Ah, institutional racism, the gift that keeps on giving. In a twist of irony served with a shake of my damn head, a black professor at Minneapolis Community and Technical College was handed a formal reprimand after she attempted to explain to two white students the pervasiveness of structural racism.
A female Florida State student who accused the school's Heisman-contender quarterback Jameis Winston of sexual battery says that the police warned her against reporting the crime, since Tallahassee is a "big football town" and it might make her life more difficult if the public got wind of this sort of thing. You know,…
Everyone's favorite chapter of Young Conservatives of Texas is back with another shitty publicity stunt meant to foster dialogue about the issues at the University of Texas in Austin. After they hit the scene with their Affirmative Action Bake Sale (copied from the College Republicans of UC Berkeley
Unless you've been dwelling under a rock for the past couple of weeks, you've probably witnessed the raging debate surrounding college women, sexual assault, and drinking that all kicked off with that fun little number by Emily Yoffe, entitled "College Women: Stop Getting Drunk." While it's become quite evident that a…
If everyone jumped off a bridge, would you do it? How about if everyone were letting the cool older fraternity brothers snap you in the balls with towels? For one hopeful member of Wilmington College's Gamma Phi Gamma chapter, the kind of peer pressure his mom probably warned him about resulted in him being down one…
A student at a major university was asked to write an essay on pop culture and image. What this student did, instead, was copy and paste a blog post that I wrote and slap his name on it.
Every year, freshman at Stanford University, their high school nerdstink still clinging to their strategically selected college reinvention outfits, gather on a quad to be ushered into the prestigious school's community by polite, consent-seeking upperclassmen. You'd think the tradition — known colloquially as the…
Ohio State University campus denizens are about to be down one creepy as hell — albeit entertainingly delusional — self-proclaimed pickup artist after a diverse cross-section of the student body banded together to call him out on his predatory antics. Here's the story of how he got taken down, and how he vowed to…
Multiple students at University of California Irvine forwarded us an email blast from their college Career Center that was sent out early Monday morning with helpful tips on "How to Ace That Job Interview." But along the lines of that cool law firm memo
Hey gals, gather around for some Real Talk: did you know that America's college rape epidemic is all in our jungle juice-addled slutty imaginations? At least, according to a column posted by US News & World Report, it is.
Let's all take a moment to thank various powerful messaging entities — online advice columnists whose names rhyme with Femily Foffe, evil-looking Fox News "legal experts" — for picking up the "stop getting raped" mantle and really running for the end zone with it and then spiking a football in rape victims' faces over the …
In this economy, getting a job is harder than keeping people's attention after you start sentences with "in this economy." But one overeager and underreserved college senior really doesn't seem to understand the ins and outs of job-getting.
This morning, Slate ran a rape prevention piece by Emily Yoffe with the aggressive headline: COLLEGE WOMEN: STOP GETTING DRUNK. Subhed: "It's closely associated with sexual assault. And yet we're reluctant to tell women to stop doing it." The URL of the piece advertises telling silly women to stop drinking is "the best…
Last week, a gross, rapey email sent to the entirety Georgia Tech's Phi Kappa Tau fraternity by the house's social chair went viral
Is there anything that stupid assholes love more than unfunny rape jokes? The latest installment in the saga of the neverending love affair between awful men and the women who don't want to have sex with them comes from one of the Phi Kappa Tau brothers at Georgia Tech, and it's a doozy. Called "Luring Your Rapebait,"…
The Boston College Confessions Facebook page usually serves as an anonymous forum for BC kids to let off some steam, a place to air their PG-rated unflattering private thoughts in public. Harmless, cheap web therapy. But yesterday, the site posted a confession that's so awful I'm literally shaking after reading it — a …
Another shitty repercussion of the government shutdown
In 1972, Rutgers University admitted its first women. Now, forty-one years later, the University has finally gotten around to changing the lyrics of the school's alma mater so it's not all about going to Rutgers and becoming a man because your dad told you to. Uh, yay? I guess?
Or, at least one specific college does — a study conducted last April at Boston College has found that female seniors left the institution with lower self-confidence than when they began as freshmen. These results are depressing, but they're not really that surprising.
Women are doing better than ever in school, and sometimes their male significant others can't stand to see them succeed.
Occidental College will pay the price for repeatedly mishandling sexual assault allegations: senior officials agreed to pay an undisclosed sum to the the 50 current and former students and faculty members who, with the help of Gloria Allred, filed a federal Title IX complaint in April.
At least one hetero undergrad at Smith College, a private, independent women's liberal arts college in Northampton, Massachusetts, feels "marginalized" because she's not a butch lesbo. The solution: an exclusive sorority for straight girls seeking boys, cupcakes, and Lily Pulitzer photoshoots.
Working a shit job in a cube zoo hell-Labyrinth is a soul-sucking way for a woman to spend her twenties; attending graduate school so she can compose a thesis on menstrual shaming in early Gaelic literature is a money-sucking way for a woman to spend her twenties. But there's one way a woman can waste a few years of…
If Robin the director of the “Blurred Lines” video that the internet has gender-swapped
Yale released eight hypothetical scenarios that might fall under its "nonconsensual sex" umbrella in response to criticism
Students at Swarthmore and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill filed federal complaints this year accusing the universities of improperly handling sexual misconduct. Now they're facing a new form of on-campus harassment: anti-activist graffiti.
If you're an 18-year-old adult woman on the fence about whether or not your parents "should" "let" you go to college, fret no more! The internet provides, as always, in the form of this staggeringly terrible listicle from FixTheFamily.com (which, as far as I can tell, is a machine where you put in Catholicism and the…
College campuses, of all places, really shouldn’t be settings for spontaneous pro-rape chants, but we apparently live in a world where they are because just a week ago today, students attending a three-day orientation event put on for the University of British Columbia’s Saunder School of Business devolved into mob of…
A full two years after a sexual assault complaint sparked a federal investigation
The college rape scandal du jour concerns University of Michigan football player Brendan Gibbons, and it's a tale as old as time: Entitled athlete's female friend says he raped her at a party. She considers pressing charges but decides not to after being intimidated by his teammate and more or less ignored by her…
