An article by a gentleman by the name of Jacques Steinberg over at the NYT, who has been reporting from the National Association for College Admission Counseling (Nacac), has some advice for those of you who are planning on perhaps friending some people you may have met at your first visit to your new college. [...]
Radames Santiago, a student over at St John’s University in New York is being held for making a threat on his Facebook page about killing his fellow classmates in a ‘Virginia Tech style’ massacre. Santiago claims that he was drunk and depressed at the time of the posting and it really didn’t mean anything at [...]
In a time where the 18-24 demographic (and that demographic getting much younger) is becoming increasingly engrossed in the online experience, colleges and universities are finding that they can use this to their advantage. It used to be that when you were given your roommate assignments at college you just dealt with it. Sometimes you’d [...]
Apparently going to football and basketball games to yell and scream and blow bullhorns just isn’t enough anymore. The big universities are using Facebook to show their pride and perhaps gain some supporters in the wake. Just recently there has been a bit of a rivalry about rivalries (that’s some pretty meta shit, right?) on [...]
As I wrote about last week, Penn State was ranked number one by the Princeton Review as the biggest party school in the country. Since then, the administrators have been working hard to discourage anyone from thinking that this ranking reflects the overwhelming majority on campus. A spokesman for the college explained that there were [...]
The New York Times reports on a social networking plan to get people to carpool. Facebook has a new application that should entice people to share rides to get to and from campus or the workplace. Though it does serve as a reasonable way to get around, the men who opened the application are hoping [...]
An article from the NYT explains that social networking may be a major proponent of the social divide. For a very long time, people have been hoping to close the racial gap, and we made a major step towards that when we voted for a black President, but the problem still lies in cyberspace. What [...]
Students from campuses all across the country are becoming victim to fraudulent advertisements asking them for personal information. It was reported that one student was actually commissioned to help someone scam more people. It’s quite the growing problem. Classes that will be going into college this Fall and next year are the largest group that [...]
A little inside information for my true blue Campus Ology readers… Yesterday evening, Ology had a meeting of the minds to discuss some marketing techniques. It’s quite an interesting topic of conversation, and one with many twists and turns. On the same token (but a much larger scale) the InfoComm Conference in Orlando has decided [...]
Chris Hughes, the co-founder of the wildly popular and ever-addictive Facebook, is doing something sort of creepy and mostly reckless. Hughes is on some sort of weird lecture circuit telling young college students that they should venture out into the ‘real world’ and stop fooling around with all this college mumbo jumbo. I say creepy [...]
