This article appears in the Sports Illustrated Presents 75th Anniversary of the Heisman Trophy issue.
Sixteen years ago, after I wrote a memoir about my experience as a Latino in the Ivy League, I got a call from a retired Jewish obstetrician who saw his reflection in my words.
Sonia Sotomayor spent her first week at Princeton University obsessing over the sound of a cricket. Growing up in New York City, her only notion of this insect was Jiminy from "Pinocchio." She tore her dorm room apart looking for the critter every night.
Dear Annie: I just finished reading Matthew B. Crawford's new book, Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry Into the Value of Work, and it has really got me thinking. I always liked working with my hands, and I spend most of my free time woodworking (building furniture and cabinets for my family and friends) and tinkering with old cars. But like lots of other people, I got a college degree because I was told it would be the ticket to a lifetime of employment security. Ha! Pretty funny, right? Having been laid off twice in three years, I'm not laughing. Meanwhile, my wife's brother, who did an apprenticeship instead of college, owns a successful business as an electrician and has been urging me to come to work for him. It would be a complete career change but, having read Crawford's thoughts on how satisfying his motorcycle-repair shop is, I'm seriously considering leaving the corporate world behind. I'd be interested to hear what you and your readers think. -- White Collar Blues
Supreme Court nominee Judge Sonia Sotomayor years ago said she was a "product of affirmative action" when she was admitted to prestigious universities, but defended the contributions she offered as a Hispanic woman to classroom and workplace diversity.
Students at Princeton University were asked to remain indoors briefly Wednesday after a report of an armed man on campus, but police determined that there was no gunman, according to the university's Web site.
My Rolls-Royce is a lot more expensive than your Buick. A pint of Ben & Jerry's costs double the A&P generic brand. That makes sense. But when it comes to college tuition, the difference between the Harvards and the Podunks is not nearly so great.
Now is the time for a new beginning. And how it is approached may well turn on the often overlooked fact that both the president-elect and the vice president-elect are products of the U. S. Senate.
Seventy years later, a look back at the notorious, panic-inducing, Halloween eve airing of Orson Welles' The War of the Worlds
September 1 is the day that rosters expanded from 25 to 40, and hundreds of players from the minors get the call to spend the final month of the season in the big leagues. While plenty of top prospects won't get that call because such a move requires placement on the 40-man, there have still been many interesting names -- both new and old -- on the transaction wire over the last 48 hours, and here are ten story lines of note.
This article appears in the Sports Illustrated Presents 75th Anniversary of the Heisman Trophy issue.
Sixteen years ago, after I wrote a memoir about my experience as a Latino in the Ivy League, I got a call from a retired Jewish obstetrician who saw his reflection in my words.
Sonia Sotomayor spent her first week at Princeton University obsessing over the sound of a cricket. Growing up in New York City, her only notion of this insect was Jiminy from "Pinocchio." She tore her dorm room apart looking for the critter every night.
Dear Annie: I just finished reading Matthew B. Crawford's new book, Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry Into the Value of Work, and it has really got me thinking. I always liked working with my hands, and I spend most of my free time woodworking (building furniture and cabinets for my family and friends) and tinkering with old cars. But like lots of other people, I got a college degree because I was told it would be the ticket to a lifetime of employment security. Ha! Pretty funny, right? Having been laid off twice in three years, I'm not laughing. Meanwhile, my wife's brother, who did an apprenticeship instead of college, owns a successful business as an electrician and has been urging me to come to work for him. It would be a complete career change but, having read Crawford's thoughts on how satisfying his motorcycle-repair shop is, I'm seriously considering leaving the corporate world behind. I'd be interested to hear what you and your readers think. -- White Collar Blues
Supreme Court nominee Judge Sonia Sotomayor years ago said she was a "product of affirmative action" when she was admitted to prestigious universities, but defended the contributions she offered as a Hispanic woman to classroom and workplace diversity.
Students at Princeton University were asked to remain indoors briefly Wednesday after a report of an armed man on campus, but police determined that there was no gunman, according to the university's Web site.
My Rolls-Royce is a lot more expensive than your Buick. A pint of Ben & Jerry's costs double the A&P generic brand. That makes sense. But when it comes to college tuition, the difference between the Harvards and the Podunks is not nearly so great.
Now is the time for a new beginning. And how it is approached may well turn on the often overlooked fact that both the president-elect and the vice president-elect are products of the U. S. Senate.
Seventy years later, a look back at the notorious, panic-inducing, Halloween eve airing of Orson Welles' The War of the Worlds
September 1 is the day that rosters expanded from 25 to 40, and hundreds of players from the minors get the call to spend the final month of the season in the big leagues. While plenty of top prospects won't get that call because such a move requires placement on the 40-man, there have still been many interesting names -- both new and old -- on the transaction wire over the last 48 hours, and here are ten story lines of note.
