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Campus Beat: Good Reporting For Once, the Ivy League, Drugs As Usual

By Emily Rutherford - Nov 24th, 2008 at 9:30 am

Nothing wrong with a little aggressive self-promotion: this week’s Campus Beat headline goes to a political demonstration at Princeton that I’m helping to organize. The…

Even Princeton

By Emily Rutherford - Nov 21st, 2008 at 4:26 pm

When students from Princeton joined representatives from other universities in New York City for a major march against the Vietnam War, they carried a banner…

College Computing Comes Full Circle

By Emily Rutherford - Oct 27th, 2008 at 5:44 pm

The early days of computer use at American universities revolved around huge mainframes running the Unix operating system, which was developed as a multiuser system.…

Ruth Bader Ginsburg on “The Lighter Side of the Supreme Court”

By Emily Rutherford - Oct 24th, 2008 at 5:39 pm

Yesterday, I had the good fortune to hear Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg speak at my campus. Seemingly everyone I know at Princeton packed…

Free Bike? No, It’s Not Being Offered By a Creepy Guy in a Van

By Tristan Fowler - Oct 23rd, 2008 at 9:36 am

How’s this for innovation? Colleges and universities are giving away free bikes so students don’t bring their carbon-spewing, planet-killing cars to campus. The University of…

Campus Beat: Short-form Edition

By Emily Rutherford - Oct 20th, 2008 at 12:10 pm

I couldn’t pare down the news to fewer than 12 items this week, so I’ll offer one-line summaries for your reading convenience.

Some rather interesting…

UPDATE: UTexas Folds, Embraces Free Speech

By Pedro de la Torre - Oct 9th, 2008 at 3:42 pm

Earlier today, I wrote about how the University of Texas had threatened two students with eviction from their dorm room and a block on their…

UTexas Threatens to Evict Students for Political Signs

By Pedro de la Torre - Oct 9th, 2008 at 2:19 pm

Two students at the University of Texas – Austin are being threatened with eviction from the dorms, and even with being barred from registering for…

See: The Campus Valley

By Diana Jou - Sep 3rd, 2008 at 11:00 am