On July 1, a law banning California drivers from having a conversation on a hand-held phone will go into effect. The law will have two big side effects: It will increase sales of Bluetooth technology and illustrate how sadly ineffective our state government is. Read more...

Viacom v. Google/YouTube, also known as executives versus college students and hip people the world over, has reached a boiling point. Read more...

Activism is a hallmark of higher education, but I don't know if we, as a college student collective, have improved at it since our "revolutionary" progenitors of the '60s and '70s. I Read more...

This week, students will participate in Mighty Mic, a campaign to educate the campus community about genocide. The student activists organizing this campaign have put together a comprehensive program that includes concerts, film screenings and educational symposiums. Read more...

In a refreshing step toward improving the higher education admissions process, two colleges, Smith College and Wake Forest University, have recently lifted their SAT/ACT requirement for prospective students. Read more...

Students at Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio, have a very special shower ritual. Every day as they leave the shower, students living in the Student Experiment in Ecological Design house, or SEED, jump from the shower and check the timer on the wall. Read more...