Princeton University's policy of not allowing its officers to carry guns on campus doesn't hurt the officers' ability to do their jobs, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration ruled.
M. Night Shyamalan was once Hollywood's crown prince of horror, but now his artistic degeneration -- visible in this week's The Happening -- is just plain creepy
On a drizzly afternoon in early May, Craig Robinson addressed about 100 Oregon State boosters in a large banquet room in Portland. He stepped to a podium next to an American flag and opened with a playful joke about the height of the school's athletic director, 5' 7" Bob De Carolis, the man who hired him in April to coach OSU's basketball team.
For a riff on the news of Justine Henin's retirement, click here.
Could the fourth time be the charm to knock off three-time defending national champion Northwestern? Perhaps. The Wildcats' 36-game win streak dating back to last season was broken by Penn when mental breakdowns and lackluster plays kept Northwestern from getting past the Quakers' tough defense.
Can we all just stop the silly nonsense over who is an elitist and whether an "average American" will occupy the White House?
For David Richardson, coach of the Sockers FC Chicago youth club, Michael Bradley serves as a perfect example for his current players.
To understand why Georgetown coach John Thompson III regards basketball the way he does -- as an accretion of details and small remediations -- it's worth revisiting a February night in Providence in 1988. Back then Thompson served as Princeton's senior co-captain, and the Tigers led Brown by two points with seconds to play. As he prepared to inbound under his own basket, Thompson began to experience what he calls "the loneliest feeling in basketball."
Universities are always looking for cash from their alumni (or anyone else with a big enough checkbook). But sometimes colleges are offered donations of another variety. Here are stories of six rather unusual gifts given to universities across the world.
Maybe it's too many years of Bushes of one sort or another. Perhaps it's the prospect of too many years of Clintons of this type or that. But something has me thinking this way, and I can't be the only person who believes the legacy thing has gotten a little out of hand in college basketball.
Volatility. That's the one thing that seems predictable in today's stock market. Share prices are swinging up and down more violently than they have anytime in the past five years. And that seems likely to continue.
In the latest in a disturbing string of campus fakes, a Princeton student's assault and death threats turn out to have been a hoax
A few weeks ago, I offered up the thoughts of Gary Walters, the distinguished athletic director at Princeton, that sport should be held in the same high regard as art. I thought it was a rather interesting and cogent opinion for someone to posit ... but in the fabled words of the longtime football announcer, Keith Jackson: "Whoa, Nellie!"
Long before he became the 38th president of the United States, Gerald Ford was better known as No. 48, an All-America center at Michigan and a star on the school's undefeated 1932 and '33 national championship teams. Here's a sampling of the uniform numbers of some well-known figures before they suited up for Hollywood and Washington.
Question: My wife and I are planning to retire next year when I'll be 59 and she'll be 60. Together we have about $600,000 in a 401(k), plus I have a pension that I can take as a lump sum of approximately $1 million or as an annuity that will pay $60,000 a year to me or my wife as long as one of us is alive. I'd prefer to take the lump sum and invest the money myself. I'm thinking of laddering bonds plus investing in some mutual funds to hedge inflation. What do you think of my plan? - Peter, Princeton, New Jersey
For this election, Joe Klein offers an agenda of five issues for judging just how serious the candidates are
A college education may be getting less expensive at some of the most prestigious schools.
It is a sign of poor relations between donor and charity when the donor's heir takes a hacksaw to the charity's filing cabinets.
So how are you doing? Money-wise, that is.
Princeton University said it will not raise its tuition for the 2007-2008 school year, holding it steady - at $33,000 - for the first time since 1967.
In the interest of full disclosure, I think cheerleading is absolutely stupid. Also in the interest of full disclosure, I dated a girl in college who'd been a high school cheerleader. She still thought it was super rad. I didn't, and I couldn't pretend. I even had her read Rick Reilly's fantastic October 1999 column that wonderfully elucidated the frivolity of cheerleading. She and I only dated about two more months. I guess we just couldn't see eye to G-double-O-D E-Y-E.
With the market struggling to eke out even meager gains this year, you may be tempted to look beyond traditional investments for something, anything, to fatten up your retirement account.
With the market struggling to eke out even meager gains this year, you may be tempted to look beyond traditional investments for something, anything, to fatten up your retirement account.
It's the summer before your senior year, and you're sweating.
Million-dollar homes are not exactly a novelty in some parts of the United States, according to real estate brokerage giant Coldwell Banker.
