In a piece for Inside Higher Ed, Jack Stripling wrote yesterday about the College's Legacy of Distinction Fund, a $5 million fundraising effort spearheaded by College Dean Meredith Woo to hire new faculty members.
Fourth year has finally arrived! In May, I will finally be graduating, I will finally get to walk the Lawn and I will receive the "Honor of honors." Four years at one of the premier public universities in the country.
Austin Raynor ("Up In Smoke," Nov. 9, 2010) got an arrow-splitting bull's eye illustrating the need to end cannabis (marijuana) prohibition and extermination.
It is never reassuring when your role model kills himself. A few weeks back, I examined some literary remains of the late David Foster Wallace, now held at the University of Texas - an irony Wallace might have appreciated, given that he once referred to "Two crew-cut and badly burned U.
I think that feel-good sensation you get on a Friday afternoon is pretty universal; everybody is more prepared to laugh, there is an itch to get out of work or school and almost all of us put aside our busy lives for a while and focus on filling up our social calendars.
Yesterday's editorial explored the ways that Indiana University, Princeton University and Cornell University seek to address the problems of grade inflation and grading variability among disciplines and professors.
On Tuesday, California voters rejected Proposition 19, which would have legalized the cultivation and possession of small amounts of marijuana for personal use.
This week we celebrate Veteran's Day, a day to remember those who have served our country and died in the line of duty.
A student's GPA may only be a number, but it is a critical factor that helps determine one's prospects for employment and admission to graduate school.
Peter Restrepo, I thank you for covering the independent candidate in your piece ("Clark earns 2 percent," Nov.
This week I would like you to help me learn something about journalism ethics - about your attitude toward journalism ethics.
The 24-hour news cycle should have earned one of Stephen Colbert's coveted "Medals of Fear" at the Oct.
The University recently earned a "green light" rating from the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education.
Freedom of speech may be a constitutional right, but it is restricted by many colleges across the nation that have speech codes.
In his Oct. 2 column, "More harm than good," Austin Raynor egregiously violates of the first law of statistics: Correlation is not causation.
Where there is a will, there is a way. Conscientious research efforts and tenacious leadership have, in the past, enabled advancements in medical treatment for some of the world's most lethal diseases.
Amidst the Republican wave on Tuesday evening, one state stood conspicuously apart from the others: California.
