Mar 26 2012 in Campus Culture by Trevor King
With April around the corner, high school juniors are beginning to tour colleges across the country while seniors receive admission decisions and choose where they will matriculate. How does one decide when there are over 4,000 colleges in the United States? “You want to know what I look for in a college? Hot chicks in [...]
Tags: American, Amherst, Brown, Caltech, Catholic, College of William & Mary, Colorado College, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Davidson, Duke, Emory, George Mason, George Washington, Georgetown, Harvard, Ivy League, James Madison University, Johns Hopkins, Kenyon, MIT, New College, Northwestern, NYU, Penn, Pomona, Princeton, Reed, Rice, Sewanee, St. Johns, Stanford, Tulane, U. Maryland, UC Berkeley, UCLA, UNC Chapel Hill, University of Chicago, University of Florida, University of Richmont, USC, UVA, Vanderbilt, Vassar, Wake Forest, Washington & Lee, Williams, Yale
Feb 23 2012 in Campus Culture by Trevor King
Crime. One of the topics that colleges do not wish to discuss is campus crime. In fact, colleges only started reporting crime statistics in the 1990s because federal law required it. Before the government required campuses to reveal their crime statistics, it was almost impossible to discover a campus’s crime rate. The mandatory detailed reporting [...]
Tags: Brown University, FBI, Michigan State University, U. Miami, U.S. Department of Education, UC Berkeley, Yale
Feb 21 2012 in Campus Culture by Trevor King
Greeks: either you love them or hate them. On most large public universities, fraternities and sororities dominate social life, which means either you’re in a frat or sorority or you go bowling on Friday nights. Private colleges vary widely: some of them have no frats (Harvard,Georgetown,), some have quasi-frats (Princeton, Yale), and some colleges have [...]
Tags: Cornell, Dartmouth, fraternity, Georgetown, Greek organization, Greek system, Harvard, sorority, U.S. Department of Education, UC Berkeley, University of Michigan, Yale