The big schools may be scaling back construction and hiring, but some of the little ones are struggling to get by, period. Morris Brown College paid off a chunk of its water bill last week only after its students approached passing cars and boarded city buses for donations.
My other piece in this week's issue is on a Georgia state senator's proposal to merge the state's historically black colleges with nearby white schools.
I have a piece in this week's issue on whether the hug is replacing the handshake. It's pegged, in part, to the fact that we have a man-hugger in the White House. I only wish the diagram of the ass-out hug (with apologies to Vince Vaughn) had made it online...
Parents in Virginia are winning their campaign to change the benchmark for A's to 90 instead of 94.
