Incubus Goes Back to College

Incubus lead singer Brandon Boyd and guitarist Mike Einziger have decided to go back to college. The band has taken a yearlong break, and Boyd has decided to enroll at a Los Angeles-area art school, while Einziger is going to Harvard.

“[I'm going] back to school, to prove to Dad that I’m not a fool,” says Boyd to People. “I never really had the time in the past 12 years,” he says. “I actually left the beginnings of art school to go on tour.”

Einziger, on the other hand, wants a challenge. “It will be the first time in my whole life that I’ve ever gone to school because I wanted to go. I’ll appreciate it a lot more than I ever did as a kid.” [Gravy and Biscuts]

Don’t Drink And Drive, Then Post On Facebook

Two weeks after Joshua Lipton was charged in a drunken driving crash that seriously injured a woman, the 20-year-old college junior attended a Halloween party dressed as a prisoner. Pictures from the party showed him in a black-and-white striped shirt and an orange jumpsuit labeled “Jail Bird.”

In the age of the Internet, it might not be hard to guess what happened to those pictures: Someone posted them on the social networking site Facebook. And that offered remarkable evidence for Jay Sullivan, the prosecutor handling Lipton’s drunken-driving case.

Sullivan used the pictures to paint Lipton as an unrepentant partier who lived it up while his victim recovered in the hospital. A judge agreed, calling the pictures depraved when sentencing Lipton to two years in prison. [MSNBC]

College Students Offer Sex For Laundry, Investment

Don’t believe it? Researchers at the University of Michigan School of Public Health say the practice is so prevalent that even affluent college students who don’t need resources will still attempt to trade sexual currency for provisions.

And they add, don’t be surprised: the exchange of resources for sex has been an activity many species, including humans, have taken part in since the beginning of time. [Boinkology]