http://theithacan.org/blogs/collegeave News + opinions on higher ed. Thu, 08 May 2008 18:38:40 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The mood on Ithaca College's campus was somber yesterday, as students reacted to the shocking news that freshman Willie Jacobson had been found drowned at the bottom of the Farm Road Pond after he had gone missing for two days. Media outlets from Fox News to the Associated Press and the ... http://theithacan.org/blogs/collegeave/2008/05/01/missing-ic-student-found-dead-in-campus-pond-community-mourns/ Chinese Students, As A Rule, Don't Like Tibetan Monks: The NYT reports that Chinese students are angry with the apparent media bias against their home country, especially with the upcoming Olympic Games drawing scrutiny on the country's involvement with Darfur and an occupation of Tibet. Last week, at the University ... http://theithacan.org/blogs/collegeave/2008/04/30/in-which-the-chinese-were-angry-and-shots-were-fired/ A Serial Killer For The Instant Messenger Generation? Two NYC detectives say they're on the trail of a possible serial killer who targets only male college students and leaves behind a smiley face drawn near the crime scene. Most of the victims were killed or apparently drowned in Minnesota, although ... http://theithacan.org/blogs/collegeave/2008/04/30/the-smiley-killer/ In what's pretty much a mockumentary on the state of affairs for graduate student teaching assistants, several Iowa State TAs have given fake interviews and say ridiculous things like "What can I write that will drive this kid to suicide?" in several videos posted to YouTube and Facebook recently. The English ... http://theithacan.org/blogs/collegeave/2008/04/29/iowa-state-peeved-about-new-ta-satire-videos/ Negative Exernalities, Anyone? Despite high-profile financial aid increases for needy/middle class students and families, percentages of those students enrolling in college has actually dropped. Whoops! Deadhead University: The Grateful Dead recently donated 2,000 square feet of paraphernalia, posters and props to the University of California, Santa Cruz for a research center ... http://theithacan.org/blogs/collegeave/2008/04/28/roundup-bad-deans-grateful-dead-research/ At around 8 a.m. a zebra was found in a residence hall at Emory University. No one has any idea how it got there. It seems pretty happy, and has reportedly purchased a beer funnel, a thirty rack of cheap beer, and a table for beer pong, and wants to throw ... http://theithacan.org/blogs/collegeave/2008/04/24/zebra-found-on-campus-looking-for-african-savannah-a-good-time/ Political Activism At Its Best: A female Brown University student leaped on stage during a talk by NY Times Columnist Tom Friedman and hit him square in the face and chest with a lemon meringue pie. But this was no ordinary pie-throwing protest: the student, who was caught shortly after ... http://theithacan.org/blogs/collegeave/2008/04/23/times-columnist-hit-in-face-with-pie-during-speech-at-brown/ Crazed Arsonist At Washington State: Two guys are wanted for setting three fires on campus in under an hour. Cop stunned one, the other got away, last seen heading toward the Burning Man festival with a blowtorch. Brown U. Math Profs Duped: A colleague sent them an intricate e-mail explaining that ... http://theithacan.org/blogs/collegeave/2008/04/21/start-your-morning-right-fires-and-abortion-art/ One year ago today, a Virginia Tech student shot 32 of his peers and teachers in an act of violence unprecedented in its scale. It was the most horrific and deadly shooting on a college campus in our nation's history, and the students there are still healing. I think that like ... http://theithacan.org/blogs/collegeave/2008/04/16/in-remembrance-of-the-victims-at-virginia-tech/ Four Schools Closed after Threats: Chicago's Malcom X College closed after a note was found on a bathroom wall; Coastal Carolina University in South Carolina closed after a fatal shooting near campus; graffiti threats at another Chicago school, St. Xavier University, prompted police to shut the school down; and yesterday, ... http://theithacan.org/blogs/collegeave/2008/04/15/roundup-threats-force-4-schools-to-close/