Once upon a time, driver's licenses were simple hunks of plastic, which meant fake IDs were relatively easy to create and acquire. Now that every state festoons the damn things with holograms, they're more expensive—and yet they're more popular than ever. » 7/24/14 5:15pm 7/24/14 5:15pm

The Ohio State University marching band is in some shit after an investigation revealed the band to be more or less Porky's with tubas and kettle drums. A report stemming from the university's two-month investigation has quite a few details on the internal goings-on of the Best Damn Band in the Land, including the… » 7/24/14 3:49pm 7/24/14 3:49pm

Praise the almighty technology gods for they may have made your fall roommate search humane again, thanks to an app called RoomSync. » 7/22/14 11:00am 7/22/14 11:00am

You can't have a conversation about the utter failure that is the millennial generation without a grandiose and reductive statement that avoids the context of the issues you're discussing. At the Aspen Ideas Festival, an entire panel was centered around one such statement: "Kids these days, they just don't know how to… » 7/03/14 4:40pm 7/03/14 4:40pm

Post secondary education in America is not exactly what it's cracked up to be (unless we're strictly talking about debt). Check out this piece by Kevin Carey in the New York Times exploring that while the US is quick to highlight the failures of our K-12 education, our college graduates are also falling behind… » 6/28/14 4:40pm 6/28/14 4:40pm

Prominent Tea Party Thought-attempters have launched something they're calling "Conservative University," a series of online video lectures designed to spread the tenets of conservatism to a younger, plugged in generation of dweebs who are into watching online lectures in their free time. So far, the only course… » 6/24/14 1:00pm 6/24/14 1:00pm

Before he was everyone's favorite bashful, differently-legged prison guard, Matt McGorry was just a regular old college kid—sipping Nantucket Nectars on the quad, tossing a disc around with the frolf bros, wearing a sweatshirt probably, and acting in no-budget student films like Gizor and Gorm. McGorry plays Gorm. » 6/19/14 4:40pm 6/19/14 4:40pm

Three James Madison University Sigma Chi fraternity members who filmed themselves sexually assaulting a woman on spring break and then distributed the film to others via social media received quite the punishment from their college: a permanent ban from campus. After they graduate. What the fuck, James Madison… » 6/19/14 4:00pm 6/19/14 4:00pm

Faced with a staggering tuition bill and few scholarships and grants to close the gap between what she could pay and what her college demanded, Duke student Miriam Weeks became porn's Belle Knox by necessity. Now, ironically, the money she's made doing porn has disqualified her for what little financial aid she'd been… » 6/17/14 1:40pm 6/17/14 1:40pm

Men's magazine GQ has a feature titled "The Best College Towns in America." Which made us wonder: Do any of those towns host schools that are under Title IX investigation? Answer: Yes. » 6/05/14 3:20pm 6/05/14 3:20pm