To Carry or Not to Carry

So I read this article about students who are fighting for a law to be passed to allow them to carry guns on campus. Before I give you my opinion on this, here’s a little background:
The second amendment is the part of the Bill of Rights that says: ”a well regulated Militia, being necessary to the […]

Playboy’s Top Party School is the University of Miami

Playboy magazine recently announced the results of its party school rankings, and the University of Miami took top honors.
Playboy scored schools based on campus life, sports, sex, and academics, plus a “bikini” rating combining weather, gender ratio, and cheerleaders.
You’d be hard-pressed to find University of Miami undergrads who disagree with their school’s reputation for […]

Tuition Is Becoming Impossible to Afford

College tuition has gotten all out of whack. In a Huffington Post piece last week, University of Michigan senior Andy Kroll maintains that tuition is swelling more quickly than almost any other index, including household income, the Consumer Price Index, and medical care. He presents some astounding stats:

Over the past 30 years, the average […]

Tweets to Follow

Not on Twitter? You might want to rethink your decision. The Chronicle of Higher Education just came out with a list of 10 profs to follow for the latest news on their research (mostly new-media based).
The list includes Jay Rosen, associate professor of journalism at NYU; Howard Rheingold, a UC Berkeley lecturer on virtual […]

Facebook, the New Prefrosh Hangout

Social networking sites aren’t just hot spots for broadcasting college rejection — they’re also the new go-to for admitted students.
Many of today’s college seniors are joining Facebook groups for several schools they’ve been accepted to, so they can find out the inside scoop from students who attend. “You can kind of tell what […]

College Pres. Joins April Fools’ Trickery

College newspapers publishing joke issues on April 1 is standard. But a president responding with a joke of his own? Now that is newsworthy.
Every year, the College of Wooster’s student newspaper, The Wooster Voice, publishes an April Fool’s edition (The Wooster Vice). This year, President Grant Cornwell retorted with a letter announcing the […]

Ivy-League Merger

The recession has hit the Ivy League.
We’re in the throes of a merger epidemic. Earlier this week, the Obama administration announced a new bailout stipulation for Chrysler: the car company must merge with Fiat if it wants continued government help. Now, Cornell and Dartmouth have decided to form a new, combined university, Cornmouth, to […]

Broadcasting College Rejection

Old fad: posting college rejection letters on your bedroom wall. New fad: announcing your rejections on Twitter.
In a post today, The Daily Beast shared some of the best college-rejection tweets, including “@warmsound ponders requesting a formal rejection letter from Princeton… just to get the most out of his application fee” and “@amybethx got rejected […]

The Grass is Always Greener at the Other Commencement Ceremony

College students aren’t ever happy, are they? UCLA seniors are bemoaning the school’s speaker selection, James Franco — in fact, a UCLA student who’s known as a slacker. And across the country, UVA students have the opposite complaint: instead of U.S. Court of Appeals judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III, who was selected as the […]

Stay in Constant Connection to Your Classes

Is there anything worse than being disconnected from Blackboard? How can students be expected to LIVE without constant access to their grades and assignments?
If you’ve got an iPhone, fret no more, type-A student! According to The Chronicle of Higher Education’s Wired Campus blog, Blackboard just released an application that lets you check your grades […]

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