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Oxbridge Student Ski Strip Triggers Outrage

Mary Papenfuss — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 02:23:00 CST

Apparently students at America's Ivies aren't the only silver-spoon kids who get into trouble. Now a group of Cambridge and Oxford students are in hot water for stripping down on the slopes during a traditional high-profile ski outing. The raunchy behavior has hit the media, and an angry sponsor is...

O'Donnell Fudged Calif. University Credential, Too

Mary Papenfuss — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 07:50:00 CDT

Oxford isn't the only school Delaware senate candidate Christine O'Donnell didn't attend, no matter how many times she might say that she did. "Claremont Graduate University has no student or education record for an individual named Christine O'Donnell," says a unequivocal statement from the school in answer to the latest...

Christopher Hitchens: Bicurious Youth

Evann Gastaldo — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 09:35:13 CDT

Vanity Fair columnist Christopher Hitchens is straight—twice-married, in fact—but that didn’t stop him from steamy prep school sex with his male classmates. Below, a sampling of leaked excerpts from his upcoming memoir, courtesy of Gawker and an earlier article in the Times : “Most boys decided quite early on...

Twitter's @Oxfordgirl Takes On Iran

Nick McMaster — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 17:03:51 CST

From the quiet English village of Oxfordshire, an anonymous Twitter user has become an important figure in the opposition movement. Tweeting from her handle " Oxfordgirl ," the remote revolutionary has made use of contacts from her time as a journalist in Tehran to spread news of the movement. Since the contested...

Rolle Looks to Cash In on Rhodes Scholar Jaunt

Kevin Spak — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 08:50:30 CST

Myron Rolle thinks he can make up the roughly $8 million he passed up by putting off the NFL for a year to be a Rhodes scholar with endorsement deals from companies enticed by his mix of brains and brawn. Rolle’s agents are working the phones, and have already snagged...

Latest Facebook Star: 2009 Word of the Year

Kevin Spak — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 16:56:18 CST

In a move sure to get English majors talking, the New Oxford American Dictionary has crowned “unfriend” as its Word of the Year for 2009. And yes, the verb means exactly what you think it means: "To remove someone as a ‘friend’ on a social networking site such as Facebook....

Asia, UK Challenge US Supremacy in Higher Ed

Nick McMaster — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 18:36:25 CDT

The United States is home to more top-level universities than any other country in the world, this year’s survey by Times Higher Education confirms, but its advantage may not last forever. Although 54 of the top 200 schools are in the US, Asia is making remarkable progress: Japan has 11...

Colleges Seek Kids' Opinions on Grapefruit, Perfect Crime

Ambreen Ali — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 12:34:00 CST

Bored with prospective students regurgitating textbook knowledge, Cambridge and Oxford have revamped their interview questions to include the abstract (Would you rather be a novel or a poem?), the existential (What does it mean to be happy?), and the downright crazy (How would you poison someone and get away with...

Iran Impeaches Minister for Fake Oxford Degree

Kevin Spak — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 15:08:48 CST

It turns out lying on your resume is frowned upon in Tehran, too. Iran’s parliament gave Interior Minister Ali Kordan the boot today, for posing as an honorary Oxford law graduate, the Daily Telegraph reports. Kordan’s bogus diploma is riddled with typos and misspellings, declaring Kordan “intitled” to an honorary...