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The Halls of Ivy

"You have four years to be irresponsible here. Relax. Work is for people with jobs. You'll never remember class time, but you'll remember time you wasted hanging out with your friends. So, stay out late. Go out on a Tuesday with your friends when you have a paper due Wednesday. Spend money you don't have. Drink 'til sunrise. The work never ends, but college does..." - Tom Petty

Wondering what's happening in Americas institutions of higher learning...and what an education is costing these days? Here's the collegiate-skinny.

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December 2007
- Nike Founder Just Does Lit
  
  Wall Street Journal | Dec 3, 07 2:37 PM CST
  
  (Newser) - Phil Knight had a seat at the front of the Nike boardroom for decades, but he sits in the back when he takes creative writing classes at Stanford . The 69-year-old alumnus is indulging his longstanding fascination with the written word by talking Hemingway with undergrads, reports the Wall Street Journal . More »
- In Higher Education, the Rich Get Richer
  
  BusinessWeek | Dec 3, 07 1:08 PM CST
  
  (Newser) - As Ivy League schools upgrade dorms, financial aid, and student-faculty ratios, America’s public universities are losing out, BusinessWeek reports. The "Ivy Plus" schools, which include Stanford and MIT, represent 1% of the US student population but are the richest by far. "We can add resources in almost every dimension," boasts Yale's president. More »
- Getting into Harvard not as Easy as P-R-E-P
  
  Wall Street Journal | Dec 1, 07 4:19 PM CST
  
  (Newser) - Ivy-League-seeking parents beware: admissions officers at top schools around the country are looking for more than just the private-school preppie. While private and prep schools still lead the way, a growing percentage of students at elite universities are public school grads and international scholars, the Wall Street Journal reveals. At Penn, international students compose 13% of the class of 2011. More »
- A Fight Club at U Chicago?!
  
  Chicago Maroon | Dec 1, 07 11:23 AM CST
  
  (Newser) - While the movie Fight Club spawned many imitators after its 1999 release, it took eight years for a fight club to emerge at the notoriously intellectual University of Chicago. Called Thunderdome, after the 1985 Mad Max movie, the fight club meets outdoors, on the quads on campus, late at night. There are up to eight fights a night, some lasting only seconds. More »
November 2007
- Why Is Harvard Escaping the RIAA’s Wrath?
  
  Ars Technica | Nov 27, 07 12:00 PM CST
  
  (Newser) - The RIAA has sent out 4,157 prelitigation settlement letters to a total of 160 schools this year, but Harvard’s mailboxes have remained noticeably empty. And it’s not for a lack of potentially illegal music downloading. More likely, Ars Technica speculates, the recording industry is afraid of two Harvard Law professors who are publicly hostile toward the anti-file-sharing crusade. More »
- College Gets Podcasted
  
  Los Angeles Times | Nov 24, 07 2:30 PM CST
  
  (Newser) - Want to attend Yale for free? Thanks to Apple, you sort of can. Many colleges, including Yale, Stanford and MIT, now offer free lecture downloads through iTunes U. You won’t get a diploma, but thousands of non-traditional learners don’t mind, the LA Times reports. “They thirst for understanding and knowledge,” said one podcasted prof. “Something revolutionary is happening.” More »
- Students Aim to Put Guns on Campus
  
  Time | Nov 22, 07 11:43 AM CST
  
  (Newser) - Thousands of college students think they have a way to make their campuses safer: more guns. Students with a license to carry concealed weapons should be able to do it on campus, argues the group Students for Concealed Carry on Campus. “It’s the basic right of self defense,” said one student. “Here on campus, we don’t have that right.” More »
- Price of Pill for Students Soars
  
  New York Times | Nov 22, 07 3:45 AM CST
  
  (Newser) - Female students at US colleges may be cutting back on reliable contraceptives because a quirk in a federal law has made birth-control pills up to four times more expensive, health officials warn. A recent change in Medicaid regulations means drug companies no longer offer big discounts to health centers where students and low-income women obtain the pills, the New York Times reports. More »
- Tenure Goes the Way of the Typewriter
  
  New York Times | Nov 20, 07 11:12 AM CST
  
  (Newser) - Tenured professors are looking rarer than motivated students on college campuses these days. To save money and allow greater flexibility, universities are loading up on part-time instructors, a trend some worry is lowering educational quality. Part-timers are less likely to have doctorates and, as they bounce from university to university, have less time to prepare or meet with students, the Times reports. More »
- House: No More College File Sharing!
  
  CNET | Nov 10, 07 11:02 AM CST
  
  (Newser) - House Dems have introduced a bill that would force universities to do more to crack down on illegal file sharing, on pain of yanking their federal aid. Schools would have to provide alternatives to illegally downloading music and movies, such as pay file-sharing sites. A letter signed by several top university bigwigs calls the threatened action "inappropriate and punitive." More »
- MIT Sues Gehry for Negligence
  
  Boston Globe | Nov 6, 07 5:35 PM CST
  
  (Newser) - One of the most famous buildings on the MIT campus is plagued by design flaws, the school says, and it has sued Frank Gehry, alleging the world-famous architect provided "deficient design services" for the $300 million project. The university paid Gehry $15 million to design the Stata Center, which opened in in 2004—and immediately began to fall apart, MIT charges. More »
- Oregon Moves to Quash RIAA Subpoenas
  
  Ars Technica | Nov 2, 07 3:08 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - The University of Oregon will support 17 students the RIAA accused of illegal file-sharing. Represented by the Oregon Attorney General's office, the university requested a federal judge invalidate the RIAA's subpoena seeking the students' names. The school argued the subpoena puts an undue burden on it to "create documents that do not exist, simply for the purposes of discovery," Ars Technica reports. More »
October 2007
- Canaries Get Company in Coal Mines: Recent Grads
  
  Christian Science Monitor | Oct 31, 07 4:30 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Coal-mining companies are successfully recruiting college kids, promising better work conditions than the industry’s muddied image might suggest, the Christian Science Monitor reports. Some 60% of the current workforce could retire over the next decade, and jobs are suddenly abundant; young people are finding themselves explaining to their parents that there’s money and career security to be found underground. More »
- Average Private College Tuition Rises to $32,307
  
  Bloomberg | Oct 22, 07 7:10 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - The average annual cost of attending a private four-year college increased nearly 4% to $32,307 this school year, the biggest increase since 2001, the College Board said today. Tuition at four-year public schools rose 3.8 percent to $13,589, the report said. The figures, adjusted for inflation, do not include room and board. More »
- Noose on Columbia Prof's Door Viewed as Hate Crime
  
  Associated Press | Oct 10, 07 12:57 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) -