Since the 1980s, when it became commonplace to rank our schools, there have been deep disagreements about the relative value and validity of such endeavors. Though the most common example is college rankings—best exemplified by the infamous U.S.

Last year, in all of the election fervor, you might have noticed a new acronym being thrown around the Internet if you were as connected to news sources and blogs as I was. The letters “MSM,” which stand for “Mainstream Media,” would appear like a golden siren, alerting me to the political orientation (not to [...]

Students can tell their friends studying in Division I athletic powerhouses such as Stanford, Duke and Harvard that Washington University is superior athletically and academically. In fact, every school that you cheered for during March Madness and the BCS Bowl Games was ranked below Wash. U.