Ben Bernanke currently serves as the chairman of President Bush's Council of Economic Advisers, which provides the president with analysis and advice on economic issues.
Black job applicants without criminal records are equally likely to be hired as their white counterparts who have served time in prison, according to a recent Princeton University study.
Princeton University students are showing support for the filibuster by staging their own.
In some ways, Mary Still is a typical weight-loss success story. She changed her eating habits, started working out and dropped 82 pounds in a year.
John Bogle was an idealistic Princeton economics major in 1951 when he wrote a thesis on the performance of a handful of actively managed mutual funds. His argument: It is almost impossible to cons...
Grantham Mayo Van Otterloo is one of the best-performing fund families in the country. With some of the world's ritziest clients, including the Yale and Princeton endowment funds, it has status to burn.
LIFE AND DEATH It's official: People are living longer, according to the American Academy of Actuaries. Based on newly approved mortality tables used by the life insurance industry, the maximum the...
If you know anything about investing, you'll probably be surprised to learn that John "Jack" Bogle was a subpar college student. Even though Bogle would eventually create the first index mutual fun...
It seems as if the best minds on Wall Street are actually at the nation's top universities. The schools with the five biggest endowments in the U.S. have all made the grade, beating the S&P 500 by ...
If the financial aid arena is a marketplace, then Princeton University "is the market mover," says Dan Lundquist, dean of admissions and financial aid at Union College. With its $8.5 billion endowm...
With college aid increasingly coming in the form of loans, not grants, student debt levels are higher than ever. The Department of Education's most recent survey found that students at private scho...
For America's high school seniors, April is the cruelest month. That's when colleges flood the postal system with news of who has won a place in next fall's freshman class. For more than a few fami...
All over cable TV, commentators are yapping with speculation about presidential running mates. Mostly they speculate about the same old names. But play that parlor game with a presidential appointm...
You can imagine it already: retirement day. Fond farewells, a new watch, confetti in your hair. Then, time to relax forever! No alarm clocks, no morning meetings. Why, with all that new freedom, yo...
Even a dart-throwing chimpanzee can select a portfolio that performs as well as one chosen by the experts." That devastating verdict from Princeton finance professor Burton Malkiel's classic book, ...
At 16, Katherine Haynie put together a car stereo and fell in love with audio engineering. So when she applied to college, she set her sights on the prestigious Massachusetts Institute of Technolog...
Are you confident that your two-year-old is Princeton caliber? If so, you'll soon be able to indulge in the ultimate act of parental hubris by paying your toddler's tuition at that Ivy League schoo...
Friends, let's start with the really important stuff: This is an urgent medical bulletin to anybody out there who falls asleep in meetings, or knows someone who falls asleep in meetings, or just ge...
When is it irresponsible to spend too little on research?
Congratulations. Junior just got accepted to Princeton. All that remains is for you, proud parent, to take up the not-so-small matter of the bill: some $121,385 over four years, thank you, not incl...
Ever wake up in the wee hours with your mind churning along the following lines: Your kids are now how old? Boy, college isn't that far off. Assuming an annual inflation rate of 3% or 4%, within te...
June's article about crime and violence in America, "You're Safer Than You Think," provoked a strong response from MONEY readers. You seemed most surprised by three findings: 1) The risk of being a...
It was bad enough that the budget bill enacted last year raised taxes on well- heeled married couples relative to unmarried individuals with the same income. Tax consultants to the wealthy made sur...
College graduates in 1991 earned over 50% more than high school grads, up from 33% in 1979. Why the rise? One answer comes from Princeton economist Alan Krueger. Analyzing government surveys, he fo...
While politicians from Western states loudly decry any proposal to lift gasoline taxes, nary a peep has been heard from states about to be hammered by an income-tax rate hike -- from 31% to 36% -- ...
IN ARCHITECTURE as in so much else, the 1980s was the decade of excess. It was an era of overbuilding -- in both senses of the word: Not only did developers put up too many office structures, but a...
PRINCETON, N.J. -- Joining the nationwide trend toward a multicultural curriculum, Princeton University is offering a course on American Indian religions for the first time this semester. But no on...
SO THEY STOPPED inviting you to the quarterly meeting, the one where they talk about everyone who isn't there. Then you got a new office, smaller than your last one and not on the floor where the b...
As college students get set to crack the books for the 1991-92 school year, their parents might like to know the best-kept secret about financial aid: it's often negotiable. That's one of the impor...
IN HIS LATE 40s, Larry Keough was on a roll. After ten years with Pitney Bowes, the office equipment manufacturer, he made over $100,000 a year, typically winning an annual bonus amounting to 35% o...
