May 30, 2011 - 9:34am
In Other Ivory Towers: ‘U’ of Colorado ranks top party school
BY PAIGE PEARCY
The University of Colorado at Boulder took first place in Playboy’s 2011 party school rankings that were released last week, according to an April 15 ABC News article.
When creating the rankings, Playboy looks at the male to female ratio, the percentage of winning sports teams and how close the schools are to beaches and ski slopes, the article states. Playboy also conducts interviews with students and alumni of the schools.
Last year’s top party school, The University of Texas at Austin, slipped to number five this year, ABC news reported.
Penn State University and Arizona State University took the second and third spots, respectively, in this year's ranking.
La Salle University tries to censor School newspaper
The Collegian, the student newspaper at La Salle University in Philadelphia, left the area above the fold blank in last Wednesday’s paper, except for the words “See below the Fold,” according to an April 15 article in The Philadelphia Inquirer.
The newspaper made the decision after being granted permission to run a story about a professor having exotic dancers come to an off-campus business seminar on the condition that it run below the fold, the article states.
The article about the professor was written and ready to run in the paper on April 7, but the paper was told it could not run the story until the university had completed its investigation, according to The Inquirer. After the students at The Collegian argued to run the story since multiple other news outlets had already reported it, the dean of students agreed to let the story run, pending that the university’s lawyer read it beforehand, The Inquirer reported.
The story was originally slated to be a front-page feature article, according to The Inquirer. But when the students were told the article had to run below the fold, they moved the entire section, including the newspaper's masthead, below the fold.
University of Colorado journalism school closes
The University of Colorado's Board of Regents voted to close the university’s School of Journalism and Mass Communication on the Boulder campus last Thursday, according to an April 14 article in the Boulder Daily Camera.
The school is closing due to state budget cuts and the possibility of one of the graduate programs in the school losing accreditation. The school’s closure is the first in the history of the university, the Boulder Daily Camera reported.
An alternative to the school called “Journalism Plus” has been proposed, according to the article. The program would require students to double major in journalism and a different area of study, but would not allow students to graduate solely with a bachelor’s degree in journalism. Students would also have the option of choosing a minor in journalism, according to the article.
