Tag: COLLEGE

Twitter is a lot like a firearm. If you don't know how to use it, you should just keep your hands off of it. According to The Orlando Sentinel, Oklahoma Sooners head coach Bob Stoops suspended wide receiver Jaz Reynolds indefinitely on Wednesday for insensitive comments he'd made on his Twitter account about the recent shooting at the University of Texas in Austin. Reynolds wrote, "Hey everyone ...

Since April of this year, a conservative government official has been anonymously targeting a man he calls a "radical homosexual activist" -- blogging about his activities, disparaging his personal life, staging demonstrations outside of his residence, and naming and criticizing his known cohorts. There's nothing shocking about that, right? What if we were to tell you that the aforementioned ...

Earlier this season, the University of Oklahoma Sooners football team began wearing In Case of Emergency Dot (ICEDOT) chips during games. The small red disks, which clip onto a jersey, can securely store a patient's entire medical history, and give emergency workers immediate access to it via an eight-digit PIN. Not only is it much faster to access digital records than paper records at the ...

In case you missed the e-mail fracas between Long Island University student Chelsea Kate Isaacs and His Majesty Steve Jobs last week, Isaacs went on Good Morning America yesterday to rehash the escalating back-and-forth between her and the Apple CEO. It all started when Isaacs tried to contact Apple's media relations department for a comment to include in a story she was writing for her ...

The only blackouts most college students experience typically involve homemade absinthe and late night stomach pumps. This week, however, students at one university in Pennsylvania will have to endure an entirely different -- and perhaps more terrifying -- brand of blackout: a digital one. As of today, access to all social networking sites and instant messaging programs will be blocked across ...

High schoolers have long grown broad-smiled and wide-eyed when regaled with their older friends' college stories -- parties, sleeping late, football games, and, amazingly to think, no attendance requirements. While those youngsters need not fear that all-night ragers and tailgating will fade into obscurity anytime soon, it may be a different story with class attendance. At least one college, ...

Dorm life has its pitfalls: the public restrooms, wandering drunks, bed bugs and "performance art" outside your door at 2 a.m. But, for most, when it comes time to make the switch from sleeping at home to passing out at college, the biggest impediment to adjusting well is a bad roommate. Yet, for those entering college in the past couple of years, pesky roommates have become less likely, thanks ...

digg_url ='http://www.switched.com/2010/08/23/valves-portal-now-mandatory-reading-for-college-freshmen/'; We've dug our heels in as decidedly pro when it comes to the debate over whether or not video games are art. And, although we're not desperate for additional support, our argument has gotten a serious boost from Wabash College in Indiana. Wabash's incoming freshmen are now assigned the ...

File this under things impossible to prove, but a new study shows that, if you've got a lot of Facebook friends, you might actually be more likely to finish college. Abilene Christian University followed 375 college freshman for nine months, and tracked their social networking activity. What the university and its research partners found was that the students who returned for their sophomore year ...

The University of Florida is not the first college to offer a course in 'StarCraft,' but it is the first to offer one that at least pretends to have some intellectual value beyond boosting your APM (actions per minute) rate. EME2040, or 21st Century Skills in 'StarCraft' is being taught by Nate Poling, and uses the blockbuster real-time strategy game as a tool for teaching lessons about time ...

It may have taken some time, but universities across the country seem to be finally coming to terms with the death of the landline. Last week, the University of Virginia removed around 3,850 phones from dorms across its Charlottesville campus in a move that school officials claim will save $500,000 per year. In the last few years, carriers like AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile have also expanded ...

Niche social networking runs rampant, and the latest site to match up particular bedfellows is, according to Wired, designed to bring together college football recruiters and high school football players. Created by the son of an NFL broadcaster, Play Next Level is a place where kids who dream of playing college pigskin can create profiles to attract recruiters (and maybe earn a scholarship). So ...

Waiting for a college acceptance letter can be extremely stressful. But once you've finally been accepted (or rejected), it's all over, right? Apparently not, if you applied to the U.K. institution of Middlesex University. The college has confirmed that a computer glitch caused 2,500 acceptance letters to be sent out to applicants who had not actually been evaluated yet. That's two and a half ...

The new website Ultrinsic wants to to make a bet with you; it says that you can't get straight As, or straight Bs for that matter. The beta service lets students place wagers on whether or not they'll achieve a certain grade in a class or maintain a particular GPA. To be a virtual bookie, the service uses an algorithm that takes into account current work load, course history and, when available, ...

If you didn't get into your college of choice, don't worry. Bill Gates thinks that where you get your college soon won't matter. According to Tech Crunch, Gates said last week at the Techonomy 2010 conference that, over the next five years, the Internet will offer a better education than the collegiate model. "Five years from now on the Web, for free, you'll be able to find the best lectures in ...