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One of the less noble results of internet technology is the prevalence of gossip on the net. Anonymous gossip sites have hit college campuses especially hard. Comment sites, many run by students, allow other students to make accusations than many times turn out to be salacious gossip. Students who are…

A college education is one of the few things a person is willing to nay for and not get. - William Lowe Bryan, president emeritus of Indiana University Braude’s Handbook of Stories, Jacob M. Braude, page 72

College boy: A boy who as ‘a sophomore lets his girl wear his fraternity pin and as a senior lets her use his hair curlers. Sourcebook of Humor, James C. Hefley, page 180

One father to another: “What’s your son taking to college?” “Every dime I’ve got,” was the reply. The Sourcebook of Humor, James C. Hefley, page 47

Isn’t it true? Sending a child to college is like buying a new car every year and never getting to drive it. - Bonnie Rorrer, quoted by Eddie Allgood in Danville, Virginia, Register and Bee Reader’s Digest, December 1993, page 162

It’s one of those highly ethical colleges that doesn’t believe in buying its football players. All it gives them is room, board, and $200 a week toward their textbooks. The Joke Teller’s Handbook, Robert Orben, page 46

It’s reassuring to see that colleges are putting the emphasis on education again. One school has gotten so strict, it won’t even give a football player his letter, unless he can tell which one it is. The Joke Teller’s Handbook, Robert Orben, page 46

A college freshman was having considerable difficulty. His counselor called him into his office and asked him, “Why are you at college?” The boy replied, “My mother says that I’m here to prepare to be president, my sister says that I’m here to get a wife, my brother says I’m here to play basketball,…

I know one football player who’s been in college for 13 years. It’s kind of a sad story. He can run and he can kick – but he can’t pass. The Joke Teller’s Handbook, Robert Orben, page 46

“I think my son is home from college,” one neighbor told another. “How do you know?” “Well, I haven’t heard from him in three weeks, and my car is missing.” Reader’s Digest, January 1996, page 81

"American universities are vast identity workshops. Places where for four years or less students sit under the trees with their shoes off and engage in the not so arduous task of finding out who they really are." Source: Sociologist Peter Berger, (1978)

Two can live as cheaply as one when the two are Mom and Dad and the one is a son in college. Sourcebook of Humor, James C. Hefley, page 47

Just in case you weren't feeling too old today, this will certainly change things. Each year the staff at Beloit College in Wisconsin puts together a list to try to give the faculty a sense of the mindset of this year's incoming freshmen. Here is this year's list: - The people who are starting college…

It isn't like Kris Wampler to keep quiet. If he has an opinion - and he often does - he likes to express it, whether through a letter to the editor of his hometown newspaper or by plastering political items on his dorm room door. So it hasn't been easy for Wampler, a 21-year-old UNC Chapel Hill junior…

Stay in college, get the knowledge, and stay there until you're through. If they can make penicillin out of moldy bread, they can sure make something out of you. -- Muhammad Ali to a young man asking advice.

\\ Posted on Aug 7, 2007 | by Staff NASHVILLE, Tenn. (BP)--A new study from LifeWay Research reveals that more than two-thirds of young adults who attend a Protestant church for at least a year in high school will stop attending church regularly for at least a year between the ages of 18 and 22. LifeWay…