The Financial Aid Revolution

Ask a room of college students about financial aid and you will start to hear grumbles (if not snarls) about private loan companies like Sallie Mae. Well, these complaints are finally being heard.
According to an article in the NY Times, a panel of experts has recommended a broad overhaul of the current financial aid […]

Because Two Social Networking Stories are Better than One……

Alright ladies and gents, it’s time to acknowledge that social networking has had a pretty darn good June. You may not be aware of its accomplishments because they didn’t show up on your newsfeed, but be prepared to go poke-happy after you get a whiff of the following…..
a. The Star Tribune reports researchers at […]

Even McCain Busted Out a Thesis!

The New York Times got their hands on John McCain’s thesis, penned while he was at the National War College way back in 1974. It’s shocking to think that someone might want to read your college essays thirty-four years from now, but I guess you never know if you’re going to end up a presidential […]

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 […]

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 […]

Yet Another Reason to Find Your Valedictorian Boring…

For over 140 years, the historically black all-male college Morehouse has cultivated a reputation for producing young African-American leaders. One need not look further than an alumni list that includes Congressman Sanford Bishop, filmmaker Spike Lee, and a Nobel Laureate that went by the name of Martin […]

Guys Rule and Girls Drool at Hampden-Sydney College

The Chronicle of Higher Education (registration required) has branded Hampden-Sydney College in Virginia “The Manliest Campus in America.” That’s right, this all-male campus is a utopia for dudes: They can dress in camouflage and hunt during deer season without being ridiculed or judged by that other gender. Honestly, when you’re chilling with […]

Still Believing the College Hype

A recent op-ed in Chronicle of Higher Education claims that a bachelor’s degree isn’t as important as we make it out to be. Career counselor Marty Nemko deconstructs the undergraduate experience through an exercise in cost-analysis, and comes to the conclusion that too many of us spend thousands of dollars on a so-called “product” that […]

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Bearers of Bad Luck: The Bear Stearn Hopefuls

After reading The New York Times article Bear Stearns’s New Hires Become Job Seekers (free registration required), which follows high-achieving seniors with business degrees who are no longer guaranteed high paying Wall Street jobs, I rolled my eyes and tried to figure out why I should care. It […]

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Let’s Try to Cope with the Pope

Pope Benedict’s XVI’s recent excursion to the new world/big birthday bash isn’t all fun and games for American Catholics. With the Pope scheduled to address U.S. Catholic colleges leaders, Kelly Brewington of the Baltimore Sun suggests blaming the pontiff’s pilgrimage for the latest reincarnation of Catholic Guilt. Why the […]

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