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New Admissions Process Boosts UCLA Minority Numbers
Tweet Share on Facebook May 14, 2007 Comment (1)In their very unholistic breakdown of preliminary numbers, UCLA admissions officials are pleased to see that black enrollment will most likely more than double from last year's dismal 96 students, the Daily Bruin reports. Meanwhile, numbers for first-generation and low-income students decreased. --Alison Go
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Stressed Out? Blame Your Parents
Tweet Share on Facebook May 14, 2007 CommentStudents afflicted with "Stanford Duck Syndrome"--looking calm and well adjusted on the surface but flailing their well-heeled legs behind the scenes--make up the new generation of clandestine problem children, the Stanford Daily reports. Speakers at a Stressed Out Students, or SOS, program event placed the blame squarely on pushy parents. "What I'm seeing is some incredibly perverted knowledge of what it means to push a kid," says one of the speakers. --A.G.
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Michael Moore Takes a Break from Making Film to Wax Nostalgic
Tweet Share on Facebook May 14, 2007 CommentTaking time away from his next project--Sicko, a healthcare expose--Michael Moore joined forces with fellow documentary filmmaker Kazuo Hara, who he called his "soul brother in Japan," for a talk at the University of Michigan, the Daily reports. Depending on your political persuasion, you can blame/thank Hara for the portly provocateur's evolution as a documentarian. Moore said his rabble-rousing tactics can be traced back to a fateful viewing of Hara's The Emperor's Naked Army Marches On, a look at Japanese World War II war crimes. "If you put politics first in a film, you will end up with a crappy movie," says Moore. Funny: If that's truly the case, then can someone please explain the success of Fahrenheit 9/11? --A.G.
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Trail Mix
Tweet Share on Facebook May 14, 2007 Comment- Cleaning up after departing Michigan State students can be a moldy, chemical-laden affair, the State News reports. But at least the head scratch-inducing left-behind goodies are entertaining: a $100 bill, orange traffic cones, and handcuffs.
- You know you're in Indiana when the school newspaper writes a story on the summer closing of the legendary "Cow Path." Ball State University's "mini-icon" will be closed for repaving and storm drain installation, the Daily News reports.
- Hundreds of George Washington University students will be spared early-morning indigestion because this semester's "Midnight Breakfast" has been canceled, the GW Hatchet reports.