Everybody's college experience is different in the United States. So much so, that it's difficult to generalize and hypothesize on whether or not college students are learning anything. However, new research from NYU sociologist Richard Arum suggests that college students are definitively not learning . "[Arum] notes that several studies suggest students are spending less time studying, reading and writing than they have in the past. And he cites a recent analysis conducted by a consortium of universities that showed no significant improvement in critical thinking after four years." Of course, critics [...]
Liam Singer 's sublime album of last year, Dislocatia , is currently charting at 37 on the CJSW 's (awesome Canadian radio station to the uninitiated) Top 50! Keep tuned for more Dislocatia news as a new single off the album will be out soon. In the meanwhile you can stream the album in full at the HSR Store . Liam Singer - Words Make The Master Liam Singer - Words Make The Master
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We here at EOLA support a wide variety of music and cultural events, especially in the Inland Empire. As some of us from the team are alumni of UC Riverside, we wanted to give you all a heads up on a event from the very strong UC Riverside Presents series that our school is organizing. Not only do the programs bring in some of the world's most renowned artists and musicians, but many are free of charge, such as this one: Protean violinist Daniel Bernard Roumain (DBR) [...]
Philadelphia, PA/Washington, DC indie rock act Jukebox The Ghost are heading out soon on a massive tour of colleges and universities, but they have no idea where they should play, sou, you know, here's where you come in. The band right now are running a really great Web-based "College Application" scheme, where you can sign [...]
I think that I had to be sixteen or seventeen before I ever held an electric guitar. It must have been a BC Rich as it belonged to the younger brother of my buddy Beej and younger brother was a metalhead who aspired to join Dave Murray and Adrian Smith in Iron Maiden. The next time I ever held a guitar was a good five years later. A housemate in college, Billy, owned a white '64 Gibson SG. Many nights we'd be hanging out in the living room watching some bad movie on [...]
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Ok, its NYE and you know we're getting bonkers as hell... and we want you to party with us. Lets do it through your speakers. As you know, we have a hobby of getting Nurdy and NYE is just one of those special nights that gives us the excuse to get ridiculous... So, in the effort to turn the page on 2010 and make 11 epic, we're giving you a two roundups. Below, we have compiled one of the Nurdiest Remix Roundups to date. We, Joel & Scott are proud to present Remix Roundup Vol. 35... [...]
There are a lot of music fans today recalling and recounting the details of their lives when they learned that John Lennon had been murdered. My memories are hazy and uneventful. December 8, 1980 was a Monday and a lot of folks had the sad news broken to them on Monday Night Football , but I had gone to bed at halftime and missed Howard Cosell's anouncement. The next morning, I might have heard the news on Good Morning America . The television was undoubtedly tuned to the show as [...]
Licking cracked lips on cold days like these, my mind often drifts back to wide-eyed undergrad times. Or at least as wide-eyed as my cranky temperament allowed. I remember hanging out with my bandmates listening to the likes of Beekeeper and instinctively trying to incorporate their best ideas into whatever stew we were trying to cook up. At some distance, I can now appreciate that lack of focus, the utopian sense that just about anything can work together. (That'd be the wide-eyed part, I guess.) And now, this song — with a steely austerity that finds room for harmony in [...]
In which I bring you every good remix ever. Hold on to your hats. For this week's dose of celestial beauty, we look to LA's Active Child and Phantogram, of upstate New York, who both toy expertly with a couple of songs off School of Seven Bells' spring release, Disconnect from Desire. Bells' Cranberries moment "Heart [Read Full Post...]
I went to Kitsuné College, what about you? Taken from the Kitsuné Tee series 4, this sweater and hoodie are inspired by the Kitsuné Fall Winter 2010 IVY LEAGUE collection reinterpreting the preppy style of the famous American colleges ... both are available in grey and blue on our webstore. Click here for the hoodie [...]
Thanksgiving was the finest of holidays - feasting, football, feasting, and leftovers for midnight feastings. The calculus of the holiday changed dramatically after leaving for college. There was still the feasting and football, but it was now a complex puzzle of equations to balance feast, football and familial obligations with the chance to hang out with your high school friends (who were also battling the same logistical issues). Coordinating getting together was a series of fits and starts. Half a day or more could be blown trying to track down who was [...]
She never came back. Think of college and the memories that go with it. What's the first thing that comes to mind? Skipping lessons? Sleeping in after arriving home at 4am following a raucous spontaneous night out? Racing hormones upon brushing past that special someone in the corridor? Avoiding a teacher that you're pretty convinced has an inappropriate crush on you? All of the above may very well be valid, but Valerie Collective founder College has definitely usurped them for me. This isn't just [...]
Silver Mt. Zion, Tra-La-La Band - Horses In The Sky (Live) I worked for eight and a quarter an hour, doing bullshit work, but I didn't mind it much because for the first time in my life I didn't have homework. Every afternoon I would come home to my subleased apartment and plop myself down on the vomit brown loveseat I'd inherited when the Burks' grandmother had died, and I would put on a record. I vacuumed, but the house was dirty. Particles of dust would swirl in the rays of sunlight splayed by [...]
college - "secret diary" (download) Another great one from French producer College . College is part of France's Valerie Collective , a group of musicians who continue to impress with their take on dark, 802s synth songs. This particular record, also titled Secret Diary was released back in 2008 on Futur Records . myspace buy
PhD Application Letter Thought this might have some value in sharing. Used this for some of my personal statements in the PhD app process. Also a little gaze into my past. Working in the Chicago Public Schools was quite the...
Official Website MySpace Facebook Twitter One of my biggest pleasure when Fall comes a knockin' is not the slow descent into cold weather or when everything seems to be turning into the color grey when all the leaves dies out, it's the return of the CMJ Music Marathon, the last BIG music festival of the year where college music is [...]
Bag Raiders have easily been my most played artists of the last month or so, ever since the release of their album. It's pretty great, but my favourite track is still "Way Back Home", which we posted back in September . We just got this remix by Melbourne's 1928 which adds a retro techno feel to the acid pop of the original. 1928 has played as main support for a string of impressing names, like Tiga, Breakbot, Sinden, Fred Falke, LA Riots and Yuksek, to only name (very) few. He also has [...]
A headline that Domino's is, for the first time, having a location near the University Of Dayton that will be open 'round the clock popped from the screen at me. Pizza at all hours is an idea is so obvious I have to wonder if anyone at the top of the food chain at Domino's has taken time to calculate the millions (billions?) of dollars in revenue lost by not providing drunken college students an alternative to small, square burgers sold by the dozen. Imagine the sights you would surely see delivering pizza at four [...]
I came upon these pictures from the Princeton 1966 yearbook while tracking down a copy of Take Ivy . These shots are reminiscent of those in Hayashida's book, but they are actually from a year later and were just published in the school yearbook. I went to prep school and I did not look this cool. What I love about these shots is the feeling of potential that is conveyed. I feel like important things are being discussed; movers and shakers are in the making. It appears impossible to not achieve ultimate focus in [...]
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