** COVER STORY **
40 Years in the Making:
The upcoming election has striking similarities to the ’68 race—an
unpopular war and a president with tanking approval ratings. So why
aren’t students shouting in the streets like they did then?
Chip Off the Old Block?
Three
college students email with their parents about what student activism
was like in their day and how today’s campuses compare.
Take Your Positions:
Four students sound off on what matters to them about the campaign
** OTHER FEATURES **
Dangerous Minds, Unlocked: Shakespeare,
Havel, Machiavelli—and the double-murderers studying them. A look at
the few remaining programs bringing higher ed to prisoners.
Prison literature
It’s a Barbie World: A nose-job vet shares the before, after and grisly in-between—and finds she’s not the only one going under the knife.
"My mom got a boob job"
College.com: More
classes and students are opting for the convenience of the web. Does
the ubiquity of online education mean it will start earning respect?
The crazy saga of University of Phoenix
** COLUMNS: Your opinions, your words **
Health: HPV protection doesn’t come cheap.
Sports: It’s time to recognize competitive eating for what it is: an actual sport.
Relationships: One student reflects on how wearing a traditional Arab head-wrap reveals her feminism and strengthens romantic relationships.
YourTurn: An idealistic writer goes corporate and finds that in an industry where money talks, being an articulate liberal arts grad might actually help.
** CLIPFILE: Current's quick takes on the news you care about **
...Erasable tats...Gender-neutral bathrooms...Ask Dr. Money! advice on credit cards and taking your dollar abroad...Skyrocketing birth control pill prices...Antioch College to close, then stay open, but still might close...THE SMART PAGE: your primer on Iraq, Kant, and art...Apparently guys more into relationships than girls...Remember Oregon Trail? We do too!...Spring break hot spots other than the ordinary...Swim test tales...Historically-black college grads' incomes...Facebook "causes"...Mini-golf on campus...Teen suicide rate up...Hit these sites...Yale mega-hottie...
** INTERVIEW **
Sinead O'Connor loves big, hairy men
** BACKSPIN: Arts & culture, both highbrow & low **
Fashion: The end of affordable couture knock-offs?
Declaring the death of Crocs
Film: Six Bob Dylan characters, no Bob Dylan
Talent: Computer whiz kid, '*** bug' driver, stand-up comic
Books: Mark Tatge's reading list
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Music: Chicago's 'Hush Sound' is making noise
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