Ivory Tower

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It's all about parties -- and the bottom line
Every year the Radcliffe Publishing Course inducts another group of recent graduates into the glamour and drudgery of publishing.
The breakdown of consciousness
Confronted by the discoveries of artificial intelligence, some philosophers are questioning the very minds that keep their profession afloat.
Historiographic revisionism
DNA evidence shows that Jefferson fathered at least one of Sally Hemings' children, and his academic defenders are scurrying to cover their tracks.
What do Jefferson and Clinton have in common (besides randyness)?
Answer: they're both protected by a group of credulous historians.
Jane Eyre, to go
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.
Seven deadly sins: Myths of bingeing
Recent studies on the prevalence of binge drinking among college students tar all college tipplers with the same hyperbolic brush
Seven deadly sins: The student stoner dilemma
The university's hypocritical stance against marijuana can prevent even the best of students from getting an education.
Is the emperor of queer theory naked?
An e-mail prankster fans the flames of controversy in the inner circles of queer studies, but the anticipated war never erupts.
Out of academia
Why do we think that Ph.D.s are only good for making someone into a professor?
Seven deadly sins: Waiting to be unzipped
One grad student virgin exposes the secrets of her tribe.
Idiot Savants?
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?
Confessions of a news nun
Behind the pomp and circumstance of 24-hour news, one woman wonders how such a cool job can mean such a lousy life
Seven deadly sins: Beer, babes and beatings
What the college admissions brochure doesn't tell you about your freshman year
Michael Bérubé's difficult balancing act
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.
Monica Lewinsky beat me out of an internship
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
The power of positive shrinking
Is the new optimistic movement in psychology a theoretical breakthrough or a professional survival tactic?
Seven deadly sins: Survival of the earliest
Competing for grades is one thing. But facing off for parking spaces means all-out war
Geometry and hot pix
Nothing is so alien as your family during a college break.
Financial roulette with Sallie Mae
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.
Creeps on campus
Do bad guys have a right to higher education?
My crabs or yours?
Protecting yourself from a life-threatening STD may be as simple as safe sex, but avoiding microbial diseases requires subtler methods.
Scholars of smut
The first world pornography conference erupted in a carnival of porn stars, devoted wankers and earnest academics, but where was the scholarly debate?
Escaping college poverty
If this campus parasite can make money and get laid, you can too.
Playboy goes limp without feminist vice grip
Since young women stopped protesting Playboy's College Girls issue, the dirty old rabbit's coed peep show is looking pretty tired.
As American as ethnic studies
A suggested merger between two departments at UC-Berkeley has partisans on both sides marking their territory.
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