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Fordham Students Outraged By Corrupt Dean
Blatant corruption, criminal misdoings or a simple pharmaceutical mistake? Students at Fordham University are crying foul after the Dean of Students expelled a potentially innocent student.
Latest comment by Anonymous: obviously the post above was written by someone who knows all the facts of the case (public and private) so obviously we defer to your expert knowledge. The rest of us will have to assume we don't have all the... MORE »
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"Discrimated" Ex-Dartmouth Prof Seeks Refuge at NU
This is a bad, bad idea.   Haven't you heard, Ms. Venkatesan? The Wildcats are way meaner than those Dartmouth darlings you've been dealing with.
Latest comment by Anonymous: This post is DISTRUBING.
"We promise we won't make you cry. Or quit.
Maybe."
If this is representative of how college students act, then maybe what the professor alleges... MORE »
Political Science professor A. James Gregor hates a lot of things. He hates Marxists and bellybuttons, Birkenstocks, and undergraduates. He despises callous language, smiling, and public displays of affection. Most importantly though? He hates being disrupted.

So if y... MORE »
Link: http://ratemyprofessors.com/ShowRatings.jsp?tid=35...
Latest comment by Anonymous: gregor is finest in the whole world. 10-years in college and no one comes close.

Digital age
Digital colleges.

Someone should tape all his lectures: audio, video for the fu... MORE »
Graham Spanier Wastes Space In Daily Collegian

Wow, we're really picking on The Collegian this week, but it's like every day we look at it, throw up a little in out mouth, and then have to write something about it. We didn't pick up an actual copy of today's Collegian (have you looked outside? We're not going out in that mes

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Finance Professor Dr. Boyce Watkins has been getting some national attention these days. Watkins, who has voiced his opinions on CNN, Fox News, Time, Hot97 radio station (to name a few), did not take Bill O'Reilly's latest idiodic comments lightly. 

For those living under a rock, O'Reilly s... MORE »
Rate My Professor on MTV!
Want to apprise Gordon Teskey of your undying love for him? Or blame Gregory Mankiw for the economic recession? Want them to hear it from you, and countless others, in front of a national television audience? 

mtvU is starting a new show, Rate My Professor, that gives professors the chance to react to their ra... MORE »
CDT Reporter In Middle of Defamation Lawsuit. Also Teaching News Writing at PSU
UPDATE: local blogger Veblen (who really needs to post more often) helps us all out by getting those articles written by Thomas/Bosak. They can be read here, along with an article on an unsuccessful lawsuit Banyan filed against the Penn State to s... MORE »
Latest comment by veblen: ha-mace, here's the CDT/Jennifer Thomas Banyan collection. For background sake, I've also included an article on an, ultimately unsuccessful, lawsuit which Banyan filed against the University to stop the sale of Circleville Farm.
PSU Vice President for Student Affairs Resigns, Students Yawn
Embattled vice president for student affairs, Vicky Triponey announced her immediate resignation tonight to the surprise of many. In a prepared statement released by the University, Triponey says she's taking a "much-needed (and hopefully well-deser... MORE »
Link: http://www.centredaily.com/393/story/206687.html
The following film is from Psych 335 at the University of Michigan. The educational content is of no importance, but please note the following times: 0:07, 0:49, 1:19, 1:25, 2:21, and 2:59.

The class had wondered whether this cracking was from a first day nervousness. Maybe he was getting over a cold... MORE »
Latest comment by Anonymous: Lame.
UMich History Professor Strikes Back!
Professor Juan Cole is a tad testy over the suggestion that his lectures and assigned reading are boring.

“Yes, apparently one of the problems with taking college classes you have to read… books and alas, they’re mostly not thrillers,” he tells viewers of MTV’s Professors Strike Back. “So I’m so sorry tha... MORE »
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