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At Brandeis, Students Now Help With Admissions Interviews
Tweet Share on Facebook November 27, 2006 CommentEight seniors are now among those who get to vet potential Brandeis students, the Justice reports. The students, hired in the spring, each conduct up to four interviews a week for the admissions office.
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Where Early Admissions Programs Weren't Axed, Fewer Early Applications
Tweet Share on Facebook November 27, 2006 CommentAfter several schools dropped early admissions this year, some that stuck with the option are getting fewer applicants. Yale and Brown both report receiving fewer early applications to the class of 2011, with Yale posting a 13 percent decrease from last year and Brown 2.5 percent. Harvard, Princeton, the University of Virginia, and several other schools dropped early admissions this year, calling the program a deterrent to low-income students.
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Trail Mix
Tweet Share on Facebook November 27, 2006 Comment (16)- A new Iowa State football coach will be announced in a press conference tonight at 6 p.m., says the Iowa State Daily. Iowa State was one of many schools--including the University of Miami and Arizona State--to fire a head coach as football season wound down this fall.
- Testing of an HIV vaccine has moved into the human trial stage at Emory, the Wheel reports.
- New York University has banned Coca-Cola products since December because of the school's concern about the company's alleged human-rights abuses, but Coke and Diet Coke bottles were spotted in vending machines last week anyway--an accidental mix-up, maintenance representatives tell the Washington Square News.
- The dean of Georgetown University's public-policy institute will return to just thinking about public policy after she lost her bid to make it as the House representative for Virginia's 10th District, the Hoya reports.
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Trail Mix--Special Thanksgiving Edition
Tweet Share on Facebook November 22, 2006 Comment- The University of Texas and Texas A&M will have a showdown on the football field this Friday as they do every year. But maybe this time, unlike the past six meetings, Texas A&M will win...
- A Northern Kentucky University columnist calls Thanksgiving "the unofficial biggest bar night of the year."
- Paper Trail will return on Monday. Happy Thanksgiving!
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Students Create Tech-Free Zone
Tweet Share on Facebook November 22, 2006 Comment (17)A group of Western Kentucky University students protested technology this week, creating "portals" inside of which cell phone conversation and iPod listening were discouraged. The group, which calls itself "Students Opposing Silence," argues that technologies like these have isolated students. One student protestor wore a sandwich board that printed "Face-to-Face" on the front, and "Facebook" crossed out with a line on the back, the WKU Herald reports.
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New Mexico Freshman Studies Strippers
Tweet Share on Facebook November 22, 2006 CommentWomen who work at Albuquerque's TD's Showclub make the most money in tips when they're ovulating, a University of New Mexico freshman has concluded. The finding supports psychology student Brent Jordan's hypothesis that fertility makes women more attractive, says the Daily Lobo.
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New Model for Club Success: Go Liquor-Free
Tweet Share on Facebook November 22, 2006 CommentA popular club near the University of Maine seems to have lost its liquor license for good, but that didn't stop people from paying a cover charge of up to $10 to come to a "Soul Saturday" party last weekend, reports the Maine Campus. Maybe college students aren't single-minded booze hounds after all. Or maybe they're just pre-gaming...
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At Florida, Ollie Gator Crocked in Favor of Albert and Alberta
Tweet Share on Facebook November 22, 2006 Comment (23)The alumnus who named him had already raised $1,000 toward saving Ollie the Gator, the inflatable alligator mascot who had attended University of Florida basketball and volleyball games for 10 years until his inflation machine broke this year. But no amount of money will make the university revive Ollie, a marketing director for the school's athletic association tells the Florida Alligator. Why? Florida wants Albert and Alberta Alligator, the school's main mascots--pictured here--to reclaim center stage.
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Rutgers Students Well Received at Statehouse
Tweet Share on Facebook November 22, 2006 CommentAt least half a dozen legislators and one representative of Governor Jon Corzine listened to a two-hour presentation by Rutgers University students Monday on the effects of last year's historic education funding cuts. Barbara Buono, a Democratic state senator, tells the Daily Targum the presentation had a "deep impact":
"I knew from my daughter attending Rutgers that there were real issues with respect to class size and research laboratories, but I wasn't aware of the magnitude the cuts have had on things like searches for professors being suspended, and problems with respect to capital projects around the campus, stairs are crumbling. I didn't realize the situation with respect to living quarters had reached such tragic consequences, students should not be living in lounges."
Support for the students was bipartisan. One Republican assemblyman, who told the students he wishes spending on pork projects had gone to higher education instead, says he was most touched by the personal stories. "Your faces are worth more than the photographs," he told the group.
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Are You at Least 25-percent Caucasian? B.U. College Republicans Have $250 for You
Tweet Share on Facebook November 22, 2006 Comment (20)Copying a move that won a student group at Roger Williams University national media attention two years ago, the College Republicans at Boston University have made a call for applications to their "Caucasian Achievement and Recognition Scholarship." The winning student, who must be at least 25 percent Caucasian, will get $250. The students said their award is designed to highlight affirmative action--the "worst form of bigotry confronting America today," the Daily Free Press reports.