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Harvard Entrepreneur Pushes New Trend with Community College Fashion

Posted on Thursday, February 11th 2010
Tags: college, humor, ivy league, jokes, lampoon, satire, spoof
Harvard Entrepreneur Pushes New Trend with Community College Fashion
Billy Grainger, a third-year business student at Harvard, thinks he has the key to winning the famous Ivy League Biz-Off for aspiring entrepreneurs. “It seems the the market is saturated with sweatshirts from Princeton and Harvard. I see them everywhere, from high schools to state colleges,” said Grainger in the mock business plan he submitted [...]

Math and Physics Professors Collaborate to Explore FERPA Loophole Theorem

Posted on Friday, August 7th 2009
Tags: college humor, ferpa, ferpa law, ferpa regulations at schools, lampoon, privacy law, senator sherrod brown, sherrod brown, spoof
Math and Physics Professors Collaborate to Explore FERPA Loophole Theorem
Funded by a grant from Ohio Senator Sherrod Brown, scientists from Harvard and MIT are looking more closely at the oft-theorized “FERPA Loophole.” Mathematical theorists have studied knot formations in space and nature, but not yet in higher education law. “We’re pioneers in taking on the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act to uncover its [...]

Call for Programs: National FME-CSP Conference

Posted on Sunday, July 12th 2009
Tags: acpa, acuho, acuho-i, college humor, conference, lampoon, naspa, national conference, program, programs, satire, spoof
Call for Programs: National FME-CSP Conference
Call for Programs: National FME-CSP Conference October 21-24, 2009 Charleston, SC Future Manager Education in College Student Personnel This year’s FME-CSP conference team has put together a convention theme that captures the excitement and expectations coming with the change of decades. We’re putting the F back in FME. Intentional * On Purpose * Keeping It [...]

Math Researchers Discover Diversity Really Is a Number

Posted on Saturday, July 11th 2009
Tags: chronicle, college, cronk, cronknews, discrimination, diversity, gender, higher education, humor, lampoon, MIT, multicultural, number, PC Police Log, pluralism, political correctness, quota, race, satire, sexual orientation, spoof, university
Math Researchers Discover Diversity Really Is a Number
After years of painstaking research, a team of mathematicians from Cal Tech and MIT have found definitive proof that diversity is indeed a number. Sixteen. “We have finally put and end to the ongoing debate between social scientists and real science,” said team leader Hassan Patel, chair of MIT’s Department of Hard Sciences. “Our research [...]

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