Wacky Faculty
Dating Blog #1: Out with a Professor
By vivan_pelirrojas (06/27/2008 3:57 PM) Tags: conference, professor, kissing
A terrible and recent experience I've had with first dates lately has been with a foreign professor. Now, let's just be clear upfront that this man was not my professor, because that's just...skanky. But either way, this story proves that the tales of The Horny Professor are true and no
... MORE »Mindless Chatter from College Professors
By Steph (06/24/2008 12:29 AM) Tags: obsession with neckwear, lesbian marriage, airline bumps, college professors, mindless chatter, bumper sticker road rage
It’s summer, and you’d think you could finally escape their rambling lectures. Think again. Today we’ve rounded up news stories with college professors who just can’t keep their mouths shut.
Mindless Chatter from College Professors
By Steph (06/23/2008 11:27 AM) Tags: Overheard in NY hot slut of the day, Claire L Gaudiani, Lance Armstrong, NY Post, Gawker, mindless chatter
It’s summer, and you’d think you could finally escape their rambling lectures. Think again. Today we’ve rounded up news stories with college professors who just can’t keep their mouths shut.
Vanderbilt Spends Multi Billion Endowment on Scholarships, Searching for Aliens
By CommodoreGirl (06/12/2008 10:36 AM) Tags: KELT, Aliens
ET Says: "Which way to Sportsmann's?"
This week, scientists at Vanderbilt's Dyer Observatory revealed the KELT, which, although it sounds like some sort of Japanese food that would go well with my spicy tuna roll, is in reality the world's second "plane
... MORE »Most Productive Tufts Summer Activity
By The Misanthropist (06/09/2008 09:24 AM) 
We are all absurd!
ABSURD
Pronunciation[ab-surd, -zurd]
–adjective
1. utterly or obviously senseless, illogical, or untrue; contrary to all reason or common sense; laughably foolish or false: an absurd explanation.
–noun
2. the quality or condition of existing in a meaningless and irra... MORE »
OTR Tip/Rambling Idiot of the Day:
By Steph (06/06/2008 07:53 AM) Tags: rant, rambling idiot, tips, crazy people on the internet
Email: [redacted]@thisisnrighttoask.org
Name: Skeptic
Message: who are you "college on the record" company??? who are you? who runs you? why isn't there an "about us" link that tells us who owns you, who runs you, what your goals are, what your point of view is, what you hope to accomplish with
Columbia Steals Top Wall Street Journal Editor
By Lacy Hart (06/05/2008 12:47 AM) Tags: Joe Strupp, News Corp ruins WSJ, Bill Grueskin, dean of academic affairs, Columbia Graduate School of Journalism
Less than two months after Managing Editor Marcus Brauchli left The Wall Street Journal, one of his top deputies has announced he will leave for a post at Columbia University.
In a memo to staffers Wednesday, provided to E&P, Bil... MORE »
Energy Efficient Transport GOOD, Tennessee Gas Prices BAD
By CommodoreGirl (05/29/2008 2:08 PM) Tags: Gas prices, environment, green
Professor: Queen Oprah is like the Pope
By SpiceBizzle (05/27/2008 1:33 PM) Tags: Janice Peck, Oprah is like the Pope, The Age of Oprah, the Oprah brand
“Not too long ago, she was like the pope.”
-- Janice Peck, associate professor of journalism at the UC-Boulder, a national expert on Her Majesty Oprah.
UMich History Professor Strikes Back!
By Steph (05/27/2008 1:18 PM) Tags: Professor Juan Cole, history professor at UMich, boring books at college, thriller at college
“Yes, apparently one of the problems with taking college classes you have to read… books and alas, they’re mostly not thrillers,” he tells viewers of MTV’s Professors Strike Back. “So I’m so sorry tha... MORE »
