The Biggest Pranks in Geek History

Harvard and Yale’s annual gridiron face-off on Nov. 22 is a big deal for more than one set of storied college rivals. In the decades-old prank-off between archrivals MIT and Caltech, disrupting “the Game” has long been a particular point of pride. It’s not their only pranking outlet, of course: tech students have been wreaking havoc wherever they can since at least 1875. [Time]

Girls Just Being Girls

Don’t get me wrong ladies, we guys probably get worse than this.  However, since this site is catered to males, and I really can do whatever the hell I want on here, survey says?  Yeah, post pictures of drunk chicks making guys wish they were in college again, thus starting off their weeks with a complete distaste for the corporate drudgery that is the real world. It’s not like this is Girls Gone Wild or PlayboyU for Christ’s sake.  Just enjoy these 20 photos of girls just being girls. [Uncoached]

Rolle Wins Rhodes Scholarship

Florida State safety Myron Rolle was awarded a Rhodes scholarship Saturday. He is the first major-college football player of his generation to win what is considered the world’s most prestigious postgraduate academic scholarship. He became the most prominent student-athlete to win the award since Bill Bradley at Princeton in 1965. [NY Times]

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?

Dr. Sir Paul McCartney Graduates From Yale, Pictures

You may have seen a link to this story in yesterday’s Daily Links, but there are new pictures. SI Campus Clicks said it best, “As if being a member of The Beatles wasn’t enough, Sir Paul McCartney is now Dr. Sir Paul McCartney after receiving an honorary doctor of music degree from Yale University on Monday.”

At the ripe old age of 65, Paul “the cute one” McCartney, still drives the girls bonkers. Good chance the girl in the back never washes her hand again. [SI Campus Clicks]

Harvard Law Prof Argues Marijuana Trial

Most marijuana users who get caught smoking a joint summarily pay a fine, but when an undercover police officer detained Richard E. Cusick and R. Keith Stroup, the two chose instead to challenge the constitutionality of Massachusetts laws banning marijuana for the first time in 30 years.

Arrested for sharing a marijuana cigarette at the annual Boston Freedom Rally in September, Cusick and Stroup turned to Harvard Law School professor Charles R. Nesson (class of 1960) for legal counsel. Nesson and his clients acknowledged that they had used the illegal drug, and decided upon an unusual defense: they argued that the statute outlawing marijuana in Massachusetts has no “rational basis,” and that the jury has the power of jury nullification, or ruling a defendant innocent while recognizing that he or she had violated a law. [The Harvard Crimson]

Students Fail — and Professor Loses Job

Who is to blame when students fail? If many students fail—a majority even—does that demonstrate faculty incompetence, or could it point to a problem with standards?

These are the questions at the center of a dispute that cost Steven D. Aird his job teaching biology at Norfolk State University. Today is his last day of work, but on his way out, he has started to tell his story — one that he suggests points to large educational problems at the university and in society. [Inside Highered]

Stewie Griffin Haunts My Dreams

Worst Low Budget TV Commerical Ever!

Alanis Morissette Got Fat

The Complete Idiot

Kim Kardashian’s Big A– at the Hampton’s – Pics

Super Sweet Funeral

Guys Hump The Darndest Things

Slow Motion Punches

21 Tattoos of Famous Faces

Hot Chick Streaking Soccer Game

Heidi Klum In A Bikini

Top 20 Prank Calls

Tennis Star Agrees to do Playboy

Yale Gives Paul McCartney An Honorary Degree

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>

As of 3:00PM, 2/22/08:

Houston Grad
Azerbaijan State Oil Academy
Yale
Syracuse
Texas @ Austin
Texas @ Dallas Grad
Rollins Grad
Kent St. Grad #1
Rice Grad #1
Hofstra Grad
Oklahoma St. Grad #1
Lehigh
Texas @ Dallas Undergrad
Brown
Tulane
Alberta
Rice Grad #2
Rollins Undergrad
Penn St. Grad #2
Hofstra Undergrad
Oklahoma St. Grad #2
Monmouth
Columbia Grad #1
Columbia Grad #2
Penn St. Grad #1
Quinnipiac
Houston Undergrad
Kent St. Grad #2
George Washington