OZY Daily Dose

Best college town? Best dining hall? Best job prospects? Check, check and check. These are the types of rankings that Dana Bolger, and most prospective female college students, pore over when deciding where to apply to school. But there's one question they probably didn't consider: How the institution would treat them if they experienced sexual assault.If Dana had wanted a resource that consolidated women-specific data like this, she would've been out of luck.

I heard the repeated rap on the steel gate that barricaded our door. Although I was not asleep, it was past midnight, and I wondered who it could be. My mom's bedroom window was closest to the gate, and, since she's a light sleeper, it woke her up."Oi, Rotimi, it's Micky." I heard my best friend whisper in his British accent. He had schooled in England since he was 7. I opened up."Micky J! Ki lo n shele!" I greeted him in our native Yoruba.

When Marcus Butler told his parents of his plan to devote himself to his YouTube channel, he was earning just “tens of pounds.” That was eight years ago, when the excited 18-year-old had just returned from VidCon, the annual online video extravaganza in Los Angeles, where he met vloggers who had bought houses with their earnings. “There was something material that showed there was potential in it,” he says. Having traveled to L.A.

Isaac MizrahiBefore Isaac Mizrahi was a fashion powerhouse, before he was a judge on Project Runway: All Stars, he was a schoolboy in Brooklyn raised by parents he describes as both "religious religious" and "clutchy clutchy." It was in this backdrop that Mizrahi first started to feel out his own identity and explore New York's thriving '70s club scene.

Welcome to The Professionals, an eight-part video series that connects you to the hearts, minds and anything-but-ordinary days of the people who run things, do things and make things GO.

Where do you go for inspiration? And where do you go to avoid it?In the good ol' days before the internet, inspiration - at least in the form of motivational quotes and self-help wisdom - was reassuringly quarantined.

Hundreds of video game consoles illuminate flat screen televisions in the Allied Esports Arena inside the Luxor Hotel & Casino. Past the Las Vegas stadium's seating, perched up above the stage is the suite-level owner's box, where Allied founder Jud Hannigan entertains guests. And there, wrapped behind and alongside the box is a flashing neon-lit tunnel where the players - yes, athletes - high-five VIPs as entrance music ushers them onto the stage.

I played the incoming answering machine message back, again."Eugene, man ... it's Karl. ... I've been stabbed."Then the line went dead. Nothing but the time stamp and that he had called from San Francisco. Karl Umrigar, a 20-something son of a Persian father and a British mother, had a whole passel of problems that while individually bedeviling, were collectively almost impossible to handle.

With a thunderous clap, the huddle breaks and No. 84 in black and gold saunters over to the right side of the offensive formation. Cleveland rookie cornerback Denzel Ward sees Pittsburgh receivers JuJu Smith-Schuster in the slot to the left and James Washington on the boundary.It's easy to imagine how the Sept. 9 matchup will play out. Ward eyes up Antonio Brown, the toughest cover in the league with feet so light they would make Hermes jealous and hands that Elmer's Glue may one day study.

Roxane Gay's started-from-the-bottom story - which made it into an episode of OZY's new series, Breaking Big - is an inspiration for many who might think they don't have the pedigree to be a successful author. At OZY Fest recently, Gay talked about her next book and how she's sick of getting well-meaning emails.