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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 [...]

Feminists Demand Apology: Activist Too Pretty

Posted on Thursday, August 6th 2009
Tags: attractive, baby safe haven, feminine, feminism, feminist, jean morrisey, mike morrisey, pretty, renee marcou, role model, spoof, women's center
Feminists Demand Apology: Activist Too Pretty
The Women’s Center staff at Adams & Lee University have issued a memo to other feminist organizations throughout the country asking for a boycott of educational programs involving the Baby Safe Haven movement. “We feel completely duped,” said Women’s Center director Lynn Mariana. “The Baby Save Haven organization does incredible work, saving the lives of [...]

Superficial College Student Reflections Punctuate Cronkite Memorial

Posted on Friday, July 24th 2009
Tags: college humor, cronk, john f. kennedy, memorial, memories, reflections, satire, spoof, walter cronkite
Superficial College Student Reflections Punctuate Cronkite Memorial
As the world mourns the July 17, 2009 passing of media icon Walter Cronkite, known best for his stoic announcement of John F. Kennedy’s death, college students pause to reflect. Their words sound eerily familiar to those heard for decades following the November, 1963 shooting. “I’ll always remember where I was this week,” said Wisconsin [...]

Two Honest MBA Students Allegedly Seen Having Lunch Together

Posted on Tuesday, July 21st 2009
Tags: business school, cheating, college humor, donald mccabe, gmat cheating, gmat tests, mba, rutgers, satire, scandal, spoof
Two Honest MBA Students Allegedly Seen Having Lunch Together
Sources who wish to remain anonymous claim they heard two MBA students from a prestigious institution having an honest conversation over mocha lattés at Starbucks. The unidentified listeners recorded the following conversation: MBA Student 1: Did you see in the Wall Street Journal that a Rutgers professor named Donald L. McCabe has done almost twenty [...]

National Coming Out Day Considers Including Closeted Michael Jackson Fans

Posted on Monday, July 13th 2009
Tags: closeted gays, college humor, coming out, gay rights, human rights campaign, in the closet, national coming out day, satire, spoof
National Coming Out Day Considers Including Closeted Michael Jackson Fans
According to rumors circulated at the Human Rights Campaign, which is planning  National Coming Out Day on October 11, 2009, a group of Michael Jackson fan advocates would like to include MJ fans as a group invited to openly come out to the world. “During these past two weeks, we have seen thousands – if [...]

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 [...]

Universities Sanctioned by NCAA for Replacing Racist Masots with Stupid Alternatives.

Posted on Thursday, July 9th 2009
Tags: chiefs, college athletics, college humor, comedy, diversity, indian, mascots, multicultural, NCAA, PC Police Log, political correctness, racism, redskins, satire, social justice, spoof
Universities Sanctioned by NCAA for Replacing Racist Masots with Stupid Alternatives.
After several years of warnings, the NCAA has taken action against colleges that replaced culturally insensitive college mascots with what have been deemed “idiotic replacements” by the impatient athletics organization. The first institution slapped with a reprimand was Shippensburg University in rural PA, which made the decision to change its “Red Raider” mascot from an [...]

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