Hasheem Thabeet Not Impressed by Harangody or Hansbrough

Went through ESPN the Magazine this weekend, and noticed that Connecticut center Hasheem Thabeet had this to say about Notre Dame’s Luke Harangody and UNC’s Tyler Hansbrough. “Nobody’s better than me, only more experienced. I played Luke Harangody and he was not tough. Tyler Hansbrough? I don’t see nothing.” Two years ago, he just was a gangly freshman from Tanzania.

ACT Scores Are Out Today! Check Your Score Here…

ACT assessment measures high school students’ general educational development and their capability to complete college-level work with the multiple-choice tests covering four skill areas: English, mathematics, reading, and science. Specifically, ACT states that its scores provide an indicator of “college readiness”, and that scores in each of the subtests correspond to skills in entry-level college courses in English, algebra, social science, humanities, and biology.

Ivy League Students Forced to Give Back to Community Due to Recession

While Ivies like Harvard, Princeton, and Yale are bleeding endowment money in the market downturn, their graduating seniors are facing a decimated job market upon graduation. What to do?

UF Cheerleader Arrested for Fake Police Report

A UF cheerleader was arrested Monday for filing a false police report, a misdemeanor, according to the University Police Department.

Lauren Beard, 20, was arrested after police discovered she was the author of several e-mails she had reported to be from someone stalking her, UPD Det. Amanda Spurlin said. According to the arrest report, Beard came to police on Feb. 18 to report threatening e-mails she received.
“They gave the impression someone could be following her or stalking her,” Spurlin said.

Police then began an investigation in which the e-mails were subpoenaed and were found to be sent from Beard’s computer. [UF Alligator]

Sox, Met Fans Irked About Grad Spot

For Red Sox fans, it’s your worst nightmare: Front and center in Yankee Stadium receiving your diploma. Is this hell? NYU Red Sox fans say yes – and it’s a reality.

It has been a month since NYU announced its decision to hold this year’s commencement at Yankee Stadium, home of what Red Sox and Mets fans consider the Evil Empire. Usually held in Washington Square Park, the ceremony was moved due to renovations.
[NYU News]

Suspended Lion charged with DUI

Police charged former Penn State tight end Andrew Quarless, 19, with driving under the influence of alcohol, a liquor law violation and a traffic violation today.

At 3 a.m. Sunday, a State College police officer stopped Quarless on College Avenue just east of Allen Street after he drove through a red light, according to court documents. About 30 minutes later, Quarless registered a blood-alcohol content of .084.
[PSU Collegian]

Sex Toy Shop Showcases Products On Campus

Buying a vibrator is like buying a blender—always make sure it has a variable speed setting.

Or so says Elise Schuster, BC ’04 and a representative for Babeland, a sex toy shop which put on a presentation last night in Columbia Universities John Jay lounge about sex toys and their use. Babeland serves as an educational source, holding lectures and workshops about how people can improve their sex lives. [Columbia Spector]

On Saturday night, as part of a pornography-themed day, Sex Week at Yale held a porn screening in the Law School auditorium. The featured pornography was a series of trailer-type clips, chosen by director Paul Thomas from among his own films.

The Sex Week team, however, didn’t preview all the footage Thomas chose. This is why, partway through the showing, graphic rape fantasies began to play onscreen. <Full Story>

Exchange Student Starved While in Egypt

Jonathan McCullum was in perfect health at 155 pounds when he left last summer to spend the school year as an exchange student in Egypt. But when he returned home to Maine just four months later, the 5-foot-9 teenager weighed a mere 97 pounds and was so weak that he struggled to carry his baggage or climb a flight of stairs. Doctors said McCullum was at serious risk for a heart attack.

McCullum says he was denied sufficient food while staying with a family of Coptic Christians, who fast for more than 200 days a year, a regimen unmatched by other Christians. But he does not view the experience as a culture clash. Rather, he said, it reflected mean and stingy treatment by his host family, whose broken English made it difficult to communicate. <Full Story>

The RIAA War on Ohio U. – one year later

As the recording industry’s nationwide legal battle against college music sharers enters its second year, Ohio University — once ground zero in that campaign — is no longer under fire.

Identified last February by the recording industry as the recipient of more music sharing complaints than any other university, OU shelled out more than $75,000 last summer for a device that scans data crisscrossing its network for copyrighted media. <Full Story>

Students at U of Nevada Turn to Pepper Spray, Stun Guns

One week after Brianna Denison disappeared, the culture at the University of Nevada, Reno changed. Groups of women walk together at night, instead of individually with iPods. Self-defense classes draw dozens of people. And, more contentiously, 22-year-old political science major Kimberly Ramirez isn’t the only one sporting a 950,000-volt Firefly stun gun and a can of pepper spray. <Full Story>