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  • Bad Medicine: Familiar Pills with a Dark Side

    Current | Apr 20, 2008 12:00 PM
    by Matt Harper // Dickinson College “College students pop pain relievers like candy.” That’s how a friend put it to me recently. I didn’t disagree. We all know the brand names —Advil, Motrin, Aleve—of the non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs)... More
  • We're friends forever, dammit.

    Current | Apr 20, 2008 12:00 PM
    Or at least that's what Daniela Bloch keeps telling her ex. by Daniela Bloch // Northwestern University It’s right before Thanksgiving when I dial his number. He’s in Pennsylvania when I, safely nestled under a fleece in Chicago, call it quits. I can’t... More
  • Gaming Gets Real

    Current | Apr 20, 2008 12:00 PM
    Kevin Scheitrum describes the surreal transformation of college athletes into video game characters. They got it right, Shaun Wynn says. They got it right, from his jersey to the way he moved to his ability to stick on the guy he was guarding like bad... More
  • Hipster Attack Revisited: Why I'm Scared of Brooklyn

    Current | Apr 20, 2008 12:00 PM
    by Erin Geld // Cornell University They had been waiting for me, those Brooklyn hipsters. I was the ideal victim: an eager beaver undergrad from upstate; an out-of-towner visiting Brooklyn, the coolest place in the world. Wide-eyed and guileless, with... More
  • In Search of the True Hipster

    Current | Apr 20, 2008 12:00 PM
    by Molly Finkelstein // Vassar College The first time someone called me a hipster, I was secretly pleased. Of course I denied the allegation: I would never call myself a hipster. But then again, nor would any self-respecting hipster. I’m a suburban girl... More
  • Veiled Feminism: Being a Woman Under Hijaab

    Current | Dec 19, 2007 09:51 PM
    Kausar Khan // Northeastern Illinois University Here I am, walking across campus, minding my own business, when a passing security guard does a double-take. “You don’t have to wear that honey!” she exclaims. “In America you don’t have to be ashamed of... More
  • Competitive Eating: More Than Meets the Mouth

    Current | Dec 19, 2007 08:47 PM
    by Kevin Scheitrum // Boston University By day, as a trader on Wall Street, Tim Janus weighs 165 pounds. But as Eater X, his face-painted alter-ego bent on devouring, he shot up to more than 180 in an especially torrid 12-minute stretch on Sept. 2, 2006,... More
  • Entering the Real (Estate) World

    Current | Dec 19, 2007 06:54 PM
    by Meredith Krohn-Friedson // Cornell University After spending a lifetime lauding the virtues of a humanities education—swaggering through the high school cafeteria with an armful of Penguin Classics; protractedly pontificating on the phantasmagoric... More
  • HPV Vaccine Hits You Where It Hurts

    Current | Dec 19, 2007 04:59 PM
    by Sharon Tharp // The College of New Jersey When Kelly Gallimore, a senior at Millersville University in Millersville, Penn., heard about Gardasil, the first approved vaccine for Human Papillomavirus (HPV), she talked to her doctor right away about getting... More
  • Exercise Bulimia: Too Much of a Good Thing

    Current | Sep 13, 2007 11:10 PM
    by Maura Judkis // George Washington University Hours spent on treadmills and rowing machines may give you buns of steel and to-die-for legs, but some gym rats are taking their workouts too far. Colleges across the U.S. are now dealing with a new type... More
  • When Your Body is Grandpa’s Age

    Current | Sep 12, 2007 10:03 PM
    by Sarah Kliff // Washington University additional reporting by Brittany Farb and Rebecca Katz // Washington University Rebecca Corman thinks about her health, maybe even more than most. She played volleyball at her high school in California and, now... More
  • Sexting Up UR Nite

    Current | Sep 12, 2007 09:47 PM
    by Andrea Zimmerman // Drake University It’s 2:30 a.m. My phone rests in my hand as I wait for the familiar notes of Justin Timberlake’s “My Love” to signal that I have a text message. Last weekend, I met a law student at a local bar. We exchanged phone... More
  • Hokies Seek to Heal

    Current | Sep 11, 2007 05:16 PM
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