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Famous College Dropouts Who Should Probably Have Stayed In School

Famous College Dropouts Who Should Probably Have Stayed In School

Sure education is important, but sometimes doesn’t it seem like the media glorifies a lack of education just a little bit? There are tons of congratulatory stories about billionaire dropouts and other successful flunkies.
 

Of course lots of people don’t attend college or dropout and still do very well in life. Take Snoop Dogg, for example, who...

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Gawker's Hamilton Nolan Wishes Death Upon the College Newspaper

Gawker's Hamilton Nolan Wishes Death Upon the College Newspaper

Gawker reporter Hamilton Nolan has had enough of college newspapers and would probably only consider them useful if shaped into sanitary napkins. Much like media at large, print journalism at the college level has become an often unprofitable endeavor, at times constipated with journalistic seriousness, also known as static self-indulgent preten...

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Fresh Cream: All the News We Missed

Fresh Cream: All the News We Missed

Co-ed Magazine’s Howard blogger, Ron, reported that several major universities, including Penn, Yale, UMass and Tufts, are considering banning beer pong. Oh, the horror!

 

Over at College Candy, a Northeastern student suggested that Paris Hilton should run for president in November. “That’s hot.”

 

The former president of South Carolina State Un...

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Fresh Cream: All the News We Missed

Fresh Cream:  All the News We Missed

* Uncoached is wondering if it was the goal of this Rutgers grad to become a gay nude model.

 

* Noa from Colorado is asking College Candy if really, really enjoying lots of sex makes her a slut.

 

* Calling all D.C.-area grads! You won’t believe the journalism job description FishbowlDC found on Craigslist.

 

* The Prereq has the details on UC ...

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Book For the Beach: Dear American Airlines

Book For the Beach: Dear American Airlines

Dear American Airlines

Jonathan Miles

 

You might not want to crack another book until fall semester, but one of the summer's best beach reads, Dear American Airlines, is witty, hysterical and (thank God!) a mere 180 pages.  You'll breeze through it before you even finish a six-pack.

 

The book’s main character, Benjamin Ford, is stranded at Ch...

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Pepsi Partners with Howard To Honor Fathers

Pepsi Partners with Howard To Honor Fathers
The Pepsi Corporation is partnering with Howard University again -- this time for a nod to Father's Day in the star-studded booklet "Four Weeks for Father." The booklet will feature prominent fathers from the African-American community, including Grammy winning hip hop artist Common, former football player (and Dancing with the Stars contestant)

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The Campus Drink: Signature Cocktails

The Campus Drink: Signature Cocktails
Every campus is unique, but some have very specific tastes when it comes to drinking. If you hang out with the party crowd from any of these campuses, you will be drinking the "campus drink" at some point in the evening. I got the low-down on the "signature" drinks or cocktails at some of the hottest campuses.

As a representative of the UW-Mad

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High School Nerds and Losers Doomed

High School Nerds and Losers Doomed
If you thought those awful high school days were behind you and you could reinvent yourself at college, think again. Researchers at CareerBuilder.com surveyed over 6,000 full-time workers age 30 and older to categorize their high school persona, and then compared those personas in terms of job level, salary, industry and job satisfaction.

The

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$10 Well Spent: Absinthe Gummi Bears

$10 Well Spent:  Absinthe Gummi Bears
From the genius of hunky, tattooed chef Sam Manson comes a glorious new gelatin creation: Absinthe Gummi Bears.

According to the guys at UrbanDaddy, the bears are 85% absinthe, “with just a touch of gelatin and sugar added to keep things solid.”

The good news? You don’t even have to order booze to snag one! Bears are served as a compliment t

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Must-Have Summer Tech: Van Der Led WM2

Must-Have Summer Tech: Van Der Led WM2

Remember Dick Tracy, the snazzy yellow trench coat-wearing detective with the walkie-talkie wristwatch? No? Well, Van Der Led, a European electronics manufacturer, apparently does since their new WM2 device looks like a modernized version of Tracy’s signature watch. 

However, instead of a walkie-talkie, the WM2 features a built-in quad-band GSM...

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