"There are so many more ways to be a twenty-something, it used to be get your job, you get married, boom you're done. (Now) Am I back at school, am I working? That's part of the reason it's so splintering: no one knows what their path is, so you feel...

Last Wednesday, Duke University students burned benches as part of a ritual they do every time the men's basketball team beats the University of North Carolina at home. The long time rivalry between these two schools saw a historic game unfold on Feb 9, as Duke was down...

It was 6 a.m. on March 13, 2009. I leapt from my bed knowing both Yale and Harvard had responded to my graduate school applications. Sitting at my kitchen table, I logged in, waited, knowing my future was on the line in two emails. My heart sank. It was a...

What the heck do you do if everyone thinks your pizza sucks? Domino's Pizza faced this grim question a few years ago after several costumer surveys came back with disparaging results. Rather than suppress the negative feedback or resort to ugly corporate backbiting, they devised a new marketing strategy--be brutally,...

In April 2008, Pastor Mark Driscoll of Mars Hill Church launched a tirade against Paul Young's bestselling novel The Shack. Driscoll claimed that the book was complete heresy: Paul Young is now seeking to refute his claims. A self-published international phenomenon, The Shack is about a man whose...

It's mid-afternoon and I overhear my boss pitching someone on the phone about the need for a housing first homeless shelter in Anchorage, Alaska. After a string of exposure-related deaths among the local homeless population over the last year, starting a housing first homeless shelter had become more...

There is an old argument for avoiding higher education: "Bill Gates dropped out of college and he's one of the richest men in the world." Isn't that convincing? Along the same lines, many students and parents have noted that Mark Zuckerberg dropped out of college to run Facebook, and have...

As Marquette University senior Cathleen Bury drove by campus on a recent afternoon, she saw an image reminiscent of the 1960's. Marquette was awash with student protesters. Marquette's President Rev. Robert A. Wild had withdrawn a job offer to Dr. Jodi O'Brien to become the dean...