The XX Factor : college

Blame Draconian Laws for Underreporting of Campus Sexual Assaults

Samantha Henig — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 20:06:00 GMT

A post from DoubleX intern Jessica Dweck: Claire, I'd love to join you in indicting those limp pastries —and the ineffectual bureaucratic dithering they inspire—for the shameful silence surrounding sexual assaults on campus. But there is a bigger factor...(read more)

Do Radical Professors Produce Radical Students?

Kerry Howley — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 19:03:00 GMT

A simple but telling little study from the University of Brussels challenges the idea that college kids are gobs of clay passively waiting to be molded by their professors. In general, students of social science are more likely to graduate college as...(read more)

Generation Y Is No More Entitled Than The Baby Boomers Before Us

Jessica Grose — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 16:37:00 GMT

The New York Times had an article in its style section yesterday about college students' bleak prospects for employment this summer . The content is entirely unsurprising: We're in a recession where jobs are drying up for everyone. What interested me...(read more)

Can Posting Calorie Counts Be Hazardous to Your Health?

Dahlia Lithwick — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 17:12:00 GMT

A guest post from our Slate V intern, Lindsey Hough: The onslaught against obesity continues in New York City. A federal appeals court yesterday rejected a challenge to a 2007 city regulation requiring large chain restaurants to post calorie information...(read more)

Do I Have to Be an Astrophysicist?

Kara Hadge — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 15:09:00 GMT

While I can't answer Melinda's question of whether the bar for mothers-who-do-it-all was always set so high, as a young twentysomething just starting out in my career, I can see that bar vaulting upward among the women of my own generation. With few glass...(read more)

What Would Smith Do?

Emily Bazelon — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 20:19:00 GMT

Depressing findings from the Chronicle of Higher Education : Even though well-off colleges say they're trying hard to recruit low-income students, the numbers are going in the wrong direction. At the 75 schools with endowments over $500 million, the share...(read more)

Lies, Damned Lies, Statistics, etc.

Rachael Larimore — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 20:25:00 GMT

Torie, You and Jezebel are right that Heather Mac Donald goes off the rails with her rant against drunk college girls . Which is too bad, because before that, she was making an important point. At first I wondered, why is she rehashing this now? Because...(read more)

College Girls Are Easy?

Torie Bosch — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 20:57:00 GMT

In a Sunday column for the Los Angeles Times , Heather Mac Donald of the Manhattan Institute questions the incidence of campus rape, which is reported to affect 20 percent to 25 percent of college women. (Penn State, the college I attended, is among the...(read more)