any of the hundreds of nasty diseases you can catch […]
Penn State’s Not-So-Quiet Riot
Sometimes winning makes people so excited that they want to break something — you know, like their own town. According to the Centre Daily Times, Penn State’s 13-6 victory over Ohio State resulted in a post-game celebration turned-riot as revelers threw random objects about willy-nilly and tore down light poles and street signs as if […]
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