Cool article about male student (8)
I believe the answer is:
freshman
'student' is the definition.
(freshman is a kind of student)
'cool article about male' is the wordplay.
'cool article about' becomes 'fresh' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'male' becomes 'man' (man is a kind of male).
'fresh'+'man'='FRESHMAN'
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for freshman that I've seen before include "Student in his first year" , "New male student" , "He's a first-year college student" , "newly experiencing life in Jesus?" , "Young person" .)