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…
Are you following Humans of New York on Instagram and Facebook and with your heart? Because if you're not, you almost missed out on a seriously cool story from seriously impressive New Yorker that is warming the cockles of the hearts of the internet on a particularly dreary-seeming day.
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…
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Federal Student Aid, the part of the U.S. Department of Education that puts out FAFSA (the Free Application for Federal Student Aid), sent out a tweet Tuesday evening that a. people paid attention to and b. they did not enjoy.
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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…
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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.
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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…
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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…
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I'm willing to bet that one of the strongest associations Americans have with the collegiate experience is with alcohol.
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Though the mainstream media seems to be endlessly fascinated with every facet of millennial life, few outlets are able (or more likely, willing) to capture the nuanced truth that fails to align neatly with sensationalist headlines. One of the most notorious (and mind-numbingly annoying) topics middle-aged journalists…
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Your school lets students get raped by their fellow classmates. Your school lets those rapists live in the same buildings and go to the same classes as the people they rape. Your school doesn't suspend or expel those rapists. Your school doesn't know what to do because it isn't a part of the criminal justice system.…
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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.
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One of the strongest memories I have from the summer before I left for college was cleaning out a closet full of about a decade's worth of accumulated junk. I think it took me the better part of a week to sort through an impressive array of stuffed animals, various trophies of participation given to all of the equally…
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It's graduation time for a lot of college students around the country. As they make their way across the stage to collect their diplomas—many of them saddled with tens of thousands of dollars in student loan debt and little or no job prospects—a dark question looms: Was it actually worth it?
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The fact that some students are requesting trigger warnings for college class materials is incredibly important and should be commended. Campuses should take them very seriously. We all should. But they are still a terrible idea.
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On Monday, former New York Times executive editor Jill Abramson delivered her commencement address to the Wake Forest University class of 2014, recommending the students practice being resilient, even when they face setbacks. "When that happens, show what you are made of," she said.
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Christine Lagarde, first female managing director of the International Monetary Fund, has withdrawn from the Smith College 2014 graduation where she was slated to be the commencement speaker after students and faculty began protesting her inclusion in the ceremony.
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Fed up with their school's inadequate response to sexual assault on campus, an anonymous group of Columbia University students have taken matters into their own hands. But they're not relying on the court system to force the University to address the problem; they're posting so-called "rapist lists" in women's…
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College kids love acting like finals week is the worst thing that's ever happened to them. They hole up in the library and fashion themselves yurts made of hoodies, Gatorade bottles, and Funyans bags and loudly pray for death. I used to do this. My friends did this. And really, in retrospect, it wasn't that bad. The I…
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On Tuesday, the Amherst College Board of Trustees announced that the school would be banning off-campus fraternities and sororities starting this summer, citing concerns about sexual assault. Students who break this rule will be subject to suspension or expulsion.
