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One Jane Eyre to go! When a professor goes in search of the mythical free-term papers which she suspects her students are turning in, she finds both more and less than she bargained for.
By Victoria Olsen
November 13, 1998
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Recent studies on the prevalence of binge drinking among college students tar all college tipplers with the same hyperbolic brush
By Sarah Rose
November 11, 1998
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The university's hypocritical stance against marijuana can prevent even the best of students from getting an education.
By Bebe Maddux
November 11, 1998
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An e-mail prankster fans the flames of controversy in the inner circles of queer studies, but the anticipated war never erupts.
By Etelka Lehoczky
November 9, 1998
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Why do we think that Ph.D.s are only good for making someone into a professor?
By Annalee Newitz
November 6, 1998
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One grad student virgin exposes the secrets of her tribe.
By Mindy Hung
November 5, 1998
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In a new book, intellectual gadfly Alan Sokal and co-author Jean Bricmont assail the demigods of French theory for their fraudulent use of high science. But does this mean all postmodern philosophy is bunk?
By Kristina Zarlengo
November 2, 1998
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Behind the pomp and circumstance of 24-hour news, one woman wonders how such a cool job can mean such a lousy life
By Fufkin Vollmayer
October 30, 1998
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What the college admissions brochure doesn't tell you about your freshman year
By Joshua Green
October 28, 1998
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While battling the critics of political correctness outside the university, the "tenured radical" also slams his fellow academics for failing to help graduate students and other untenured scholars organize.
By Michele Tepper
October 26, 1998
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The man who could have saved the dignity of the White House offers Practical Advice From a Guy Who Could Have Saved the Dignity of the Executive Office
By Rolf Potts
October 23, 1998
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Is the new optimistic movement in psychology a theoretical breakthrough or a professional survival tactic?
By Carol LLoyd
October 21, 1998
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Competing for grades is one thing. But facing off for parking spaces means all-out war
By Lori Gottlieb
October 16, 1998
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Nothing is so alien as your family during a college break.
By Chris Colin
October 14, 1998
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Like the devil, the corporate
mistress of student loans will get you in the end; but in the meantime
you can play her game for all you're worth.
By Kristina Blachere
October 12, 1998
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Do bad guys have a right to higher education?
By Dawn McKeen
October 9, 1998
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Protecting yourself from a life-threatening STD may be as simple as safe sex, but avoiding microbial diseases requires subtler methods.
By Dan Stern
October 7, 1998
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The first world pornography conference erupted in a carnival of porn stars, devoted wankers and earnest academics, but where was the scholarly debate?
By Carina Chocano
October 5, 1998
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If this campus parasite can make money and get laid, you can too.
By Hank Hyena
October 2, 1998
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Since young women stopped protesting Playboy's College Girls issue, the dirty old rabbit's coed peep show is looking pretty tired.
By Nicole Nolan
September 30, 1998
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A suggested merger between two departments at UC-Berkeley has partisans on both sides marking their territory.
By Joan Walsh
September 28, 1998
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While students increasingly sue professors for less-than-gushing recommendation letters, professors are subtly crafting their criticism in calculated ambiguities.
By Tyler Thoreson
September 24, 1998
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Introducing Camille on Campus: 'The Nurture Assumption' is a rambling, anecdotal memoir that reinforces America's lazy parenting
By Camille Paglia
September 23, 1998
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The lessons gleaned from an internship at an elite magazine are the stuff that dreams and nightmares are made of.
By Marc Herman
September 23, 1998
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After decades of debunking and naysaying, why have academics invited aliens into the ivory tower.
By Christina Valhouli
September 22, 1998
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