''The flash of the 1980s is gone. Corporations want speakers with substance and ethics, or at least speakers who are not tainted.'' So says Don Epstein, president of Greater Talent Network, a New Y...
YOU WOULDN'T GUESS it by looking at the monstrous tuition bills, but when parents drop off their kids on campus this month, they'll be driving through the gates of Shrinking U. Even the most presti...
Conservatives . . . hailed deregulation on free-market . . . grounds. A few laissez-faire stalwarts went further, enjoying the discomfort of established . . . business-government relations . . . Th...
Meeting deadlines is a small but important part of the college admissions process. Failure to file the right form at the right time could conceivably hurt your chances of getting financial aid or a...
MINNEAPOLIS -- A doctor who performed a blood-alcohol analysis of three Northwest Airlines pilots accused of flying while intoxicated testified . . . that the results, showing elevated levels, were...
We had definitely planned not to mention the $12 ticket on which your servant won $11,225 at Belmont this summer, since an earlier column (February 1, 1988) on an even heftier ($13,458) hit evoked ...
Soon after this article is printed, it will take up residence in the Nexis database and, apparently, become the only verbiage in disk memory whose author is unenthusiastic about diversity in educat...
THE DECADE that just wound down has tweaked awake an old ganglion most Americans prefer to leave at rest: class consciousness. Unprecedented numbers of people got rich, and many are eager to conver...
IF YOU WANT to become chief executive of a FORTUNE 500 company, where should you go to college? Judging by past performance, you'd better practice singing ''Boola Boola'' and tune up your Whiffenpo...
Just over a year ago, Wendy Kopp, 23, had a breakthrough idea for her senior public policy thesis at Princeton. Why not create a program that took graduates from top colleges who wanted to teach bu...
We have recently been hovering over some arresting figures about America's investment in education -- an investment widely viewed as inadequate. Asked in a recent Harris poll to name their top prio...
PRINCETON, N.J. -- Quick thinking by a . . . co-ed dampened the impact of a flag-burning by two fumbling Princeton University student protesters. Alexandra di Campi . . . snatched a flag Wednesday ...
Hey, remember the Free Speech Movement? That was the great crusade at Berkeley in 1964 -- the New Left uprising that initiated the great student revolution of the Sixties. It seems hard to credit t...
WHILE THEIR baby-boomer counterparts of the 1960s sat in at universities, + stood up for civil rights, and danced to the music of Sly and the Family Stone, the college class of 1989 was just learni...
WHY IS this scientist smiling? Because he may have won a small prize in the cold fusion lottery. No, not those $25 boxes of pennies -- the pennies are there to shield his instruments from any gamma...
Marketing is the M word that creates confusion in college admissions. But that's not the only problem. An atmosphere of half-truths and rumors has settled like a fog around the process, contributin...
; In a better world, we would not put our children through this. Every high school senior would know precisely what he or she wanted out of higher education; college admissions directors would hone...
Every year, colleges publish viewbooks teeming with four-color pictures of lawns, lakes and lolling students. Some facts are available too, such as home states of students and the number of volumes...
The late word from central New Jersey is that Princeton University is still not ready to put its Social Honor Code into practice, and yet the present writer has not removed the code's controversial...
To fight AIDS and control its financial burden we should do the following: Health care. Shift much of the treatment of AIDS patients out of expensive hospitals and into more cost-effective programs...
ONCE UPON A TIME, late in the dizzy bull-market party of the Roaring Twenties, the chairman of Princeton University's investment committee, a banker named Dean Mathey, decided that the level of sto...
Near midnight on a cool Tuesday evening in May, Lester Thurow, American economist, slumps before a dish of German chocolate ice cream at Steve's ice cream parlor in Lexington, Mass. Breakfast that ...
AS THE SERVICE SECTOR continues to outshine manufacturing, as tomorrow's technology replaces today's, U.S. cities are fast learning to adapt. Some have emerged from the process as veritable boomtow...
If you are the parent of a high school senior, what has come to be among life's most passionate quests begins in earnest this month. It is the search for the perfect college -- the one that you can...
As a child, it was obvious to Tim Forshey that his father, a now retired farmer and construction worker, would not be able to give him money for college. But Forshey's father taught him a trade tha...
The students at the little rural high school in Princeton, California, might not exactly fit the definition of struggling family farmers, but they collected $7,087 in federal farm . . . subsidies l...
On an evening last winter, six of us happened to be leaving my office at the same time. The three editors, all in their early 30s, were dressed normally in down parkas and sporting backpacks. But t...
AS COLLEGE STUDENTS head back to campus, they leave behind parents pained and baffled by the ever higher cost of higher learning. Though U.S. inflation has been hovering around 4% for more than thr...
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