The media bloodbath hasn’t made for happy days at Columbia Journalism School. When the Times recently announced that its new, hyperlocal blog experiment “The Local” would be assisted by journalism students not from Columbia but from the City University of New York, you could practi...

Back in the sixties, college kids read books—books about revolution and sex and drugs. Today, college kids read Harry Potter books and whine about cops touching their Macbooks. Who's responsible? Tucker Max. A cranky old Sixties guy in the Washington Post points out that in less than two gener...

The 18 NYU kids who occupied the Kimmel center got their just desserts: one week suspensions for all! The tragically confused radicals took over NYU's student center in order to protest everything in the world, without consulting with the various organized groups on campus working on all the various...

As I watched him prepare to shoot up on the bathroom floor, I felt a mix of fear, horror, fascination and arousal. He didn’t tie that rubber thingy around his arm like I’d seen Diana Ross do in Lady... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]...

Looking at this picture may be sexual harassment. [Ed: One of the rare (okay, not so rare) bonuses of having a bunch of fetching local students as your interns is that we have immediate access to the "kids these days." So when we heard about the ruckus going on at NYU today, we dispatched our Mike V...

What leads kids from urban-suburban/indie music settings to get their SDS on and "take over" a cafeteria with a list of demands? Should we mock them, or pity them? Well, we should mock them, yes. But we can acknowledge the important details: these poor kids mean well. NYU should do a good half of th...

...According to this opinion piece at least. But opinion pieces are like assholes, especially when written by a "licensed school psycologist" who happens to be one. The author, Dennis Todd, seems to posit that gay clubs in schools promote dangerous......

Reaction Paper #2 Buena Vista University Phil 361 Introduction: The history of gay and lesbian legal status in the United States is a patchwork of delayed, denied and precarious rights affected more by bigotry and sexism than by Constitutional law. Beginning with the case of the Stonewall Inn raid i...

'Sexting': to send nude or semi-nude pics of oneself via cellphone. These PA kids got arrested for it. I know this is not the dumbest thing I'll ever hear because FOX news is still on the air. However, its pretty......

Dear Typepad, Things have been distant between us lately.  I know it.  You know it.  There's no sense in pretending that we haven't hit a rough patch.  I know that I've been ignoring you, spending very little time at home with you and then on the few occasions when I have turned ...