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News that Fox's breakout hit Glee would go on hiatus after Dec. 9 hit viewers hard. Fans - or "Gleeks" in show parlance - flooded the Twittersphere with support for the sitcom, which follows a bunch of lovable misfits who find in their high school glee club both a home and ample opportunities to reprise mega-songs from stars like Madonna and Neil Diamond. Many Gleeks started sharing an online petition opposing the planned four-month interregnum. "I rearranged all of my classes so that I can watch Glee," writes distraught signatory Lisa Wright, a college freshman in Illinois...
...cappella groups as a student at the University of California, Berkeley, and now gets together with half a dozen or so Silicon Valley buddies every week to sing. Meanwhile, over in Michigan, it took just one episode to prompt Cynthia D'Amour, 43, to embrace her high school-choir history by joining the Ann Arbor Civic Chorus. "Seeing Glee was like, 'Oh my God, I really need to reactivate that piece of me,' " she says. (A busy travel schedule for her consulting job has since forced her to take a hiatus of her own.) (See Glee...
...Marty Nemko, a career and education expert who has taught at U.C. Berkeley's Graduate School of Education, contends that the overflow in degree holders is the result of many weaker students attending colleges when other options may have served them better. "There is tremendous pressure to push kids through," he says, adding that as a result, too many students who aren't skilled become degree holders, promoting a perception among employers that higher education doesn't work. "That piece of paper no longer means very much, and employers know that," says Nemko. "Everybody...
...best back-to-school gadgets...
Three of the most recent Ivygate posts feature Harvard (one relishes a rather unflattering portrayal of Harvard in a fake advertisement,another mocks an incident involving poisoned coffee at the Harvard Medical School, and the third makes it clear that an act of arson by a Harvard grad is very much out of character with an Ivy League education). Clearly, Harvard alums and events are crucial to the blog's content. But how big a deal is the Ivygate dry spell for Harvard students...