If You Don’t Have Anything Nice to Say

I tend to have a very light sense of humor so I find most things in this world highly amusing. I watch the Miss America pageant because there is a good chance that someone will fall; one of my favorite shows is My Boys, a show that nobody except me enjoys. But what has gotten me lately […]

A Family Affair

The first thing my Dad said when I got my college acceptance letters was, “Congratulations Ashley! Now let’s look into financial aid.” I’m sure my Dad isn’t the only parent who has said that  after finding out their child got into college. Even if they didn’t say it, I’m sure they were thinking it. Most […]

Harvard Hoax by Adam Wheeler

Famed Harvard mischief-maker Adam Wheeler is getting a lot of buzz on Gawker’s well-traveled pages. That’s because he faked his college transcripts and got away with it (at least for a little bit—never should have gone after the Rhodes Scholarship). This story seems to get more bizarre every week, as new information comes to light.
First, the award-winning […]

Can College Students Empathize?

Do college kids really only care about themselves? A recent report aims to give us the answer. There were 72 studies tracking 14,000 college students from 1979 to 2009. What are findings?  Read on to find out.

Sorority Girls Vomit All Over Underground Railroad Museum

Anyone who’s attended college for an extended period of time knows that most campuses are littered with boozing and debauchery that would leave most parents aghast. It’s the known consequence of 18-22 year old kids escaping the confines of home and parents, structure and supervision, to be left to their own devices. They’re going to get […]

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 […]

UMich Med School Leaves Dogs Be

The med school at the University of Michigan, accustomed to using dogs in one of its courses, decided to switch to human models after an animal rights group got fussy. Though most med schools favor either models or cadavers, UMich’s Advanced Trauma and Life Support course thought dogs were the best bet.
Doctors operated […]

Psychiatric Disorders For All!

A new survey published by the Los Angeles Times suggests that young people aged 18-24 have staggeringly high rates of psychiatric disorders.
A total of 45.8% of college students and 47.7% of young adults not in college met the criteria for at least one psychiatric disorder. The most common disorder in college students was […]

Colleges Put the Squeeze on JuicyCampus

The hottest sororities. The druggiest frats. Confidential files from the campus health center. Think you’re going to get the dirt on students at George Washington University through scandal-seeking anonymous gossip site JuicyCampus? Turns out you’re more likely to get a re-posted Wikipedia entry about Latin’s linguistic origins (that is not a […]

BYU Student Sex-communicated

Forgive the ex-communication pun…we just so rarely have a chance to break one out. According to the AP, Brigham Young University is withholding the diploma of Chad Hardy, the young man who published the “Men on a Mission” calendar featuring sexy Mormon ex-missionaries sans shirts. Why would a college be so down on […]

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