Just seven short days after FlyBy’s last exploration into life at other schools, much more has gone down at our peer institutions this week than at Harvard—which, come to think of it, isn’t really saying much.
According to his manager, James Franco, star of the Spider Man movies, has been accepted at Yale to earn a Ph.D. in—you’ll never guess—English. According to the Yale Daily News, Franco, a current student in Columbia’s Master of Fine Arts program, has not yet accepted the offer. Perhaps he is waiting to hear back from a certain other Ivy league school?
And, it seems, the Yale student video maestros are back in action. This week’s release is about three horny, quasi-artsy dudes who are desperate for a hook up and a chance to, well, kiss a girl. Worth a watch, but not quite up to the standards of “That’s Why I Chose Yale.”
At Princeton, a freshman member of the women’s soccer team is suing the University for 100 percent extra time on all administered examinations. After filing the suit in October and having received a 50 percent time extension from the University for examinations in January, the student maintains that her learning differences still keep her at a disadvantage.
In other news, the University of Michigan has just elected its first openly gay student body president. According to The Michigan Daily, the victor—LGBT Commission Chair Chris Armstrong—said that he hopes his win will demonstrate that any student can demonstrate the “spirit of Michigan.”
Meanwhile, down in Texas, a group of students at Trinity University in San Antonio is petitioning the Board of Trustees to remove the phrase “in the Year of Our Lord” from diplomas. They argue that “Our Lord” references Jesus, and that not everyone believes in Jesus. Pretty noble effort, but Trinity, founded by Presbyterians in 1869, still maintains a “covenant relationship” with the church.
In Washington, D.C., a fellow student journalist at American University penned a column in which he argued that “any woman who heads to an EI party as an anonymous onlooker, drinks five cups of the jungle juice, and walks back to a boy's room with him is indicating that she wants sex, OK?” Have a look-see at his defense of his piece on national television.