by Con Chapman Lifestyles Editor RENO, Nevada. Popular culture studies are often the subject of criticism by legislators concerned that higher education dollars are wasted on trivia, and this state is no exception. “You’re just paying some high-priced professor to indulge his low-brow tastes,” says Senator Lowell Furlin, who represents Esmerelda County in the state [...]

by Leah Wescott Editor-in-Chief

Officials at Luminity College have announced a pilot solution to the age-old dilemma of dealing with serious drug use on expensive college campuses. “After Operation Ivy League at Columbia, we had to come up with a plan other than just hoping our students wouldn’t get caught,” said Chancellor Drake Caesar, referencing the prosecution of five [...]

by Cherie N. Freelance Writer Talks of a CEO-swap reality show for failing Fortune 500s is being shopped across major networks. Cue dramatic music as unemployment rises . . . The days of Carnegies and Rockefellers sipping un-endorsed cognac and building an economy worth the world’s envy are long gone. Trump toupee tropes and Kardashian [...]

by Anselmo Watkins Throughout the month of April, Whittington University’s Central Administration Building will be bathed in a pastel blue light as the campus celebrates Autism Awareness Month. According to campus lighting shop supervisor John Cimbal, the university spent “several thousand dollars, in the mid-five figures” on the customized lighting grid that will illuminate the [...]

by Con Chapman Lifestyles Editor PRINCETON, N.J. The average IQ here is normally high, but it hits its annual peak during the Gauss-Fleckner Conference on Experimental Physics when some of the brainiest people in the world converge on the Princeton campus to listen to impenetrable papers and participate in turbulent discussions that literally change the [...]

by Jeffrey Ross, Meetings Expert, with special thanks to Robert Frost, Poet Some say the college will end in meetings, Some say in overeating. From what I’ve learned from teaching I hold with those who fear old crockpots. But if we had to assess twice, I think I know enough of learning To say that [...]

by Diana Senechal Baltimore, MD—In an effort to reverse decades of bias against students who don’t care about their studies, Medaigual College has announced its plan to give them highest priority and honor. “We have been caught in a century-old dance of favoring the eager student, who favors us back,” its press release reads. “It [...]

  SAVE THE DATE! Next Tuesday, Mercury College of the Arts’ department formerly known as “Student Activities” will unveil its new name. “We’ve evolved through a number of incarnations from ‘Student Involvement’ to ‘Engaged Leadership’ to ‘Student Activities,’ which we tried unsuccessfully four different times,” said department director Trent Shelton. “We’re a little nervous that [...]