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Apr 20, 2008 12:00 PM
by Hillary Brody // Barnard College Economics lecturer at an Ivy League institution by day and president of the United States Soccer Federation by night—all just part of the gig for Sunil Gulati, who is able to bridge his two worlds in his Sports Economics...
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Apr 20, 2008 12:00 PM
by Natasha Saiyed // University of Illinois at Chicago Rumors of prospective employers and campus police informally browsing social networking sites have run rampant for several years, but a new program does the work for them, allowing universities to...
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Apr 20, 2008 12:00 PM
Alicia Sacramone, 20 Brown University by David Tao // Harvard For many athletes, competing before a crowd of thousands is an intimidating prospect—flashes and loud cheering can throw off even the most stone-cold competitors. For American gymnast and Olympic...
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Apr 20, 2008 12:00 PM
by Olivia Scott // Georgetown University In the academic shuffle of lengthy Russian novels, dense chemistry textbooks and convoluted philosophical prose, reading went from a pleasure to just another obstacle between you and your bed. Here are some picks...
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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...
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Apr 20, 2008 12:00 PM
by Olivia Scott // Georgetown University They are the Cameron Crazies, camping out on a tiny lawn for three months for a ticket to a single Duke-UNC game or the blindingly bright Orange Krush at the University of Illinois or the 4,000-strong Izzone at...
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Apr 20, 2008 12:00 PM
by Tina Peng // Northwestern University College mascots hold a sacred place in undergrads’ hearts. Duke has its leering Blue Devil and UCLA its burly Bruin, while some make due with less intimidating sideline cheerers: Syracuse has Otto the Orange—literally...
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Dec 19, 2007 09:48 PM
by Trisha Wolf // Washington University-St. Louis For most sixth-graders, getting a job means washing cars or babysitting for neighbors, but for WashU senior Troy Ruths it meant starting a career in computer design. This self-taught whiz learned about...
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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,...
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Dec 19, 2007 08:34 PM
by Daina Anhalt // Harvard University The moment of truth has arrived. Study groups, all-nighters, even multiple lattes can’t help with this one. Four years of college culminate in one last challenge—the swim test. At a few schools (Columbia, Cornell,...
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Dec 18, 2007 10:26 PM
Even when it’s snowing in Ann Arbor, students at the University of Michigan will be able to hit the golf green. The school will soon feature its own mini-golf course, with holes scattered throughout academic buildings on North Campus. Rahul Daswani, a...
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Sep 12, 2007 10:19 PM
by Matt Harper // Dickinson College Essence Carson, the six-foot guard for the Rutgers women’s basketball team, was thrust into the national spotlight along with her teammates last April during the Scarlet Knights’ exhilarating run to the NCAA championship...
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Sep 12, 2007 09:56 PM
by Ariel Davis // University of South Alabama In one of his YouTube videos, Kevin McMullin hops up stairwells and glides down ramps. But unlike others sharing the camera, grinding on roller blades, bikes and skateboards, he is executing his tricks on...
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