So College...

From the desk of Anderson Cooper:

CNN is reporting a study that claims that 75 percent of college students lack the ability to complete "real-life, complex tasks." I'm not quite sure who the Pew Charitable Trust is, but this is quite the claim, but in all honestly, who cares - these are tasks like understanding credit card offers. Who does that? You just sign up and watch your credit disappear and accumulate your David Spade-airline miles. [CNN]

And then there is the faculty. Always accused of being left-wing, radical cooks, now groups of conservative students who are sick of having their voices stifled on liberal campuses (campi just sounds cooler) are fighting back. UCLA's Bruin Alumni Association formed a list of the "Dirty Thirty" (Personally I think they should be focusing on Thirsty Thursday). This is a group of so-called "extreme liberals" on the campus where the Wizard of Westwood once held court. They are even going as far as offering $100 to a student who records a lecture of one of the suspected professors. That's one way to get kids to go to class (fire up those iPods front-rowers). Natch, UCLA's chancellor freaked out and is calling everyone in the press he knows saying the alumni group's actions are reprehensible. [CNN]