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Stealing Christmas Near SUNY Potsdam
Tweet Share on Facebook December 18, 2006 CommentOr at least, Christmas trees. The Brandon Show, which covers SUNY Potsdam, points out that four local college-age men have been charged with cutting a spruce tree right out of a nearby resident's yard; two other trees are missing. According to News 10 Now, the man planted the trees "as a buffer between SUNY Potsdam and his home."
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Latest Plot Twist Could Be the Last for Duke Lacrosse Scandal
Tweet Share on Facebook December 18, 2006 Comment (25)News that the case's alleged victim is pregnant could be the final plot twist in the Duke lacrosse scandal. Defense attorneys say they could be one motion away from erasing all charges against their clients, three former members of the university's lacrosse team charged with raping an exotic dancer they hired to perform at a party, the Chronicle reports. That would be the end to what one defendant's father calls a "nightmare."
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Oregon's New Mascot: Its Football Players
Tweet Share on Facebook December 18, 2006 Comment (94)When University of Oregon football players go to Las Vegas this week, they could be wearing new lime green helmets with silver flames. New uniforms are expected to match. Players who spoke to the Register-Guard made a valiant effort to be positive. "It's something we have to get used to," said one. "I'm speechless," said another. "I guess if a duck was yellow, that's what I'd envision it to look like," said another. Deadspin put it less diplomatically: "It Might Save Oregon Some Money," the site posited, "to just give everyone in the crowd LSD."
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Trail Mix
Tweet Share on Facebook December 18, 2006 Comment (19)–Students at Yale Law sued the Department of Homeland Security last week, charging racial discrimination against local Hispanic residents. It was the second time in the last month the law school has taken on the department, the Yale Daily News reports.
–College students are getting either lamer or smarter, at least in London. Undergrads at the city's Central St. Martin College successfully persuaded administrators to cancel a show by rock group Clinic this weekend, Aversion reports. The problem: The concert would conflict with their studies.
–The University of Massachusetts–Amherst plans to "take swift disciplinary action" after a riot broke out on campus following the football team's Division I-AA championship game loss Friday night, the school said in a statement.