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Say What? Shortage of College Men Sets Women Back 50 Years
"Thanks to simple laws of supply and demand, it is often the women who must assert themselves romantically or be left alone on Valentine’s Day, staring down a George Clooney movie over a half-empty pizza box."
— Reporter Alex Williams discusses the shortage of men on college campuses and the dire consequences facing female coeds.
Would You Prefer to Speak Up Online During Class?
Some students and professors at Purdue University in Indiana are testing a new approach for asking questions during classes. A homemade program called Hotseat allows students to post questions during lectures and professors to answer questions or clarify points in real time. The software can be accessed online or through Twitter, Facebook, and mobile devices.
Fab Finding Follow-Up: College Holiday Party
You're cool in school, but instead of hitting the books, you're thinking about the fabulous holiday party your friend is throwing. How are you going to stand out from the crowd? This is the time to put together one of the snazziest outfits you've worn all year.
Come Fab Finding With Me: College Holiday Party
You're cool in school, but instead of hitting the books, you're thinking about the fabulous holiday party your friend is throwing. How are you going to stand out from the crowd? This is the time to put together one of the snazziest outfits you've worn all year.
College Claims Facebook Reduces Dropouts
In general, people seem to agree that Facebook can be a big time-waster... even causing some students lower grades than their less-frequent Facebook-using friends. Now, the BBC is reporting on a Gloucestershire College claim that Facebook is actually cutting down on student dropout rates.
Game Over: Beer Pong Spreading Swine Flu
Frat boys have been called pigs before, but now they might be responsible for spreading swine flu. College partiers are being warned that they can catch H1N1 from beer pong.
Administrators from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute released this statement after a student contracted swine flu from the classic drinking game:
"While it might seem fun over the weekend, it will not be enjoyable when you and your friends are sick and missing class or midterm examinations."
Guess Where These Celebrities Studied!
The new academic year is starting, with lots of students heading to university. From actors, singers and comedians to models and members of the royal family, lots of celebrities attended university too, and several American actresses are college grads. Find out how brainy you are and take my quiz about where these famous faces studied.
Tufts to Dorm Dwellers: Get a Room!
Tufts University has just instituted a policy you'd think wouldn't need to be an official rule: don't have sex in your dorm room while your roommate's present, and don't "sexile" (sex + exile) your roommate, say at 3 a.m., because you want to get it on with your college sweetheart (or random hookup). So basically, if you're dwelling in a dorm, either have enough money to get a hotel room, find a comfy broom closet if passion strikes, or go without.
The Tufts policy arose because students were complaining that their horny roommates were intruding on their privacy and interfering with their studies by either having sex while they were present (ewww!) or asking them to leave for a few minutes.
Do Shows Like Gossip Girl Accurately Reflect College Life?
In an article in the New York Post today, real-life NYU students respond to Gossip Girl's depiction of NYU freshman orientation. What do they think of the show's fictional keg parties on rooftops, characters requesting who they want to room with to the Housing Office, and the notion that NYU is cheaper than Yale? (Here's a Buzz recap of this week's goings-on to refresh your memories!)
Although one blogger gives the thumbs up to the show's reference to an "Art & the World" class he actually took his freshman year at Tisch, another one disses the idea of a rooftop party.
Classy Ladies: 20 Actresses Who Are College Grads
When Emma Watson arrived at Brown University earlier this month, the paparazzi were ready. They snapped up pictures of what looked like her freshman orientation, while tabloids made up stories that she arrived by helicopter, which she later denied. But I believe her.
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