Universities

Desperately unhappy in the top Ivy League school
I want to work in New York publishing, and I know this is the route, but I'm miserable and depressed.
I'm a new university student. How do I make friends?
I like my solitude, but I can't do it all alone. There are 40,000 students here. Any advice?
I'm an analytical chemist with a two-body problem
My girlfriend is going to Berkeley; should I take a dream job in Toronto?
How can we get back the thrill in our relationship?
We're Stanford juniors in love, but the initial fizz is gone.
Graduate schools can drive you crazy
Why do arts graduate schools, in particular, bring out our vulnerabilities?
I could have had celebrity sex -- but I stuck to my principles
I fell hard for a high-level business leader -- until she abruptly turned off the charm.
To teach or not to teach? Campus politics has got me twisted around
I'd like to teach a course that my subordinate wanted to teach -- should I do it or refuse?
Fired for being Israeli
Two noted Israeli scholars have been sacked from European journals, victims of a boycott against Israel. Why are progressive intellectuals descending to such bankrupt tactics?
Right-wing colleges reject "God is an abortionist" ads
Thrilled to hear David Horowitz's pronouncement that "campus censors are on the run," I try a little free speech of my own -- at Bob Jones U. and other conservative schools.
Letters to the editor
Barney Frank clarifies he's no big fan of Steve Forbes Plus: Women should deal with sexism in college -- just like men do! Geek sex -- a waste of marketable energy?
MP3 crackdown
As the recording industry "educates" universities about digital music piracy, students feel the heat.
List this
See how U.S. News & World Report's annual ranking of colleges stacks up against other media listings.
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.
Creeps on campus
Do bad guys have a right to higher education?
The $10,000 hoop
Has higher education become an exercise in futility for most Americans?
The loafing class
Shiftless, lazy good-for-nothings? Try the richly paid leftist professors securely ensconced in their irrelevant ivory towers.
Novelists 'R' Us
Salon Magazine for April 1, 1997: Novelists 'R' Us by Laura Miller

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