Northwestern was ranked the 33rd best university in the world in the 2009 Times Higher Education-QS World University Rankings released yesterday. Some perspective: NU’s spot is 30 ahead of the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaigne and 26 spots behind the University of Chicago. [Chronicle of Higher Education/THE]
Musical theater audition didn’t go too well? There’s still hope: the Evanston Community Media Center is holding open auditions for “Evanston Idol” Saturday night. Singers, musicians, jugglers, poets, and ventriloquists all welcome. [Evanston Now]
Apparently, Harvard has come into such tough times that it decided this week to get rid of cookies at faculty meetings. Even chocolate chip and oatmeal raisin can’t survive a $13 billion endowment loss. [New York Times]
“Whatever” is the most annoying word or phrase used in conversation, according to a Marist College poll released Wednesday. The term of indifference took 47 percent of the vote, beating out other contenders like “it is the way it is” (11 percent) and “anyway” (7 percent). “You know” didn’t make the list? Whatever. [AP]
