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When Yale University introduced gender neutral housing for seniors, it was an experiment to see what happens when people stop being polite and start getting real, and also a test to see whether male/female cohabitation might work for the general student population. And after a trial period allowing upperclassmen to live with whomever they please, the mind bendingly awful results are in: almost no one is against gender integrated housing, and more than 2/3 of students say they're interested in partaking in yearlong boy/girl sleepovers. The horror! More »
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With the launch of the .xxx domain, purveyors of porn are eagerly snapping up descriptive domains. But another type of entity entirely is showing its appetite for porn domains: colleges and universities. They're not doing it so that it's easier for their cash-strapped students to sell their bodies in order to fund their educations; they're doing it to keep porn companies from launching Your University-themed smut sites. More »
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Despite continued news about women's academic success in college, concerns are growing that male students still call the shots. One symptom, according to some, would be what we'll call "fashion inequality." Specifically, it's only the ladies who are getting all dolled up. More »
]]> http://jezebel.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5835318&view=rss&microfeed=true "Ensuring women's rights in Saudi Arabia is not about opening larger universities, it's really about ensuring that women are allowed to study all fields and to be able to find future employment in these fields," says Khalife. More »
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Learning is down! Psychiatric medication is up! More »
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Sun Devilry, that is. The dancin'-est Palin reportedly purchased a home near Tempe, Arizona, fueling rumors that a college career could be in her future. Will Arizona State University, "the Harvard of date rape," be ready for this jelly? More »
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Purdue University paper The Exponent ran a supposedly funny cartoon Friday depicting a sex position it called "The Prestige." But to many readers, it looked a lot like rape. More »
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The University of Oklahoma's first-ever coed floor brings up an important question about college students' living space: should gender-segregated housing be a thing of the past? More »
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New web services allow college freshman to pick their roommates based on compatibility. We think it's a crappy idea. More »
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Yesterday the Columbia Missourian (staffed by students at the Missouri School of Journalism) published a really excellent, extremely sad, piece on a student who just graduated, but was forced to spend her senior year reeling in the aftermath of rape. More »
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Why are women's colleges still relevant? As Salon's Margaret Eby points out, it's not because women can't handle playing with the boys. More »
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a biological sciences major from Gary, Indiana, and the University of Notre Dame's first African-American valedictorian. [ND Today] More »
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• For the May Vogue Mexico cover, Gisele Bündchen pulled virtually the same pose that was captured on the April cover of American Vogue. [DesignScene]
• Miley Cyrus wears a silver corset that costs $25,000 in her latest music video. [Us]

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A 20-year-old student was expelled from Brazil's Bandeirante University (Uniban) Sunday after hundreds of her classmates rioted over the length of her skirt. More »
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Save the beer, vomit and weed jokes: Masik Collegiate Fragrances of Harrisburg, Pa. makes perfumes that capture the essence of an alma mater. Katie Masik came up with the concept a year and a half ago and went into business with her family, designing perfumes that "are both literal interpretations of campus smells and the mental image of the school" and apparently catering to a crowd that enjoyed college a lot more than we did. Accordingly, eau de Penn State has notes of "vanilla, lilac rose and white patchouli;" the men's version is heavy on blue cypress. Those of us who went to urban schools may call for a more assertive fragrance. [NPR] More »
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"Try asking out a female arts student for a date. You won't be disappointed as a new study shows that young woman studying arts are most likely to be sexually active," begins an article in today's Times of India. By the same token, apparently anyone asking "male science students" for a "date" is looking for "disaster," since these guys tend to skew inexperienced. Smarmy shorthand aside, we have a few questions about this study's somewhat disturbing results...anecdotal ones, of course! More »
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• Excitement over Tama, a hat-wearing cat who has been dubbed the mascot of a train tation in a small Japanese town, has pumped $10 million into the town's economy. • A new Canadian study suggests that gay men have a 12% lower income than straight men and lesbians have a 15% higher income than hetero women. • Doctors can now determine how long a woman has until she reaches menopause by testing hormone levels in her blood. • Mary Pickford's autograph book with the signatures of Benito Mussolini, Amelia Earhart and Thomas Edison is expected to go for $8,000 at auction. • More »
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Participation in sports is generally thought to improve self-esteem and promote a healthy body image. But according to a recent study, undergraduate women who participate in sports and exercise regularly are actually more likely to exhibit eating disorder behaviors than women who don't. The problem is even more pronounced among women who participate in the more prestigious levels of athletic competition (for example, a top female soccer player is more more likely to have an eating disorder than someone who plays Ultimate Frisbee with her friends on the weekend): Researchers say that women who experience higher anxiety about their athletic performance are even more likely to be dissatisfied with their bodies and suffer from eating disorders. More »
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Barack Obama's already left Berlin, but the pictures remain. The last time I personally saw the Victory Column, I was 20 and in the midst of Berlin's enormous gay pride parade. Watching young men puke in the bushes while people passed by in front of a stone column was way less impressive than seeing a 20-foot-longpaper maché penis float through the Brandenburg Gate — which makes a better backdrop for everything, really. But the Bush Administration didn't want that backdrop for Obama any more than they probably want to see large penises around Washington, so the Victory Column had to do. Does it really matter what he said? Moe and I say not really, not when we can discuss Rudy Giuliani's Lawsuit-Happy Gilmore, Matthew Yglesias's haters, Michael Savage's stupidity, power, privilege and Duke, SATs, ADHD, Dawson's Creek and James Van Der Beek. (No, I haven't had a bunch of coffee on an empty stomach, why do you ask?) Go read, it's after the jump. More »
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