"Hawaii Speedo Student" Sought By School Security, Porn Companies @4:20 PM
"Since at least January, Tim, a gay 22-year-old senior at the University of Hawai'i-Manoa, has been recording himself masturbating, and uploading the videos to Xtube…. Among those photos is a series of him in University of Hawaii classrooms, snapped in January-February…. the University's Twitter account posted this campus warning: 'if you see 'Hawaii Speedo Student' on campus, do not approach him–-call Campus Security.' Now, he's an outlaw. Or at least a wild mountain lion roaming campus looking for prey." 21
UCLA Students Riot Over Huge Tuition Increase @9:20 AM
Maybe the kids are alright! "A crowd of more than 500 demonstrators rushed Covel Commons on Wednesday to protest a proposed 32 percent student fee increase." 10
Columbia University English Department Promises To Undermine Its Students @9:49 AM
It is amusing that Columbia's undergraduate English class schedule included a course called "The Book Review," which taught students… how to review books. Also amusing is that it is now canceled, according to the Observer, due to the death of much of the nation's book reviewing pages. Thing is, Columbia has this all backwards. Now is exactly when students should be taught how to perform criticism! What better time than the Internet age to teach people the Big Three Do-Not-Dos of critique? (I'd tell you what they are, but then you will never buy my book, "The Big Three and the Twelve Lesser Do-Not-Dos of Critique," which I am going to self-publish sometime in 2012, if I do not starve to death first.) Anyway, this book-reviewing class, if properly taught, would actually give great benefit, because it would prevent the young people from making the same mistakes over and over again, because with each generation (and by "generation," I mean each crop of kids every two years that starts blogs and has no idea that anyone has ever blogged before) comes the same common mistakes. ("The Four Classic Mistakes of the New Blogger" is my chapter four, so, you know, see you in 2012 with that.) Why is Columbia tying its educational program to the death of print? Fortunately, Columbia has the future financial health of its students in mind, as, according to its roster, it still offers classes named "Comparative Modern Texts: Competing Isms' Modernism and the Avant-Garde" and "Caribbean Disaporic Literature," though apparently at least one of those course titles is incorrectly punctuated and the other includes an obvious misspelling. 22
