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Topic: College (page 24)

I majored in surfing. Really.

Alien studies: Is it time to take little green men more seriously?

SAT skirmish: Mismeasurement of morons?

Michael Scott Moore

Tyranny of the lecturn: What they never teach professors about teaching

Sherryl Kleinman

Baby-killing philosophers! What the public doesn't understand about Princeton's Peter Singer

Wither success? When leaving academia to write the great American novel turns ugly

Christine Kenneally

Promotional intelligence: How a journalist distorted a scholarly idea -- and ended up a CEO.

Annie Murphy Paul

Slaughterhouse Lit: J.M. Coetzees animal-rights tract, "The Lives of Animals," won't convince anyone that meat is murder

Douglas Cruickshank

Garbage picking 101: I was a Seven Sisters Dumpster diver

Gillian Andrews

A very literary bear: Why shouldn't Winnie-the-Pooh be on the UC-Berkeley reading list?

Ivory Tower: In "The Culture of Fear," Barry Glassner explains what America really should be afraid of

Did toxic drinking water kill the children at Columbine High?

Utopian scholar or ruthless CEO: Will the real Henry Louis Gates please stand up?

The ethereal physics of scientific authorship: Why do the powerful get so much credit?

Why do I teach community college? Because I can help others get their lives back on track, just as I did

Tale of the Turkish chairs: Will they massacre history?

Christopher Shea

Excerpt from "Love in a Dead Language": Guess who's coming to dinner? In this comic set piece, an academic couple compete t

Kamasutra U: An amazing academic novel of sex, games, language and India

I was UC Berkeley's designated bigot: Identity politics still rule on campus

Wages of fear: There's nothing sadder than a university salary list

A stomach is a terrible thing to waste: Are student hunger strikes over less-than-epic issues overkill?

She was a woman, a pope, a mother: But did she even exist?

Katharine Whittemore

Rhodes to nowhere: the pinnacle of academia is no North Dakota

All men are animals! So say (mostly male) evolutionary psychologists. Bu

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