Don't throw out that TV!

By Matt Roland

One starry night almost exactly a year ago, three hooded college students tiptoed into the night, clutching large black garbage bags in their hands. But these garbage bags were not to be thrown into the trash; they were to be filled with it. While for many students the final days of the semester mark the onset of testing season, for dozens of entrepreneurial trash-sifters, finals are prime time for dumpster-diving.

Stuff we can all like: skewering stereotypes

By Christina Jelly

I think I might be on the brink of an existential crisis. It's not because of the 24/7 study marathon in the race to finals or my impending graduation. No, my recent feelings of deep psychological distress have been roused by questions that resonate with the very core of my identity - am I too white? I blame the panic on "Stuff White People Like," a comedy blog-cum-sociological analysis that has spiraled into an Internet phenomenon mocking popular habits of white America.

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Spotlight on Spending

Report shows students spending more, getting less

News flash: "The system of higher education finance that has evolved in the United States requires annual increases in unrestricted revenues that are unsustainable in the current environment." That's the message of the Delta Project on Postsecondary Education Costs, Productivity and Accountability, a nonprofit research group with a long name but a concise mission: tracking the way universities across the nation spend the money they receive from students.