Liberty University Wants You to Know They’re Swingers, Too

No, not that kind of swinging (that we know of). But for all the talk of how Virginia universities could swing the traditionally red state for Obama, Liberty University is pushing to register as many of its 11,000 students to vote in Virginia, in hopes of ensuring a McCain victory in November. Liberty […]

Native Americans’ Higher-Ed Comeback

No matter how much we talk up colleges’ diversity, there’s one ethnic group perpetually stuck with barely-a-single-digit representation among student bodies everywhere: Native Americans/American Indians/Alaskan Natives. (We weren’t sure which was the right-est, so we included all of ‘em.) But despite tiny relative percentages, these groups have more than doubled their numbers on campuses […]

Big Number Found at UCLA

And no, it doesn’t have anything to do with Rick Neuheisel’s helicopter budget (zing!?). According to the AP, researchers at UCLA (with the help of 75 computers) have discovered the largest prime number ever, which clocks in at an impressive 13 million digits. They’ll receive $100,000 from the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s Cooperative Computing […]

Obama and Biden Dispatch Their Better Halves for Florida Rally

With their husbands otherwise occupied with the whole presidential campaign thing, Michelle Obama and Jill Biden helped rally support for the Democratic White-House wannabes this weekend at Florida A&M University. Justyn Hintze reports:
“Michelle Obama and Jill Biden visited FAMU on Saturday to speak to students about the importance of registering to vote. […]

Thailand’s (Sort of) Free P.h.D.s

Whenever American students protest some sort of greater political or social cause, they often end up sitting in trees or hurtling pies at New York Times columnists. Things are a tad bit different though in Thailand. To show their disapproval with the country’s prime minister, Ratchadamneon University is selling Ph.D.’s in political reform […]

ASU Frat Stunt Gross AND Dangerous

What could POSSIBLY go wrong when an Arizona State University frat decided to vomit milk all over a busy interstate? We’ll let this adorable little girl in the above AP video explain.
(Source: Videogum)

Youth Vote Suppressed in CO

We all know what happens when the 18-24 set rouses itself from its Cartoon Network-induced stupor and gets to the voting booth. So, logically, a Republican county clerk in Colorado has been trying to scare college kids away from voting by saying their financial aid might be threatened. And it’s not an isolated incident, either.

Balink’s […]

Debate Disgruntles Drummers

Our nation is abuzz with anticipation about tomorrow’s scheduled Presidential Debate #1 at Ole Miss — the school says it’s on, Obama says he’ll be there, and, though the bailout is finalized, no one’s heard from McCain — but possibly the folks most affected by all this drama are the members of the school band.

“It’s […]

College Grads Follow the Money, Not the Dream

Sure, with a college degree in hand, you could hypothetically do anything you want. But student loan companies don’t take kindly to checks for the sum of Our Happiness and Self-Realization (trust me). That’s why, according to career-services site Experience, Inc., today’s college students are choosing more lucrative career paths over those that […]

Oregon Students Hang Obama in Effigy

Some Quaker students have done a very un-Friendly thing to the likeness of Barack Obama and the campus is up in arms. Despite the similarity of the names George Fox and Guy Fawkes (a British holiday that is all about torturing some dude in effigy), George Fox University students insist that they do not habitually […]

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