Playboy’s Top Party School is the University of Miami

Playboy magazine recently announced the results of its party school rankings, and the University of Miami took top honors.
Playboy scored schools based on campus life, sports, sex, and academics, plus a “bikini” rating combining weather, gender ratio, and cheerleaders.
You’d be hard-pressed to find University of Miami undergrads who disagree with their school’s reputation for […]

UMich Med School Leaves Dogs Be

The med school at the University of Michigan, accustomed to using dogs in one of its courses, decided to switch to human models after an animal rights group got fussy. Though most med schools favor either models or cadavers, UMich’s Advanced Trauma and Life Support course thought dogs were the best bet.
Doctors operated […]

Psychiatric Disorders For All!

A new survey published by the Los Angeles Times suggests that young people aged 18-24 have staggeringly high rates of psychiatric disorders.
A total of 45.8% of college students and 47.7% of young adults not in college met the criteria for at least one psychiatric disorder. The most common disorder in college students was […]

Colleges Put the Squeeze on JuicyCampus

The hottest sororities. The druggiest frats. Confidential files from the campus health center. Think you’re going to get the dirt on students at George Washington University through scandal-seeking anonymous gossip site JuicyCampus? Turns out you’re more likely to get a re-posted Wikipedia entry about Latin’s linguistic origins (that is not a […]

BYU Student Sex-communicated

Forgive the ex-communication pun…we just so rarely have a chance to break one out. According to the AP, Brigham Young University is withholding the diploma of Chad Hardy, the young man who published the “Men on a Mission” calendar featuring sexy Mormon ex-missionaries sans shirts. Why would a college be so down on […]

Baylor Pays Students to Retake SAT

Last June, Baylor University offered prefrosh money to retake their SATs. Anyone who retested got $300 to the campus bookstore. Those whose scores jumped at least 50 points got $1000 in merit aid.
Wait, students who were already admitted were encouraged to take their admittance exam again? Confusion!
As usual, outrage ensued. People who oppose […]

Fightin’ Words About Frats in E-mail Hoax

When University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign students got an e-mail earlier this week bashing the Greek system, it probably didn’t come as much of a surprise–after all, what’s more of a slap in administrators’ faces than student-run, semi-autonomous campus groups that promote large doses of unauthorized fun? But while the sender was listed as “Chancellor […]

Iowa College Prez Takes an Active Interest in Student Activities

And when we say “student activities,” we mean the kind that involve mini-kegs of Coors Light. According to the Des Moines Register, Iowa Central Community College’s president, Robert Paxton, was partying with his son and some friends when someone on board snapped the above picture, which shows Paxton appearing to pour the beer down […]

Awkward Speech Alert

In the wake of John Edwards Affairgate 2008, Salem State College has announced that Edwards and his wife, Elizabeth, will stay on the schedule to speak during the college’s Speaker Series next month. A college spokesman explained:
“During our 26-year history, the series has experienced controversy, demonstrations, cancellations, reschedules, deaths of speakers and weather delays. […]

Ex-FBI Agent on the Case of an Anonymous Newspaper

It’s a real detective story! Step one: An anonymous, fake newspaper reported that Massachussetts’ Cambridge College was closing for financial reasons and criticized Chancellor Eileen Brown. Step two: An anonymous, real person sent the newspaper to lots of important dudes, including trustees, donors, and faculty. Step three: Cambridge College refuted the newspaper’s claims, which could […]

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