Trail Mix

*A camel costume + decent word of mouth = a record number of New York University students going on an Israeli Birthright trip this year, according to the Washington Square News.

*From the Pitt News, the worst way to spend a surplus $60,000: Buy 10 huge panther statues to be painted by University of Pittsburgh student groups, then botch the delivery and distribution. Watch school spirit die before it ever had a chance to live.

*The University of Oregon is taking on a beast of its own and is challenging a Recording Industry Association of America subpoena asking for the names of 17 school network users who may have shared copyrighted music, the Oregon Daily Emerald reports.