Aram Zucker-Scharff

The College-Loan Scandal: Matt Taibbi on the Ripping Off of Young America | Politics News | Rolling Stone:

The federal government has made it easier than ever to borrow money for higher education – saddling a generation with crushing debts and inflating a bubble that could bring down the economy

The bi-partisan congressional solution: delay a year, after which student loans go up to 7.25 to 8.8%. 

The president’s solution: Make a press-worthy attack on banks while ignoring skyrocketing base costs.

The results: an exponentially growing economic bubble whose burst will make the real estate bubble look like a polite hiccup.

The Journalism Internship From Hell:

Editors cared about this sensational stuff because it had once sold newspapers. But now almost nothing inspired people to buy a hard copy from a newsstand when all of the same stories were available online, free, immediately. Even voyeurism couldn’t save these sinking ships, so why was I there? It was difficult to imagine Woodward and Bernstein sweating under the Miami sun, almost crying, disgusted with themselves for what they were doing. Would they call this journalism? Should I?

When will academic institutions learn that outsourcing their online learning services is always a mistake?

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Bomb threat at Princeton University

(Photo: NBC Philadelphia)

Students, staff and visitors were told to “evacuate immediately” this morning at Princeton University in Mercer County, N.J.

More on this developing story from NBC Philadelphia

Keeping an eye on.