A few months back Vassar thoroughly embarrassed itself when a ‘technical glitch’ delivered 70 acceptance letters to high school seniors the world over–by mistake. Now U.C.L.A. has been struck by the same mysterious case of the stupids. If anything, the California school’s boo-boo was worse, since this time 894 high school students had their hopes raised, then dashed: Read More
From Vassar’s sesquicentennial celebration
Vassar College recently ruined the weekends of applicants around the world–by sending out more than 70 mistaken acceptance letters to students who had applied for early decision admission. Students from Singapore, Tunisia and the U.S. all went through something of a roller coaster ride due to a basic clerical error: Read More
Michele Norris is the first black female to host a major weekday show at NPR, but there was no mention of her in This Is NPR, a book celebrating the 40th anniversary of the public radio organization.
Norris told the Tampa Bay Tribune that she was “disappointed” by her omission from the Read More
