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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Millions for the Mature, right?

As the owner of the Dallas Mavericks, dot-com wonder kid, and Dancing with the Stars alum, Mark Cuban is known for saying what he wants, when he wants. 95 percent of the time, he speaks just to hear his own voice. But Marky Marky isn’t an idiot, as became ever […]

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USA Today tackles religion on campus. Yawn.
College students of America, we can finally breathe with a sigh of relief. The generation gap is gone! Thank the good folk at USA Today for this epoch-defining breakthrough.
Let’s just write that off as wishful thinking on my part. This past Monday, crusty ol’ USA Today […]

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