Staff Blog
Student Union 34, Philly.com’s new college site
Wednesday, July 1st, 2009 at 3:05 pm
posted by Neal Santos
The Inquirer has just launched Student Union 34, so named due to the 34 colleges in the Philadelphia area:
Welcome to Student Union 34, a cooperative Web experiment from students at Philadelphia-area colleges and universities and The Inquirer. We're excited give a student view of the city and its vibrant campuses, and to provide students a platform for their blogging, photos, videos and journalism work.
Things that are cool:
- A flash map showing all 34 schools.
- One-stop shop for all college news.
- Another place for journalism students to gripe, aside from their respective student newspapers.
Meh:
- They cover things you probably already know about the city.
- Another place for journalism students to gripe, aside from their respective student newspapers.
College students eat Ramen noodles?!?
[...] a cool Flash map tracking the region’s 34 four-year institutions (depicted above), as the CityPaper staff blog suggested, there isn’t a great deal of information being created that would interest outsiders, but the [...]