Archive for the ‘Student Newspaper’ Category

A pre-Valentine’s Day sex edition of The Ka Leo at the University of Hawaii is currently in the campus and local media spotlight. According to a broadcast news report in Honolulu, the chief culprit of what is still (at the moment, at least) a mini-controversy: a how-to guide on a variety of sex positions. The piece offers advice on techniques, equipment, and expectations aiming to help students make the most of positions nicknamed hips to hips, hips and lips, rear entry, and “so much more than missionary.” It also sports graphics showing the positions in action.

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In return for a recent $100,000 donation, Harvard University’s School of Law has named a restroom after a professor at the University of California, Berkeley. The Falik Men’s Room honors the prof. William Falik, whose last name Time Magazine confirms “is apparently pronounced exactly how it looks.” In a Daily Californian story on the unusual arrangement, Falik, a law school alum, confirmed the whole shebang was his idea: “I have a name that doesn’t go many places. I think it’s somewhat humorous to have my name outside of a men’s room.”

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The Daily Iowan’s recent Herculean coverage of the University of Iowa’s Dance Marathon was a real-time multimedia reporting tour-de-force. By the numbers: 300 man hours of planning and reporting by DI staff. 50 published stories, along with scores of photos, a slew of blog updates and tweets, and a slate of videos. Roughly 17,000 hits to the DI website during the 24-hour charitable event, apparently a record amount. And, of course, the most heartening number: $1.3 million raised by the marathon’s participants to help child patients treated at the university’s medical facilities.

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As of dawn this morning, here are the main stories on The Daily Tar Heel and The Duke Chronicle websites recounting last night’s down-to-the-wire wowzer between Duke University and the University of North Carolina.

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Over the past week, a column in The Spectrum student newspaper at the University of Buffalo criticizing women who get tattoos has gone massively viral. The piece has prompted a rash of well-reasoned retorts coupled with hate-filled rants. The column by UB student and Spectrum assistant news editor Lisa Khoury compares a tattoo on a woman to a “bumper stick on a Ferrari.”

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The winner of today’s edition of this recurring giggly headline feature is a candid topper to a story in The Daily Gazette about a Swarthmore College student’s hair dye regimen. As the header intones with snark-filled delight: “Shit I Do While My Cats Are Sleeping: Cray-Pas Hair Dye.”

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A bed bug outbreak at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln has prompted a subsequent swarm of criticism from students aimed at campus housing officials. A rash of stories and editorials in The Daily Nebraskan charges UNL staffers with failing to inform students in a timely manner about the growing infestation and instead spreading misinformation and even telling student RAs to lie to their residents.

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In the immediate aftermath of the recent “dumb f*ckers” student newspaper snafu, a number of individuals within collegemediatopia mentioned that it reminded them of another high-profile, vulgar slip more than 15 years before. In the late 1990s, The Collegiate Times at Virginia Tech University published a story that included a pull-quote using the words of a VT administrator. Yet, instead of her actual title, she was identified in the pull-quote as a “Director of Butt Licking.”

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The grand prize winner of today’s edition of this giggly headline feature is a headline topping what has to be called the attempted crime of the year, so far. As the header to a well-written straight news story in The Daily Collegian reveals: “Student Faces Theft Charges After Attempting to Steal Taxi.”

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This past weekend, Stephanie Schendel, the cops and courts reporter for The Daily Evergreen at Washington State University, tweeted live observations from a late-night ridealong with local police. Schendel has carried out several “tweetalongs” during the academic year, providing a glimpse of quirkier after-hours community goings-on with candor and quick wit.

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In the wake of the New York Giants come-from-behind Super Bowl win, Columbia Daily Spectator staffer Jim Pagels has a bold suggestion for Columbia University administrators: Declare Monday a school holiday.

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In a recent late-night newsroom slip that has now been widely reported and mocked, The Suffolk Journal accidentally printed a sub-headline they undoubtedly immensely regret. In a story about a campus involvement fair, the Suffolk University student newspaper’s main headline simply dubs the event a success (with an explanation point). The sub-hed, however, states: “Even we had some dumb fuckers sign up!” Yikes.

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An online alcohol education course that incoming college students nationwide are required to complete is “ineffective and may actually encourage irresponsible drinking,” a new report in The Red & Black at the University of Georgia confirms.  (FYI The Red & Black is my favorite student newspaper in the solar system, if you cannot tell by [...]

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A sexually suggestive headline sitting atop a recent article on the front page of The Daily O’Collegian has prompted an uproar on Oklahoma State University’s campus. As I previously posted, the OK State student newspaper topped a front page centerpiece about a new strip club opening near campus with the header: “Diamond in the Muff.”

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An unfortunate slip in yesterday’s issue of The Suffolk Journal at Boston’s Suffolk University triggered an immediate apology from the student paper’s staff. In a story about a Winter Involvement Fair, the main headline simply dubs the event a success (with an exclamation point). The sub-hed, however, states: “Even we had some dumb fuckers sign up!“

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