Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Every year, high school students and their parents spend much time, effort, and money on the college search. By comparison, they spend very little time focused on how they will spend their undergraduate years while in college. Yet a series of decisions that start the moment they secure their spot in the freshman class—from choosing…
ATLANTA — The Senior Class Day Convocation at Spelman, the elite, all-women’s historically black college, had been underway for all of 10 minutes Friday afternoon before there was an interruption in the program. Senior class president Neah Evering had just given her heartfelt welcome to a chapel overflowing with graduates and their loved ones, kicking…
Attorney General Loretta Lynch recently stated that North Carolina’s new law regarding transgender people and public restrooms is in violation of federal civil-rights law. Credit Photograph by Drew Angerer / Getty Barrier Status: ‘none’ This month, regional battles over the right of transgender people to access public bathrooms were elevated to national legal theatre. First,…
Just about everybody interested in the Middle Ages, who has played Dungeons and Dragons, or read historical and fantasy novels knows what a military flail is. It’s one of these: A one-handed military flail (modern reproduction) A military flail is a medieval weapon consisting of a short handle attached to a chain, at the end…
Recently, housing resource site Abodo released a study showing the most hate-filled places in America according to their tweets. Now, CollegeStats.org, a group that compiles data on America’s colleges and universities, has prepared a similar report for schools in America. They looked at tweets originating from within one mile of a college campus center with…
There’s trouble afoot inside the Emoji Council of Elders, or, at the very least, signs of a low-simmering schism that’s being referred to by some of its participants — perhaps with less humor than one might expect — as “Emojigeddon.” Emails seen by BuzzFeed News reveal an emerging tension at the Unicode Consortium — the…
Rape and other sexual harassment on college campuses is a genuine problem, but the Obama administration is making a mockery of justice with its ham-handed policing. A male student scored a major victory in his lawsuit against the University of Southern California, which kicked him off campus for a remarkable non-crime: failing to de-escalate an…
Looks like the geniuses who run UC Davis never Googled the words “Streisand Effect.” After a police officer pepper-sprayed UC Davis students in a widely reported 2011 incident, the California university contracted with SEO consultants for $175,000 (or maybe more) to scrub unfavorable online items about the incident and boost online reputations of both…
Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass., last month. (AP Photo/Steven ) Inside the hallowed halls of Harvard University, one of the most exclusive colleges in the world, there are ever more hallow, exclusive halls: those of the university’s “final clubs,” or undergraduate social clubs known for their selectivity and secrecy. But now, in the age of…
First it was ridicule, now it’s outrage. George Mason University’s decision to rename its law school for the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia is facing an internal backlash, with dozens of professors and staff members signing a petition that warns the move would be harmful to the school and insulting to many students and…