Two high school juniors in New Jersey have raised more than $63,000 to help Rutgers University students struck by sudden financial hardships.

Alex Sonageri and Adam Schwartz placed jars in supermarkets and used a PowerPoint presentation to solicit donations from about 15 businesses for the scholarship. Four students so far will receive a semester’s worth of tuition. They include a woman who nearly withdrew because of the cost of a 52-week chemotherapy treatment for a cancerous cyst.

The 17-year-olds, who attend North Highlands Regional High School in Allendale, hope to raise $100,000 so they can endow the fund. The boys aren’t sure where they’d like to go to college, but they’re not ruling out Rutgers.

Read all about their efforts to raise private scholarship funding!

As you might have guessed, we here at COED love hot teacher sex offenders. And this is one of the hottest! Drama teacher Lisa Glide, 35, from Old Bridge High School in Middlesex County, NJ has been arrested on second-degree charges of sexual assault and child endangerment for allegedly having sex with a 17-year-old male student.

The lucky bastard “victim” was a senior when the relationship reportedly began last February and has since graduated. Each charge carries with it the possibility of a 10-year sentence.

OK…WTF? Hey authorities, he’s a little hint – if the “victim” is older than 13, he is not really a victim. He’s the luckiest dude at school – especially when the supposed “sex offender” looks like she just walked off the Cowboys cheerleading squad.

I understand that this can’t be allowed and that it violates all types of standards, laws, and ethics and it’s your job to investigate and prosecute cases like this. But you know what, sometimes laws are f**king stupid.  (more…)

If ever there was a match made in heaven, it is Sean Williams and the New York Knicks.

Sean Williams is a second year power forward/center for the New Jersey Nets and is mired on the bench in frustration and anger.  Newsday reported that the giant piece of oak anchoring Williams’ nameplate was ripped clean off of his locker and found leaning against the wall after Wednesday’s game.  Seems like the dynamic shot blocker from Boston College has had enough of being banished to the bench, having only played 24 minutes in the team’s first seven games this season.

Here is where the Knicks come into play.  The Knicks have been one of the worst shot blocking teams in the league over the past couple of seasons.  They desperately need a player who can bring interior presence and shot-blocking off of help defense.  Many scouts that watched Williams perform during pre-Draft workouts  in Houston last summer believe that he has the tools to become the next Amare Stoudemire.  So why not match the next potential Amare with Amare’s most influential coach? (more…)

Wow…just, wow. We already knew guidos were a societal stain from their mating rituals, but we had no idea it could be this bad and widespread. It’s like they pump human growth hormone directly into the Jersey water supply, and then let them breed. In this one, you get to see their women fight. It’s so good bad, it almost brings you to tears…

Which starting pitchers, currently in the majors or recently retired, are shoe-ins for induction into the baseball Hall of Fame?

It’s a debate myself and my friends had over a few beers last night that quickly got heated. Everyone has loyalty to their hometown teams. Being from Boston I lobbied hard for Curt Schilling while the Jersey crew was pushing for Andy Pettitte.

So to settle this thing once and for all, we decided to analyze the stats to give you a definitive list of starting pitchers who are of Hall of Fame caliber, listed from most deserving on top to least deserving.

Check out Future Hall of Fame pitchers after the jump! (more…)

You probably know Artie Lange from bit parts on the Howard Stern Show, ArtieLangeDeathWatch.com, or in movies like Old School and Beer League. COED caught up with Artie (for five minutes) and discussed life, college and alcohol.

COED: You went to Seton Hall University. How did that happen?
Artie Lange: I went there from September 1985 to September 1985 [Editor's note: No, that's not a typo]. I barely got out of high school, but I was good at baseball, and combined with the fact that my uncle knew a priest with some pull, so I ended up sneaking in [to Seton Hall].

COED:Why should anyone rent your movie Beer League?
AL: Me and the kid who wrote it (Frank Sabastiano) are both from New Jersey, and play in a softball league. We always wanted to do our own f—in’ rated-R softball movie. We got together five years ago in L.A., and said let’s just tell our craziest softball stories and put them index cards and try to structure it like a film. The whole team is alcoholics. And in the film, I live with my mom. Oh, and there’s a great bachelor party scene with tits and ass.

COED: Give us a drink you could recommend to college students.
AL: It’s very simple: Jack Daniel’s with water and a lot of ice. Let’s call it “The Artie.” I’ve heard some people call it that before, but let’s make it official.

Senate Passes GI Bill Education Expansion Legislation

The U.S. Senate overwhelmingly passed an expansion to the GI Bill last week that aims to extend educational benefits to soldiers who have served more than three years in Iraq or Afghanistan.

The GI Bill, formally known as The Servicemen’s Readjustment Act of 1944, originally eased the cost of education for veterans returning home after World War II. Legislators say the benefits aren’t keeping pace with today’s expenses and sought to make changes.

Extending benefits could have greater or lesser impact on various campuses across the country, according to affiliates’ coverage. [Uwire]

Jen Wang of Short Hills, New Jersey, took her first SAT when she was in sixth grade, long before she would start filling out college applications.

“My family thought it was very important for me to do well on this test, and I basically obtained nearly every SAT study guide out there by the time I was a junior in high school,” she said. “For Christmas one year, I received an electronic device that allowed me to practice the SAT’s ‘on-the-go.’ “

After all that preparation, she ended up attending a school that has made the SAT Reasoning Test, generally known as the SAT, the most widely used college admissions exam in the United States, optional.

Her school, Connecticut College, is one of a growing number of colleges and universities that are making the SAT optional in the admissions process. In May, two highly selective schools — Smith College in Massachusetts and Wake Forest University in North Carolina — decided to drop the SAT and ACT, which some students take as an alternative to the SAT, as requirements for admission. [CNN]

For those of you who have not seen this classic, enjoy:

Just this morning I was thinking to myself, “Wouldn’t it be great if another 80s icon ran for governor?” Well, guess what? Today, my ultimate wish has came true: Jon Bon Jovi is planning to run for governor of New Jersey.

He’s a cowboy – on a steel horse he rides – but does Jon Bon Jovi have what it takes to wrassle up a worthwhile campaign?

If I take his hand will I make it, as he swore to me years before?

Will he give politics a bad name?

If I know I’m gonna live in his reign, should I just keep the faith?

Does it even matter, considering his lifelong fans will vote for him regardless? (more…)

I hate New Jersey.

I live in NYC and go through great lengths daily to avoid stepping foot in the Garbage State. So when I found out Van Halen was performing live with DLR at the Continental Airlines Arena IZOD Center (what a wack name for a venue) I was completely torn. For one night I would have to put my Jersey Issues aside to see the greatest F-ing rock band of all time.

What WAS the greatest f-ing rock band of all time might be a bit more accurate. Yeah, it was great to see a big rock show in an big arena – big sound, big solos, big screen. Even cooler was to see Diamond Dave back in the front alongside Eddie Van Halen, having what seemed to be a pretty damn good time. But pound for pound, the whole experience was pretty bitter sweet.

On the surface, the show looked and felt like classic Van Halen, but after my initial burst of awe settled I could not help but feel a bit depressed. Gone were the trademark walls ‘o Marshall stacked cabinets only to be replaced by Eddie’s own signature EVH brand. Also absent from most of the show was the red and white Frankenstrat guitar that was so identifiably VH. At times I was not sure if I was watching a rock show or a concert-length advertisement. A humbling experience, to say the least.

Read the rest of the article and check out VIDEO from the show after the jump. (more…)