No More Queen's Homecoming

Queen's homecoming has legendary status among Ontario high school and University students.  As a Queen's Alumni I can testify that it is a great party.  This year the police arrested 54 people and...

Vidal urges schools to give room for academic freedom, teach truth

"WHILE denying that Catholic schools convert or “proselytize members for the Church,” Cebu Archbishop Ricardo Cardinal Vidal asked that they be unashamed in proclaiming Jesus’ truth. He said the words while celebrating mass during the Sacred Heart School-Jesuit (SHS-J)...

107-Year-Old Man Leads High School Alumni Parade

He's 107 years old, and leading the Phillips Academy parade in his golf cart. Let's hear it for C. Yardley Chittick, who was a schoolboy with Humphrey Bogart."C. Yardley Chittick sneaked off school grounds with...

Nominations invited for 2008 Australian Alumni Awards

""The Australian Alumni Awards are an excellent way to celebrate their success. We are very proud of the more than 30,000 Indonesians who have studied in Australian schools, universities and vocational training colleges. Anyone can nominate an alumnus for one of these awards...

Columbia's New Professor: Dr. Ahmadinejad

This is why I read smart people's blogs, they get smart people mail. Note: the letter part is in italics."Columbia's disgrace There is a suicidal mania that grips elite opinion in the United States. It is...

L.A. Is Ramping Up To A USC 12 And 0 Glow :: MAXINE

"This morning, we at MAXINE, went out to get the Sunday paper. At the corner station/convenience store, there, next to a pump, was parked a black Nissan 350Z convertible with a USC inscribed vanity plate...

Gato Got Latino Tongue on Gonzalez

I have been watching the political lynching of my fellow Latino Alberto Gonzalez by the out of control sham of a Congress, who has convinced most in the country that this man is a crook, torturer, liar, incompetent who should lose his job. All this while the Latinos in...

Virginia Tech to reopen hall where Cho shot students

Norris Hall, the building where Seung-Hui Cho shot thirty Virginia Tech students and himself on April 16, is set to be reopened later this month. The decision to reopen was handed down by Virginia Tech President...

Punk'd by the 1970's: Time Capsule Contains Porn

A time capsule was embedded a wall in the University of Washington's Dept. of Communications in the early 1950's, to be opened one hundred years later. Then, in the far-flung future of the late 1970's, pranksters opened the time capsule and inserted artifacts of their own,...

How good is campus security at University of Central Florida?

We'd like to hear from you about campus security at UCF. From the website, this is what we've got so far:"UCF notifies its students, staff and faculty of emergency situations through campus-wide e-mails and...

Queen's University goes flakey

Today I got an email from Queen's University, my old alumni.   They're spamming me about some goofy event they're co-hosting in Vancouver with Tony Robbins called 'The Power Within'. Suzanne Somers will...

Paris Hilton Started Taking Acting Classes

Paris Hilton has been attending acting classes to prepare for her latest film. The hotel heiress - who starred in horror movie ‘House of Wax’ and has had a string of cameos including parts in ‘Zoolander’ – wants to prove her critics wrong with her latest movie...

Lessons from the UCLA Hack Attack

"Up to 800,000 of the school's students, faculty and alumni may be vulnerable to identity theft. What went wrong, and what can be done about it? University letters to students and alumni are usually cheerful. But the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) [ucla.org]...

5 years later, WTC mail keeps coming

"It's the kind of holiday mail that might have been tossed aside, discarded like any other piece of junk mail: a special offer for a facial at a local spa. Only the address on the letter no longer exists. And the woman the letter is addressed to died more than five years ago...

Quota System: Who are the real beneficiaries? Compiled by Sai.R

"Quota System: Who are the real beneficiaries? Contents 1. Quota system: Beginning of the end for IITs and IIMs Bhamy V Shenoy, Gulf Times, May 26, 2006-------------------------------------- 2. Meeting the challenge of Mandal II, Satish Deshpande & Yogendra Yadav, Hindu...

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