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  • Who cares

    So what? She didn't stick far away from home in Hawaii, went from Northern Idaho to U of I arguably a step up in a state she was more comfortable in. Took a break to be with her boyfriend and future husband- She was a kid. None of this is surprising or shocking. So she took the road less travelled. Many people do and it makes for a ...
    Posted to Chatterbox by myopinion4 on October 4, 2008

  • The Big Bailout...Ha!

    There is no need for a bailout of the bank when we can bail them out through tax payer spending...heres how: America has fought hard to become an independent nation and a leader in innovation, so how can we fix our current economic downtrend efficiently? Some seem to think that throwing money at the corporations who failed us is the answer…we all ...
    Posted to Trailhead by Mejamz on September 29, 2008

  • It's all about who you know ...

    I'm from Seattle, so have had a little more than a passing interest in Bill Gates .. and picked up this story along the way. When Mr, Gates and Steve Allen were very young men, back in the dark ages of computer history, Bill's Momma was on the Board of Trustees at the University of Washington. So was the CEO of IBM. At that time, IBM were in ...
    Posted to Readme by ariel4thou on August 25, 2008

  • We Need a Harvard Solution

    Of course parents and students are anxious--to vie to be one of the few chosen to attend Harvard (or other Ivy) is to enter a losing battle. You might as well pin your hopes on becoming a celebrity. One problem is that the population of college-bound seniors (now from an international pool of applicants) has been growing exponentially for a ...
    Posted to Foreigners by Anni on May 28, 2008

  • Nice spin

    ''And don't be giving me any grief about asking this.'' How about for lying by misrepresentation? Surely you expect some grief for that. Really smooth the way you completely misrepresent Michelle Obama's thesis after telling everyone it's unreadable. Really going after those 'low information' citizens, eh? What she actually wrote ...
    Posted to Fighting Words by James Andre on May 5, 2008

  • Re: re: Full Court Press

    Of course, if Obama REALLY wanted to connect with the working class, including rural and agricultural folks, he would have gone to NC State and met with Sydney Lowe and his team. Back in the day the main rivalry in the state was between UNC and NC State, with the preppy and ''professional'' people going to Chapel Hill, and the engineers, farmers, ...
    Posted to Trailhead by RustoleumNC on May 2, 2008

  • Did The Chronicle of Higher Education Get It Wrong?

    Emily Bazelon reported April 28 on a study (http://chronicle.com/free/2008/04/2604n.htm) by the Chronicle of Higher Education suggesting that “Wealthy Colleges Show Drop in Enrollments of Needy Students.” This is based on a reported 2-year decrease from 14.3% to 13.1% of of the undergraduates at the country's 75 wealthiest private colleges who ...
    Posted to XX Factor by jshapard on May 1, 2008

  • The amazing irony

    While the economy falters and discretionary incomes are spent on the occasional steak dinner, the ‘rag business’ is a tough market to be in. In this mess lies a couple of businesses that persevere. Urban Outfitters, the store that gives college and high school kids the individualism they deserve, is still profiting (heavily). The store offers ...
    Posted to Culturebox by Heavenly Manna on April 28, 2008

  • Re: Why would Goldstein write such an article?

    I had the same reaction: what is B. Goldstein accomplishing by telling us that she faked her son's way into a college curriculum in which he really had no interest? It's not easy to grow up, but we can't do it for our children. My son dropped out of college at 20, lost several jobs until he learned to get to work on time, took a night course on ...
    Posted to Family by Lulu41 on April 28, 2008

  • This Generation

    I am only 7 years removed from college. But what I see every day at the university I currently work at echoes this latest article from ''The Fray.'' Expectations for the generation currently at university are terrifically low. This boy had not matured enough through high school to care about his future, to the extent that he did not apply to ...
    Posted to Family by shrike10997 on April 26, 2008
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