by Jeremy Sly Freelance Writer First-year resident assistant Gerald Thompson, picked by the Associated Press to be the Breslin University RA Rookie of the Year, found himself the victim of an exhausting amount of intentional interactions Monday. The interactions, deemed “brave, but foolhardy” by university officials, has BU’s Housing and Residence Life faculty worried about [...]

McDonald’s Training Program Latest to Come Under Fire by Aloysius St. Bernard Freelance Writer Hamburger University, the landmark training program related to fast-food industry powerhouse McDonald’s, has become the latest for-profit institution to draw the ire of Iowa Senator Tom Harkin, whose recent hearings focused in bringing to light alleged abuses by for-profit colleges and [...]

MEMO To: Campus Colleagues From: Department of Leadership Studies Re: Free staff training binders! Monday afternoon, our office will place 500 of our gently used staff training binders out in the hallway for free pickup! Most of the binders are in almost-mint condition, having only been opened once, when we inserted the guts. You can [...]

by ZackFord Freelance Writer Rumors have long circulated that social justice educator and higher education guru Vernon Wall is actually famed drag persona and actor RuPaul. New evidence has emerged recently showing credible evidence that not only are the rumors true, but the two personas seem to be merging. Jess Brubaker, a graduate assistant in [...]

by Brody Truce Senior Staff Writer For the past ten years, resident assistants at Carter College returned to campus two weeks before their peers to participate in RA Training under the direction of James Wallace, Director of Housing. “It was awesome!” explained former RA Katrina Banks. “We played name games and did team builders for [...]

by Irma Voigt Staff Writer Tired of educating students and parents about the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA), one university office is taking an extremist approach. “We’re simply denying our mission, vision, our very existence,” said Erik J. DeLaney, Director of Judicial Affairs at Tennison State University, in what he said would be [...]

Student Affairs experts scratched their heads in befuddled amusement this week, when the Residence Life staff at Mount Jackson University announced it’s mid-year training theme. “Naturally, we assumed it would be the Olympics,” said Dr. Margaret Wexler-Manolo, author of numerous student development bibles. “These moves are as predictable as the human knot and that sappy [...]

University Hospital at Green Mountain State in Maine is treating Resident Assistant Trent Vonder for a rare psychological disorder called merged personality dysfunction. During his first two weeks on the RA job, Trent began to manifest the personality of television icon Barney Fife. “We had some early concerns during staff training,” said hall director Carmella [...]

After rigorous campaigns and subsequent leadership training, college student government representatives are eager to kick of the academic year with hard-hitting agendas. “We want better food options on our campus,” announced Roberta Wellingsly, the SGA president from Lake Tahoe University at the regional student leadership summit hosted by her campus. “We promised our constituents we [...]