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By Xarissa Holdaway August 27, 2012
The University of Alabama’s legal threat against a cake maker strikes many fans of the Crimson Tide as half-baked.
By Xarissa Holdaway August 20, 2012
How well do you relate to a student born in 1994? Beloit College presents its annual list of things that have always been true for a new freshman class.
By Xarissa Holdaway August 20, 2012
In preparation for the release of the Beloit College Mindset List, which purports to predict freshmen’s “cultural touchstones,” we’ve made our own.
By Xarissa Holdaway August 9, 2012
“Doonesbury” takes on for-profit (and nonprofit) sacred cows in a series of strips on higher education.
By Xarissa Holdaway August 2, 2012
A complicated font used by Idaho State University leaves some diplomas looking a little less than dignified.
By Sara Lipka July 26, 2012
A literary tailwind is gusting through financial-aid and risk-management meetings this season. Any more analogies whirling about?
By Xarissa Holdaway July 18, 2012
It’s one of the few competitions in which the winner was the biggest flop.
By Xarissa Holdaway July 17, 2012
About the only threat that the late head coach’s bronze image doesn’t face is being indicted.
By Nick DeSantis July 10, 2012
A group of four physics students at the University of Leicester has concluded that the Caped Crusader’s method of gliding would quickly leave him “a bit splattered.”
By Aisha Labi July 4, 2012
The document, found between pages in a library volume, was produced by 16th-century cartographers who erroneously credited the New World’s discovery to Amerigo Vespucci.
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