The College Fix

News

• Harvard expects endowment payout to rise 4 percent

  Noah S. Rayman - Harvard Crimson •September 21, 2010

  The news comes less than two weeks after the University announced that the endowment had grown to $27.4 billion.

• Stanford researchers patent pressure-sensitive e-Skin

  Kathleeen Chaykowski - Stanford Daily •September 21, 2010

  Pressure-sensitive, synthetic skin could be used for prosthetic limbs, burn victims' treatment, touchscreens and medical instruments.

• Peretz removed from speaking list for anniversary event

  Julia R. Jeffries - Harvard Crimson •September 21, 2010

  Peretz recently wrote that "Muslim life is cheap" in a blog post. He apologized for some, but not all, of the blog post.

• Student loan defaults surge across public, private colleges

  Sofia Economopoulos - Daily Cavalier •September 21, 2010

  Default rates at public institutions rose from 5.9 to 6 percent, private institutions rose from 3.7 to 4 percent.

• Iowa State professor runs for governor as libertarian

  Tyler Kingkade - Iowa State Daily •September 21, 2010

  Eric Cooper admits he won't win. What he wants, in the tradition of the Socialist Party, is for the major parties to "poach" the issues on the libertarian platform.

• '90210' ignores continuity, moves into full-blown idiocy

  Andrew Padgett - Tufts Daily •September 20, 2010

  Senior. Year. Baby. Prepare to be brutally assaulted with these three words for the first two minutes of “90210’s” third season premiere — if viewers even make it that far, that is.