We hinted at in today’s episode 25, but the student blogging series will be going online tomorrow!
It will feature posts about the case for blogging, why students in particular need to blog, and interviews with some successful student bloggers. Stay tuned!
We took some shots the other day with one of our friends in the HackCollege T-Shirt! We think that they turned out pretty well. We like objectifying women.
Blatant sexographies aside, we would also like to remind everyone that our shirts are made by Homeboy Industries. Homeboy helps recently incarcerated (and unincarcerated?) people get back on their feet. As their motto says, “Jobs not Jails.” Every shirt purchase is that much more. Buy your T-Shirts with pride!
You would think that this week would be national JuicyCampus week or something. Last night at LMU, a senior girl hosted a debate and panel about JuicyCampus.com at LMU.
Here is the video of the debate.
One thing that has always been neglected in the JuicyCampus debate at LMU is the slightly potential that JuicyCampus can be used for good. When there was a shooting a little while ago just outside LMU’s pearly white gates, JuicyCampus was the first source to provide accurate information about the incident. The hivemind beat Public Safety; it beat the campus newspaper to the digital scene.
Banning the site wouldn’t work thanks to things like Tor. Boycotting the site would be pointless because of its persistence at other schools. JuicyCampus is on its way out; conventional wisdom tells me people don’t check it nearly as often as they do. And JuicyCampus is finding it tougher by the day to find advertisers.
With Coachella happening this weekend in the desert of southern California, the music festival season (known to some simply as “summer”) is here. Music and college are often closely associated; the same goes for music and weed and also weed and college. There must be a connection there somewhere…
HackCollege covered and did some live blogging last year from Coachella 2007. Check out the past posts:
Summer music festivals are a great way to blow off some steam, spend some hard-earned work-study money and forget about the world. Here are a few tips for the festival-goers.
The New York Times Education section published an article yesterday about universities that are drastically revamping their financial aid programs. Rather than aiming for ethnic or geographic diversity, big name schools are focusing on economic diversity, something that books like Freakonomics have been all about.
You would think that JuicyCampus would be long and gone by now, but such is not the case. The news and politics podcast/show/awesome asked Yale students about JuicyCampus today. Great stuff.
The crew is joined this week by a newcomer Scott Davidson a.k.a. Scott2K. He’ll be helping Scott and Chris into the future with technology tips and tricks. Keep your tech glasses on!