For about a year, the brothers of Dartmouth College’s Beta Alpha Omega—the straight-laced fraternity that famously hosted Rick Perry after a Republican debate in October 2011—have corresponded about house debauchery, fraternity rituals, and other key topics using Google Groups, apparently to avoid using Dartmouth’s own servers (and the eyes of college administrators).

A study found that universities with unionized graduate students not only paid their graduate students more, but "on various measures of student-faculty relations, the survey found either no difference or (in some cases) better relations at unionized campuses."

There has been a growing movement of late to push colleges and universities to get rid of all their investments in fossil fuels, in the same way they were pushed to divest from holdings in apartheid South Africa a generation ago. Harvard has answered: no thx.

Yale University, a squirrel-less arrangement of faux-ancient stone buildings in southwestern Connecticut, has a major pooping problem. Since the beginning of September, someone—almost certainly a Yale student—has placed human feces, urine, and/or food in running dryers installed in Saybrook College, one of the university’s residential colleges. Now Yale’s own police force is hunting down the pooper.

A generator has exploded at UC Berkeley and the campus has been evacuated. Pictures from the scene show smoke and flames and witnesses are tweeting about seeing a 20 foot high fireball. One person has been taken to the hospital with minor injuries.

The City University of New York has relocated David Petraeus’s fall seminar, titled “Are We on the Threshold of the North American Decade?”, to a more fortified campus building, under “increased” security, which will allow the former CIA chief to avoid a growing contingent of student protestors, six of whom were beaten and jailed by the New York City Police Department after last week’s demonstration.

David Gilmour is a singer in Pink Floyd. The less famous David Gilmour is an author and professor at the University of Toronto. That David Gilmour is, as of today, most famous for declaring that "What I teach is guys."

Harvard, a school in Boston that your boss's boss went to, made Fortune 500 money last year. More profit than Target, and just less than AIG. Just how rich is Harvard?

Texas Senator Ted Cruz, the Princeton graduate, Obamacare-hater, and self-fashioned class warrior, apparently refused to study with students who graduated from the “minor Ivies”—Brown, Penn, Columbia and so forth—when attending Harvard Law School in the nineties. We’re assuming Cruz simply spat upon Williams alumni.

The state of Delaware is mailing application info and fee waivers for elite colleges to every single poor high school senior with good grades in the state. Social engineering at its finest.

Margaret Mary Vojtko was a longtime adjunct professor at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh. Earlier this month, she died penniless. She may have an even greater effect in death than in life.

Grand Valley State University officials in Allendale, Michigan removed a famous landmark on campus Tuesday morning due to “safety reasons.” The Pendulum Statue, a 42-inch steel ball hanging from a 50-foot cable, has been the vessel for many nude rides this week thanks to the release of Miley Cyrus' "Wrecking Ball" video.

Santiago Pinon is an assistant professor of religion at Texas Christian University, a school with a student body that is about 11% Hispanic. He is rather indelicate with his class emails.

Yale University, America's sex palace, has issued a memo that attempts to clarify what constitutes "consensual" and "nonconsensual" sex. Immature readers may find this memo's hypothetical scenarios "hilarious," or even "ROFLMAO." Allow us to make things more clear.

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William Peace University in North Carolina plans to invest two-thirds of its entire endowment in a single shopping center development. What could go wrong?

Now that Skull & Bones is about as threatening as those kids who play Quidditch with each other, it’s time to obsess over a new mysterious Ivy-League secret society: Section X.

Hello, there is a new survey out telling us EVERYTHING about the proud freshman class of Harvard. What are they like, these young, sexually frustrated leaders?

College endowments are much flashier than they used to be. They frequently reach into the billions of dollars; they attract top investing talent; and, most notably, the majority of their money is in "alternative" investments like private equity and hedge funds. Is this hurting students' ability to be proper idealists?

Colleges have a problem. Their student-customers are having a harder time affording higher education. At the same time, government aid is being cut. So colleges raise prices. And then...wait a second.