Forget about the Oscars or that whole Presidential election thing.  This is the most important race of the year:

I am happy to announce two OTR blogs have been nominated as one of the "Best Alternative Media Outlets" in USNEWS' "Best of College Newspapers 2007" contest.  Show some love and vote for them now using the below link:

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BusinessWeek posted a really interesting story, "Facebook Faces Up," about a variety of college-specific web sites gaining traction against Facebook by specifically courting the college audience.  The story featured OTR.  It's an interesting read -- we've heard many students discuss how Facebook is losing relevancy as the site quickly eschews it

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Because they find the best the Internets have to offer, like the above video referenced in a brilliant Cornell post by The Reverend Al Scharfman.

The best part: "My dream is to drop out of school and star in Girls Gone Wild."

Stay in school, everyone.

OK, so this doesn't have really anything to do with O.T.R. news, but we thought it was cool --

This video, from a great blog Wesleying (it covers... Wesleyan), is absolutely mesmerizing.  Created to promote a new book of confiscated high school notes (the kind that are passed in class surreptitiously), you can read more about the video's origin

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I'll let the review (from a popular Cornell alumni blog) speak for itself:

New Cornell Blog Runs Circles Around MetaEzra

 

There’s a new student-run blog on East Hill, and it is everything that MetaEzra is not. Smart, suave, and sassy.

Off The Record – Cornell University, has been cranking out hilarious and irreverent posts for the past coupl...

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What's up, my name is Doug, and I'm the Founder of OTR I also started theU.com, a web site that helps high school kids pick colleges. I graduated from Columbia in 2005. 

OTR is a new network of campus-specific blogs covering everything and anything of interest to college students. From hot students, crazy professors, to ... drive-by shootings 

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