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Ivory Tower

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Recommendation wars
While students increasingly sue professors for less-than-gushing recommendation letters, professors are subtly crafting their criticism in calculated ambiguities.
By Tyler Thoreson Sep 24, 1998
From screaming babies to screaming college students
Introducing Camille on Campus: 'The Nurture Assumption' is a rambling, anecdotal memoir that reinforces America's lazy parenting
By Camille Paglia Sep 23, 1998
Confessions of Harper's Serf
The lessons gleaned from an internship at an elite magazine are the stuff that dreams and nightmares are made of.
By Marc Herman Sep 23, 1998
Ufology
After decades of debunking and naysaying, why have academics invited aliens into the ivory tower.
By Christina Valhouli Sep 22, 1998
Sacred rites of an acid house
Beyond the bad food and the bad poetry, a tribe of students seek life's mysteries in a collective hallucination.
By Isaac Zaur Sep 21, 1998
Going adjunct
When all the postal workers have been sedated and locked away, will adjunct professors follow in their gun-powdered footsteps?
By Andreas Killen Sep 17, 1998
Vocational fiction 101
Writing the perfect resume takes more than extensive experience, it takes a perverse imagination.
By Carol Lloyd Sep 16, 1998
Penile ponderings
When a professor asks you to grope your friend's organs for extra credit, what's the right thing to do?
By Lori Gottlieb Sep 15, 1998
The $10,000 hoop
Has higher education become an exercise in futility for most Americans?
By Zachary Karabell Sep 14, 1998
Historians who know fact from fiction
Despite what the cultural studies boosters might have you think, there are serious contemporary historians who do empirical research.
By Sean McMeekin Jan 12, 1998
Is history dead?
Cultural studies scholars are ravaging the facts to suit their bassackward theories.
By Sean McMeekin Jan 12, 1998
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