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The Princeton Review announced its latest college rankings and ranked The Chronicle 9th in its top 10 list of college newspapers.
The Princeton Review ranks papers based on student interview answers to the question, “How popular is the newspaper?” An average of 325 students are interviewed per campus “during the 2009-10 and/or previous two school years,” according to The Princeton Review’s press release.
The Yale Daily News topped the list, but The Chronicle is one of only four newspapers at private universities that made the top 10. Other ACC newspapers, including The Daily Tar Heel at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and The Diamondback at the University of Maryland at College Park, also topped the list.
Along with asking the 122,000 total students about their school newspapers, students surveyed are asked to answer 79 other questions “about their school’s academics, administration, campus life, student body, and themselves,” the press release says. Students completed the surveys online. The press release does not say how students were selected to answer the survey questions.
The Princeton Review has come under fire for its rankings and methodologies in the past. In 2003, the American Medical Association called on the Princeton Review to end its Top 20 Party Schools list. In a 2003 CBS News story, AMA representatives called the list “misleading,” and claimed that it “gives college-bound students a skewed perception about ‘partying’ on campus.
At midnight, 25 applicants were offered columns—21 of them biweekly and 4 of them weekly—and four applicants were offered blogs at The Chronicle. This means that roughly 42 percent of columnist applicants were offered positions. In addition, a waitlist was created to anticipate any vacated spots in the future. We will be posting a breakdown of these columnists later this week.
If you haven’t guessed the topic of this post from its title, odds are you’re not a member of Duke’s class of 2012.
JuicyCampus.com is an online forum where college students can anonymously gossip about their peers (or, in the case of fraternities, about themselves). Students from universities across the country can start a topic for discussion, respond to emerginc topics, and rate whether the thread of discussion is “Juicy” or not. Up and running since Aug. 2007, the site has been a hotbed of ultra-democratic discussion, ranging from the mundane (Which Gay Guy Has the Biggest Penis?—0% Juicy) to the profound (Which Gay Guy Has the Smallest Penis?—100% Juicy).
Applications for columnists, cartoonists and bloggers for Spring 2009 were due before midnight yesterday (i.e. 34 minutes ago). The following are the preliminary raw numbers on the applications we’ve received:
—Total columnist applications received: 68
—Total cartoonist applications received: 4
—Monday Monday applications received: 10
A more accurate, and detailed, profile of the application pool will be posted soon.