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Iraq vs. Krispy Kreme: Over the Weekend, a Fight for Students' Attention
Tweet Share on Facebook January 29, 2007 Comment (1)Which thing do college students love more: Krispy Kreme doughnuts or antiwar protests? It was a tough call Saturday, as some students threw themselves into the Third Annual Krispy Kreme Challenge while others joined the tens of thousands on the National Mall advocating a swift U.S. pullout from Iraq. We can't find any exact figures on the number of students who protested the war, but was it more than 1,341? That's the number of participants in the Krispy Kreme Challenge, a very serious contest in which students from North Carolina State University run 2 miles, then eat a dozen doughnuts, then run 2 more miles. Proceeds from the race go to the North Carolina Children's Hospital, though why anyone would choose to endorse the inevitable upchucking is still beyond us. "I can't explain it except you're tremendously committed to doughnuts," says one man, according to a cool audio slide show on the Technician's website.
As for the roundup of college student participation in the national day of war protest:
- Penn State students dressed up in orange, donned black hoods, and chained their legs together to protest unfair detainee treatment, the Collegian reports.
- "Radical Cheerleaders" were among the American University students who traveled the (admittedly very short) distance to the Mall Saturday, the Eagle reports.
- Some George Washington University students were probably also there, according to this kind of unclear Hatchet story.
- Boston University activists were disappointed with the student turnout on their bus to D.C., the Daily Free Press reported Friday. They think winter break may have gotten in the way.
- Four Columbia University student groups organized a convoy of three buses to Washington, the Spectator reports.
Photo: Lana Limón, Columbia Daily Spectator
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At ASU, Cops Make the Case for Tasers
Tweet Share on Facebook January 29, 2007 CommentCops at Arizona State University made the case for Taser guns in an interview with the State Press: "The Taser is great for our policemen to have," a university police commander says. "It helps to save the lives of both our officers and the people who get hit with it, because without the Taser, the officers may have had to use their firearms or another type of force instead."
Related: UCLA Taser protests.
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How Did "Language That Could Be Perceived as...Homophobic" Wind Up in Georgetown's Ticket Booklet?
Tweet Share on Facebook January 29, 2007 CommentA photo in the Georgetown University men's basketball season ticket package includes what looks like a gay slur. Making the matter worse is the fact that the photo in question is printed right on the ticket package's cover. Georgetown's athletic director apologized last week for the error, which he said he didn't notice until someone else pointed it out, the Georgetown Voice reports. The photo, taken during a men's basketball game last year, shows a hot-pink sign aimed at former Duke star J.J. Reddick, calling him "RIDICULOUSLY GAY JJ."
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Nude Parties? So Passé. Try 1-Degree-Below-Zero Naked Runs
Tweet Share on Facebook January 29, 2007 Comment (11)The New York Times seemed to love its discovery earlier this month of a new trend at Yale University: naked parties. Dancing around in just your underwear or less is bold, sure, but only if you've never met the Northwestern University men's track team, 16 members of which stripped and ran 5 kilometers--and all in weather 1 degree below zero with windchill. The Daily Northwestern reports that one runner briefly lost his cover and went kind-of commando in the Dare to Bare race Sunday.
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Dating Advice From San Diego State: First Things First, Stop Being Psychotic!
Tweet Share on Facebook January 29, 2007 Comment (1)"If you are psychotic," an anonymous Daily Aztec columnist advises, "there's nothing you can do to overcompensate for that." The rest of the article appears to be a series of lessons in how not to be psychotic.
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Trail Mix
Tweet Share on Facebook January 29, 2007 Comment- Alumni giving seems to be down at Duke University following the lacrosse scandal, the Duke Chronicle reports.
- New York University's Washington Square News has a profile on a 2004 grad who's now Miss New York. She'll participate in the Miss America pageant tonight.
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At the University of Georgia, Jimmy Carter Reveals How He Persuaded Anwar Sadat to Stay at Camp David
Tweet Share on Facebook January 26, 2007 CommentAt the Carter Conference, the former president disclosed a never-told-before story about his efforts to keep Anwar Sadat at Camp David after the Egyptian leader threatened to walk out of the 1978 peace talks with Israel at the White House retreat in Camp David.
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Racially Insensitive Photos on Facebook: Not a Good Idea
Tweet Share on Facebook January 26, 2007 CommentA Martin Luther King Jr. Day party thrown by students at Tarleton State University was the subject of a campuswide meeting Wednesday, the AP reports. The meeting was held after students discovered photos of the party on Facebook.com. The photos, which have since been taken off Facebook, play on racial stereotypes. In one, a white woman--wearing a red-and-white-checkered apron and a white cloth wrapped around her head--holds a bottle wrapped in a paper bag in one hand and a bottle of Aunt Jemima syrup in the other. Another photo shows a white man with fake dreadlocks. Others feature boxes of Kentucky Fried Chicken. The incident follows a trend of Internet-born racial incidents, which shook up campuses and communities across the country last year.
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Three Words on a Facebook Wall Almost Cost Berkeley Student Her Council Post
Tweet Share on Facebook January 26, 2007 CommentVoting to confirm a senior member of the University of California-Berkeley's student governing body ended late last night only after "substantial and heated debate," the Daily Californian reports. Three words were at the center of the debate: "I love you," written by the senior as a message beneath a political cartoon posted on Facebook.com. The cartoon "pictured numerous stick figures urinating on a copy of the [student council] constitution," the Californian reports. At the end of the debate, the senior was confirmed anyway.
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Mexican Sister School's Newspaper Ban Makes TCU Think About Cutting Ties
Tweet Share on Facebook January 26, 2007 Comment (1)Allegations that their sister school in Mexico censored its student newspaper have led Texas Christian University officials to re-examine their "entire relationship" with the school, Mexico's la Universidad de las Americas, the Daily Skiff reports. UDLA students built La Catarina in 2000 after meeting with Daily Skiff editors in Texas and Mexico to learn how to operate an independent press. Then, this year, editors published cartoons making fun of the university's chancellor and soon after found the paper had been shut down by administrators. The closure is "proof of the fragility and, many times, the false freedom of expression in Mexico," one student said. UDLA administrators deny censorship and insist the closure is not permanent. But TCU administrators don't seem to be convinced. TCU Provost Nowell Donovan said the incident "greatly perturbed" TCU officials. "Unjust censorship is not part of the ethos of TCU, nor should it be of any university," he wrote.
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