Believe it or not, the Princeton Review ranks colleges on how happy students are. The winner? Students at Whitman College in Walla Walla, WA, were the nation's happiest. And why not? The smallish,...
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The Princeton Review provides a lot of valuable information on individual colleges and universities, including how they compare to each other in areas like academics and campus life. It does this by...
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Ever wonder where you'd be most likely to run into marijuana on campus at a college in North America? Wonder no more, for the Princeton Review has that information. In their 2008 Best Colleges...
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IvyGate pointed out last week that Sex Week was coming to Yale this week. Valentine's Day seemed like as good a time as any to mention it.... There's been a fascinating schedule of speakers...
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A news snippet from the Chronicle of Higher Ed recently mentioned that Muhlenberg College has become one of America's top ten Jewish school as measured by the percentage of the student body that...
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Naomi rockler-Gladen has an excellent piece online at the moment about picking a college or university that provides a friendly environment for Jewish students. Some of the tidbits she offers seem...
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In about 40 hours or so, the biggest football game of the year will be played. It's not the BCS's national title match-up. It's the Harvard-Yale game. And this year the two teams play for...
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College is hard enough. No one needs to add to the problems and work by putting up with a bad roommate... It helps if you know what to prepare for. scholarships Dot Com recently published a list of...
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Dan Belzer and Duke University's independent student news paper, The Chronicle, both recently talked about the new gossip site that has Duke University in a tizzy. The site is Juicy Campus, and it...
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Mourners gathered today to remember victims of the October fire that claimed the lives of six students from the University of South Carolina. The Associated Press says that hundreds of mourners...
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The University of Oregon has evidently decided that student privacy is more important than the record industry's desire to stop peer-to-peer downloading of copyrighted music. That's not really...
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If you're looking for a university setting that makes you feel like you're back in middle school, consider the University of West Alabama. UWA just instituted a dress code for students,...
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They've beat up I-AA Youngstown State; terrorized teams in the MAC like Akron and Kent State; beaten conference foes Northwestern (4-3), Purdue (5-2), and Minnesota (1-6); and managed to overcome...
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Fraternities at St. John's University in New York City have been banned from inducting new recruits after the hazing of a Sigma Chi Upsilon pledge resulted in nine days of hospitalization - four...
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I watched the game. Pretty much every minute of it, despite the fact that I'm not really an LSU fan or a Florida Gator. It was a spell binding game. My interest in the game was mercenary, I...
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Probably your college doesn't have a score yet on the Campus Pride's LGBT-Friendly Campus Climate Index. A total of 103 colleges and universities have actually taken the survey that leads to a...
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Several campuses made it into the news in the last few days with their ongoing efforts to improve campus safety in the wake of the killings in April on the campus of Virginia Tech. Ball State...
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In the last 10 years the University of New Mexico has doubled its freshman enrollment. But getting them is one thing and keeping them is something else. Earlier this month the school announced that it...
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by Greg Cruey on September 29, 2007
If you're a college football fan, and especially if you cheer for any team in the Big East conference, it's hard not to wonder whether West Virginia University and the University of Southern...
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by Greg Cruey on September 27, 2007
Virginia Governor Tim Kaine has asked President Bush to award the Presidential Medal of Freedom posthumously to a university faculty member who died while trying to physically prevent gunman Seung-Hui...
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by Mark on April 19, 2007
(Source: Associated Press) The killing rampage at Virginia Tech remains the top story in the media, dominating the evening news, radio call-in shows, and talk TV on Fox. Related issues such as gun...
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