Academic

Lists

By Tim Zinnecker

Lists, lists, lists.  Everywhere I turn I seem to find another list.  Here are five that have caught my eye in recent days.

Best Colleges:   According to the folks at Forbes, the ten "best" colleges in America are:

1. U.S. Military Academy

2. Princeton

3. California Institute of Technology

4. Williams College

5. Harvard

6. Wellesley

7. U.S. Air Force Academy

8. Amherst

9. Yale

10. Stanford

Full list here.

Road Rage.  According to this survey, the cities with the most and the least "road rage" (perhaps rephrased as "least courteous drivers" and "most courteous drivers") are:

Most road rage (least courteous):

New York, Dallas / Ft. Worth, Detroit, Atlanta, Twin Cities

Least road rage (most courteous):

Portland (Oregon), Cleveland, Baltimore, Sacramento, Pittsburgh

Personal Income.  From the feds in D.C. (the Commerce Department's Bureau of Economic Analysis), comes this report titled "Personal Income and Per Capita Personal Income by Metropolitan Area, 2006-2008."  According to the report, the ten metropolitan areas with the highest "per capita personal income" (personal income of residents of area divided by resident population of area)  in 2008 were:

1. Bridgeport / Stamford /  Norwalk

2. Naples / Marco Island (FL)

3. San Francisco / Oakland / Fremont

4. Sebastian/ Vero Beach (FL)

5. San Jose / Sunnyvale / Santa Clara

6. Midland, TX

7. Washington, DC / Arlington / Alexandria

8. Casper, Wyoming (I thought this was a "ghost" town -- haha!)

9. Boston / Cambridge/ Quincy

10. New York / Northern New Jersey / Long Island

Supreme Court Nominees and Senate Confirmations.   Last Thursday the Senate confirmed Sonia Sotomayor's nomination to the United States Supreme Court by a vote of 68-31.  Kristina Moore, over at ScotusBlog, reminds us of the Senate votes for Justice Sotomayor's eight new colleagues and the Justice she is replacing.   I list the votes from "high" to "low."  Most readers will have no trouble matching them with the nominee.  But if you need help, look here. 

98-0

98-0

97-0

96-3

90-9

87-9

78-22

58 ? 42

52-48

College Football.   USA Today has issued its preseason Top 25 college football poll, with these programs as the top ten:

1. Florida

2. Texas

3. Oklahoma

4. USC

5. Alabama

6. Ohio State (or is it THE Ohio State?)

7. Virginia Tech

8. Penn State

9. LSU

10. Mississippi

Those of us who are submitting articles to law reviews at this time of year and who don't wish to limit ourselves to traditional journal rankings as our submissions roadmap may wish to consult the entire poll here as an alternative guide on placement strategy.  Perhaps a reader will tell me how past negotiations have gone with student editors at Auburn and TCU.

Full post as published by The Faculty Lounge on August 11, 2009 (boomark / email).