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Coach Brand Teaches Students How To Be Dirty Shills

Hunter College, the luxury brand Coach, fraudulent PR campaigns, and dishonest corporate collaboration with academia are the topics of the day today. Important topics! Adweek has just come out with a long investigative piece on a Coach-sponsored PR class at Hunter, which reeks of impropriety and dishonesty, and ended up tangling a bunch of college kids up in a fake online PR blog that makes them all look like a bunch of shady, dishonest undercover marketing hacks. "I knew a lot of hell would break loose about the class. And it did," said the teacher. Indeed. The condensed version of the whole sordid tale, after the jump. More »

4:12 PM on Mon May 5 2008
By Hamilton Nolan
5,586 views, 33 comments

Latest by n/a: Tis was awesome when it was going down at Hunter. I remember the ridiculous posters and the even more ridiculous "Break the Chain" anti-counterfiting festival with handy stickers about how counterfeit Coach bags are made by 4 year olds in more »

Dartmouth's Dearth of Dictionaries Dartmouth Dean of First-Year students Gail M. Zimmerman, in an email to students threatened with a lawsuit by Priya Venkatesan:
Questions arose as to our ability to block Prof. Venkatesan's emails. Whether that ability exists or not, it would not likely stop her emails from reaching your inbox given the dearth and ready availability of other free email systems such as hotmail, gmail, and yahoo.
Ah, yes. The "dearth and ready availability" of free email addresses. You never cease to impress us, Ivies! [Dartlog via IvyGate]

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College Professors Very Concerned About How Their Students Fuck

"College students today enter a low hook-up culture when they leave the classroom," warns Harvard professor Harvey Mansfield in his WSJ review of the newest overwrought book about college kids fucking. "In case you don't know, a hook-up is a brief sexual encounter between two partners who don't necessarily know each other before and who don't necessarily want to know each other after." Sounds costly. "And it's free." Well, that's a bonus! "The sort of transient sex that once was available to men only for money can now be had, without paying, from college women - as long as the man is a fellow student and minimally artful about his approach." Good lord, is that new? I don't remember that. "If he is thwarted in one overture, he may try another with a reasonable prospect of success." That, sadly, is just the intro paragraph. More »

12:43 PM on Tue Apr 29 2008
By Hamilton Nolan
5,702 views, 47 comments

Latest by minx: "sex can now be had...as long as the man is a fellow student and minimally artful about his approach" which is so goddamn unfair - used to be that college professors got laid, too, but we had to lecture for more »

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Crisis In Academia: Books Are Going Unreviewed!

Last week, the NYT Book Review gave a page to MuggleNet's What Will Happen In Harry Potter 7. Today, as discussed, they reviewed the autobiography of Ron Jeremy. It is a fun little paper, the NYTBR. But the professors over at The New Republic's education blog are not amused. America, they say, is in urgent need of a new book review. Who will review Richard Rorty and Pascal Engel's What's the Use of Truth? Who will meditate on Dale Zacher's The Scripps Newspapers Go to War, 1914-18? Whoooo? More »

5:26 PM on Sat Feb 17 2007
By Choire
607 views, 6 comments

Latest by maitresse: There is an even more serious component to this: that our "culture" has become one which sneers endlessly at academics and their so-called ivory tower. What are you even saying, MickFNS? That the academics (who, in posting on a New more »