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Julia Allison Wants Northwestern to Turn Into a Public School

Julia Allison Wants Northwestern to Turn Into a Public School

Wired covergirl and Gawker staple, Julia Allison (claim to fame: being an internet nobody), is sick and tired of "really rich" kids getting the university treatment while the rest of the world suffers in ignorance. And of course, she let the Dean hear her opinion.

 

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Latest comment by Anonymous: You're a ****ing idiot. MIT posts all their courses online - but Northwestern's too good to do it? Please.

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NorthwesternPost Graduation

The Real World: Northwestern

The Real World: Northwestern

Our Northwestern editor always seems to be in the know about the latest in quasi-celebrity happenings around town (Anderson Cooper's boy toy makes an appearence this time).

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Latest comment by Anonymous: actually, that source was me (you douche). if they air it, check out an NU alum awkwardly try to talk to the mormon drinking the shirley temple at the bar, and then, get dissed. gonna be a classic.

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UAH Huntsville, UAB Birmingham, University of AlabamaText Worthy

University of Alabama Makes "Discovery": Bloggers are Neurotic

University of Alabama Makes "Discovery": Bloggers are Neurotic

 

University of Alabama scientists hop on the New Media wagon and point fingers at neurotic bloggers.

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Howard, UC Berkeley, Syracuse UniversityText Worthy

Gawker's Hamilton Nolan Wishes Death Upon the College Newspaper

Gawker's Hamilton Nolan Wishes Death Upon the College Newspaper

Hamilton Nolan is over the college newspaper, which should come as no surprise given the Gawker stable's take on print media.

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Mizzou, UConn, St John's UniversityWacky Faculty

Mindless Chatter from College Professors

Mindless Chatter from College Professors

It’s summer, and you’d think you could finally escape their rambling lectures. Think again. Today we’ve rounded up news stories with college professors who just can’t keep their mouths shut.

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University of Michigan, ColumbiaCampus Characters

Hot College Dropout: Jessica Coen

Hot College Dropout: Jessica Coen
Hot College Dropout: Jessica CoenHot College Dropout: Jessica CoenHot College Dropout: Jessica Coen

Celeb-obsessed, wannabe bloggers with no plans for a Master’s degree, there may be hope for you. Jessica Coen stealthily slithered away from J-School into the lucrative, licentious world of Gawker Media and into a solid job at New York magazine.

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Latest comment by Anonymous: celebrity bloggers are the most useless vermin that claim some kind of journalistic intergrity.

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College OTROff Campus

Student Report: Interning at Fox News

Student Report:  Interning at Fox News

Editor's Note:  This is a reposting of the author's original entry.  It was removed per the request of her employers after Gawker and Jossip picked up on the story.


Hollywood is hard.

And by hard I mean…fickle.

I’m sitting here at work, doing l

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Latest comment by Anonymous: ummmm, this isn't "Livejournal" get off of OTR.
we don't want to hear about your day.

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TuftsBitchin 'N Moanin

Gawker Agrees: Just Stop, Facebook. Just Stop.

Gawker Agrees: Just Stop, Facebook. Just Stop.
Looks like I'm not the only one who hates Facebook's new "People You May Know." Since my post bitching about it, the New York Observer and Gawker have both reported on how hard the feature sucks. (Think they were reading Tufts OTR? Hey, a blogger can dream.)

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NorthwesternNews

Collegiate Plagiarism: All Over the Place!

Collegiate Plagiarism: All Over the Place!
Gawker.com just released a map pinpointing all the incidents of "creative borrowing" in college newspapers in the last three years.

The Daily makes it on the map for the 2006 incident when a students copied text from an article that had already been published in The Daily in 2004. That's... MORE »
Latest comment by blondie: I wish they'd elaborate. I'm curious to know what the Dec 2006 incident at the Badger Herald is...
Hmmm...
Thanks for the link, DJ PM!

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Wesleyan UniversityNews

Apparently, This Comic Did Make Us the Most Annoying Liberal Arts College

Apparently, This Comic Did Make Us the Most Annoying Liberal Arts College
Unfortunately, it looks like Joe Newman has managed to get himself into the negative media spotlight yet again (some may remember his unfortunate experience on the ACB last year). 

It seems Gawker got a hold of his comic (posted here a few days ago) and used it a... MORE »
Latest comment by The Cynical Romantic: Well said, well said.

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