Our rankings in the Princeton Review’s The Best 361 Colleges hit the fan this morning. Specifically, the various fun lists that make up a set of gray pages in the front of the thick book.

We got listed in the following:

14 on Most Beautiful Campus

1 on Students Most Nostalgic for Bill Clinton

15 on Most Politicaly Active Students

3 on Birkenstock-Wearing, Tree-Hugging, Clove-Smoking Vegetarians

and of course

1 on Reefer Madness

I’ll go with the “any publicity is good publicity” tack this morning.

Sometime in the last decade our local paper started hating us.
At least they blunted the article a little toward the end.

*cries*

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From ‘A Softer World’

There is an argument made against privacy that says someone who isn’t engaged in criminal behavior has nothing to hide. This method of thinking allowed the US government to slowly sap away our civil liberties in the wake of the 9/11 attacks–many have just accepted that trading privacy for security is acceptable and used the “nothing to hide” argument to rationalize what was, essentially, a decision based on fear. However, limiting the government’s ability to intrude in our private lives is easy compared with attempting to control how personal information spreads on the internet via gossip. Rather than spies or wiretaps, gossip is often gathered by those we trust and spread online by people who don’t understand or appreciate the potential for the damage it can do. In reality, privacy is about much more than concealing wrongdoing.

Internet-based abuse (‘cyberbullying’) and privacy / relationship issues are still massively misunderstood. The complexities of online sociality are probably the biggest ‘generational divide’ between modern teens and adults. To help put it in perspective a bit, here are some numbers…

I HAVE A MYSPACE ACCOUNT!!1!