college rag

The Washington Squrae News called out New York University on misleading crime statistics and got the police to redo their reports, SaferCampus.com reports.
NYU had only counted three residence halls as “on campus,” skewing the on-campus crime numbers lower.

Editorialiste

The Editorialiste blog has a response to Alana Taylor’s kvetch last week on NYU’s “revamped” journalism school.
The respone, the Editorialiste writes, was overwhelmingly negative. “You are wrong,” “back to the NY Times,” “learn how to write news” and “take some classes” were among the responses, criticizing her for being critical and generally missing her point [...]

In response to declining revenues, the Washington Square News — the student newspaper of New York University — has cut the amount of money its editors make and has begun running an advertisement on the front page daily, editor-in-chief Adam Playford writes.
Still, the paper is doing better than the professional media industry, Playford says. “So [...]