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Trail Mix
Tweet Share on Facebook October 24, 2006 Comment- Students in a Web security class at the University of Southern California engaged in full-out hacking war for their midterm this semester, getting more points the more they damaged other students' servers, the Daily Trojan reports.
- An Arizona State professor who spent the summer as Beck's personal massage therapist while the artist toured Europe had a pretty good time, the Herald reports.
- Reports that a former Terrapin football player now playing for the San Diego Chargers might have used steroids as a pro are "shocking" to former teammates, the Diamondback reports.
- As more mountain lion sightings are reported in Nebraska, vets at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln are getting swamped with work, the Daily Nebraskan reports.
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Do Home Losses Have Health Consequences for SIU Football Coach?
Tweet Share on Facebook October 23, 2006 CommentJerry Kill, Southern Illinois University's head football coach, suffered a seizure this weekend, the morning after his team's 27-24 home loss to Western Kentucky University. It was Kill's third seizure since coming to coach SIU in 2001, the Daily Egyptian reports. His last seizure came in October 2005–which, before this Saturday night, was the last time the Salukis lost on home turf. The first also followed a home loss.
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Boozeless Saturday Night Happens, Fails to Be Lame
Tweet Share on Facebook October 23, 2006 CommentElaborate theme parties replaced the usual booze-fests at Syracuse University Saturday night, part of Alcohol Awareness Week. Students told the Daily Orange they enjoyed the parties, called "mocktails." But nobody explained whether it's a coincidence that the candy of choice at one party was Nerds.
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Wash. U. Freshmen Found "Frority"
Tweet Share on Facebook October 23, 2006 CommentA group of Washington University in St. Louis freshmen figured out a way to avoid the wait for spring rush. The students started their own Greek club, called a "frority" because it includes both men and women. Tau Sigma already has five "brothers" and 37 pledges this year, the Student Life reports.
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Search for Cartoon Life Moves Forward
Tweet Share on Facebook October 23, 2006 CommentOn Friday, a cardboard cutout of Marvin the Martian oversaw the unveiling of NASA's new collaboration with the University of Arizona, the Phoenix Mars Lander, reports the Daily Wildcat. The cutout was "a cardboard reminder of the signs of alien life scientists hope to find using the lander."
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Students, Faculty Sue Treasury Department to Get to Cuba
Tweet Share on Facebook October 23, 2006 CommentA group of students and faculty, including one Johns Hopkins professor and two Hopkins undergraduates, is suing the Department of the Treasury for its regulations on academic travel to Cuba. The regulations that went into effect two years ago make it more difficult for students and faculty to do academic exchange work, the plaintiffs told the Newsletter.
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GWU President Calls Out GW Student Body President on Gallaudet Stance
Tweet Share on Facebook October 23, 2006 CommentThe George Washington University student association president may be with them, but GWU's president thinks Gallaudet students should stop their protests, the president, Stephen Joel Trachtenberg, told the Daily Colonial. The student association president purchased blankets for protesters at the nearby school–a move Trachtenberg criticized as "getting involved in your next-door neighbor's agenda."
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Trail Mix:
Tweet Share on Facebook October 23, 2006 Comment- The University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee has shut down its student government after elected students were accused of embezzling $10,000, the Daily Cardinal reports.
- Wesleyan students are fighting back after the university scrubbed away a decade's worth of graffiti on a tunnel wall, the Argus reports. Their weapon: more graffiti.
- Supreme Court Justice John G. Roberts was among the all-star judges who ruled on a mock trial at the University of South Carolina Friday, the Daily Gamecock reports.
- Following rising publishing costs, the Tufts Daily will significantly reduce its page count, editors announced in an open letter today. The paper's financial situation left editors with no choice but to cut the national and international news sections, they wrote in the letter.
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And the Blingingest Man on Campus Award Goes to . . .
Tweet Share on Facebook October 20, 2006 Comment. . . Washington State University's Matt James, a sophomore mechanical engineering major. "While other WSU students were sleeping . . . Tuesday morning," reports the Daily Evergreen, "Matt James was linking the final rings on his suit of chain mail armor." Chain mail armor! And there are five photos to prove it! Runner-up: Vanderbilt Chancellor Gordon Gee, who invites students to join him in a competitive bow-tie-tying race today at noon.
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UC-Santa Cruz Students Pepper-sprayed at Protest
Tweet Share on Facebook October 20, 2006 CommentPolice used batons and pepper spray to defend themselves against student protesters Wednesday, a University of California-Santa Cruz spokesman tells the Daily Bruin. Students timed their protests to coincide with a California Board of Regents meeting on their campus. According to the San Francisco Chronicle, the protest organizers' beef with the regents includes high student fees and low minority retention rates.