College Life

College life, student culture and campus trends.

• Married Harvard undergrads seek balance

  Jane Seo - Harvard Crimson

  About 7 percent of American college students are married, but at Harvard, the number of married students is far below the national average.

• Veterans face unique challenges as students at Iowa State

  Taysha Murtagh - Iowa State Daily

  Iowa’s deployment rate is also the highest it’s been since World War II. The university developed ways to assist students like Pithan, whose life plans change in an instant.

• ‘Law & Order: SVU’ episode based on Duke sex powerpoint airs

  Julia Love - Duke Chronicle

  A powerpoint ranking college guys on how good they were in bed? Has there ever been a headline more likely to become an SVU episode?

• Despite AlcoholEdu, Stanford hospitalizations on the rise

  Harsh Govil - SFPA Contributor

  Is AlcoholEdu teaching anyone anything about drinking?

• Q&A: Yale professor talks ‘holy’ Harry Potter

  Iva Popa - Yale Daily News

  Harry Potter might have a place in heaven — at least according to one Yale professor.

• Bud Selig named official faculty member at Marquette

  Patrick Porwoll - Badger Herald

  Marquette University Law School has formally named Major League Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig to the adjunct faculty for being a lecturer in sports law and policy.

• Students consider religious conversion at Tufts

  Maya Kohli - Tufts Daily

  Roughly half of American adults have switched religious affiliation at least once in their lives, study says.

• Planes, trains, automobiles: Holiday travelers to face obstacles

  Cali Owings - Minnesota Daily

  Whether traveling by plane, bus or car, students returning home for the Thanksgiving holiday may face a few speed bumps on the way.

• Few show for talk on Native American mascoting

  Mark Miller - Maryland Diamondback

  Event planners had predicted 180 attendees — 25 showed up — to hear a lecture on why the Redskins’ logo is wrong.

• American students find ways around Chinese censorship

  Sony Rao - Duke Chronicle

  American students studying abroad encounter the online Chinese censorship all the same as Chinese citizens.