By Matt Reed. A few days ago the whole family was watching tv together when someone onscreen made a reference to the Cold War. The Girl, 11, asked “how did THAT start?” 
The best I could come up with in the moment was “it’s a long story.” I’m not proud of that. More...

By Matt Reed. Like much of the East Coast, we’ve been hit recently with heavy winds and their attendant damage. On Monday the campus actually lost power for about an hour in the early afternoon as crews worked on repairing a couple of poles near campus that trees had taken down. More...

By Matt Reed. If you haven’t seen Tim Burke’s latest, check it out.
Budgets look different at the Swarthmores of the world than at most community colleges. More...

After rejecting his notice to ban the mingling of girl and boy students on and off campus, the Swat University has suspended its chief proctor, Mohammad Bilal, over the “unlawful” move, writes Fazal Khaliq for DAWN. Read more...

A large beach ball (at right) has set off a debate over free speech at the University of Delaware. The university's chapter of Young Americans for Liberty brought the ball to a campus quad and encouraged people to write whatever they wanted on the beach ball, declaring it to be a "free speech ball". Read more...

College students will soon be able to pay for rides from Uber with a service from Blackboard. The technology company on Tuesday announced a partnership with the ride-hailing service that will let students use Transact, Blackboard's cashless payment application, when requesting a ride. Read more...