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For Your Consideration
For those who don't know, I write somewhat regular dispatches for McSweeney's Internet Tendency. There's a new one up today...
Poetry Can Be Dangerous
Kazim Ali discarded a box of contest entries and found himself considered a security risk. He writes about what it's like when innocent actions make you a suspect.
Like Nails on a Chalkboard
It’s old news that many libraries suffer for lack of money. After September 11th, Hinterland’s investment portfolio tanked with the...
For Troubled Students, More Protection, Not Less
The Virginia Tech shootings have prompted calls for tougher campus mental health policies. Ira Socol suggests colleges go the other way.
Writing as Warning
Some of you have written to ask how I, a writing teacher, feel about the creative writing connection in the...
Merit and Access
Colleges winning acclaim for shifts in strategies are doing more to help themselves in the competition for students than to help students who can't afford college, writes Daniel F. Sullivan.
The Eternal Sophomore
Kurt Vonnegut is dead. So it goes. Scott McLemee gets unstuck in time.
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Our deepest sympathies go to those at Virginia Tech and their families. Violence on any campus is an attack on...
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