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Apr 20, 2008 12:00 PM
by Isia Jasiewicz // Princeton University with Kiki Von Glinow // New York University and Adrienne Jeffries // William & Mary College College admissions officers have an estrogen problem. No, we’re not talking about them battling hot flashes or mood...
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Apr 20, 2008 12:00 PM
A 1957 Newsweek cover story looked at the trend of—gasp—ladies on college campuses! But fear not; these beauties manage to stay fetching and marriage-oriented, even with all that fancy college learnin’. Here’s Newsweek’s take on two of them: Nanci Browning...
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Apr 20, 2008 12:00 PM
by Heather Schwedel // University of Pennsylvania Nothing prompts more chatter around the proverbial college journalism water cooler than a plagiarism scandal. But what happens when coverage of plagiarism turns out to be…plagiarized? At Texas Tech University,...
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Apr 20, 2008 12:00 PM
by Jordan McCord // Dickinson College If you’re one of those liberal arts undergrads who just couldn’t pick a major—study Norse poetry like you always wanted or major in business to make Grandpa proud?—there’s good news: now you can extend your indecision...
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Apr 20, 2008 12:00 PM
by Caitlin McDevitt // Georgetown University In February, Georgetown University president John DeGioia announced a plan to create a resource center for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, or Questioning (LGBTQ) students on campus this fall, making Georgetown...
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Apr 20, 2008 12:00 PM
by Dan Loeterman // University of Southern California The presidential candidates continue to raise obscene amounts of money ahead of the general election this fall, but much of the money is increasingly coming from an unlikely source: it turns out your...
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Dec 19, 2007 09:46 PM
by Matt Harper // Dickinson College “Be ashamed to let it die!” cried Antioch College alumni in an attempt to save their alma mater following the June 2007 announcement that it would close at the end of this academic year. Their passionate efforts succeeded...
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Dec 19, 2007 08:34 PM
by Daina Anhalt // Harvard University The moment of truth has arrived. Study groups, all-nighters, even multiple lattes can’t help with this one. Four years of college culminate in one last challenge—the swim test. At a few schools (Columbia, Cornell,...
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Dec 19, 2007 07:38 PM
by Emily Levin // Northwestern University Two studies released this summer analyze the economic impact of attending one of the nation’s 105 Historically Black Colleges and Universities—with very different results. In one, professors at Harvard and MIT...
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Dec 19, 2007 06:54 PM
by Meredith Krohn-Friedson // Cornell University After spending a lifetime lauding the virtues of a humanities education—swaggering through the high school cafeteria with an armful of Penguin Classics; protractedly pontificating on the phantasmagoric...
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Dec 19, 2007 06:37 PM
by Adam Eaglin // Duke University Dorell Smallwood is applying to college. He would shine in any Ivy League interview. Just listen to him talk. Like a sage philosophy professor, he forms his words slowly and thoughtfully; he quotes Plato and Thomas Dewey...
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Dec 19, 2007 06:26 PM
by Ben Eisen // Cornell University Martin Luther King, Malcolm X and Nelson Mandela all wrote their treatises on social reform at the same period in their lives—while in jail. The same goes for Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf and Ezra Pound’s The Cantos. Most...
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Dec 19, 2007 04:53 PM
by Adrianne Jeffries // William & Mary College The Internet is all about convenience, and convenience is a college student’s best friend. Forget trekking to the library—just use Google or Wikipedia. Putting in the effort to actually call a friend?...
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Sep 11, 2007 09:45 PM
by Dan Haley // Columbia University Nick had all the makings of your classic idealistic humanities major: a degree in history and dreams of becoming a musician. As an undergrad at Columbia University he hung out in the dorm listening to Bob Marley and...
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