Using Aviation for College Football Recruitment Purposes
Monday, October 19th, 2009
The NYT reports on a new type of recruitment method: helicopter landings. It certainly gets the attention, that’s for sure.
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Literature Nobel Prize Announced
Thursday, October 8th, 2009
As a former Lit student I had to include this on the page today. Herta Müller, a Romanian-born writer, won the award yesterday. Read all about her in this great NYT article.
What’s the Deal With Tuition? And Airplane Food?
Saturday, September 12th, 2009
Here we’re just going to talk about tuition. You can ask Jerry Seinfeld about airplane food and its ‘deal.’ The NYT ran an article on the 4th answering the burning question: ‘With the economy in the shitter, why is my tuition still so blasted high?’ Read this article for a full explanation.
NYT Wisdom Article #3: Head To College With Few Expectations
Saturday, September 12th, 2009
Steven Weinberg, another oldie but a goodie, gives advice to you young college students about one’s expectations when one attends college. He goes on about his early days at Cornell and how he expected certain things to go a certain way. When they didn’t, he tried other stuff and realized things about himself he may [...]
Beer Becoming Popular Again
Saturday, September 12th, 2009
I know what you’re thinking, ‘Was beer every unpopular?’ But, for a while, colleges weren’t all to keen on having beer or any type of alcohol at football games and the like. But, with money tight a number of schools, administrators are looking for new ways to make some cash. Beer at sporting events does, [...]
NYT Wisdom Article #2 – Read Books, No Matter What Your Future Holds
Thursday, September 10th, 2009
Harold Bloom, who has been writing literary criticism since the Bronze Age, often has useful insight on aspects of life beyond the text. If you’ve read any of his work, you know what I mean. It is clear in everything he writes that Dr. Bloom is one of the most well-read individuals alive. But In [...]
SAT Scores May Be Impacted By Socioeconomic Status
Friday, August 28th, 2009
It should come as little to no surprise that this is true. For the most part, students who come from families with money will do better on standardized testing because they live in better areas and go to better schools. Even if the public schools aren’t necessarily good in whatever millionaire neighborhood they’re living in, [...]
The Negatives of Social Networking
Friday, July 10th, 2009
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 [...]
Breaking the Racial Barrier At the College Level
Thursday, July 9th, 2009
The NYT reports on a new practice by college students to break down prejudice on college campuses. Though it does seem to be a bit more stressful for interracial students to live together, it works out for most in the long run.
NYT: Texas Vote Curbs a College Admission Guarantee Meant to Bolster Diversity
Monday, June 1st, 2009
From the New York Times:
“AUSTIN, Tex. — The Texas Legislature voted Saturday night to scale back a program under which Texans who graduated in the top 10 percent of their high schools were given automatic admission to the state university of their choice. The action put limits on a 10-year-old experiment to increase diversity in [...]
