Sexless Beds at Harvard

Anyone who has attempted to spend a night sharing another person’s bed at Harvard has encountered one major obstacle. No, it’s not Harvard’s famed lack of a vibrant social scene or a dearth of viable partners—not only these, anyway—but rather a lack of space in the beds themselves. <The Crimson>

U of Wisconsin Adopts a New Text Message Alert System

An emergency alert e-mail takes almost 20 minutes to reach the thousands of UW-Madison students and faculty. A text message could shorten that to a few. Factor in police investigation and the decision-making process to employ a mass alert, and it could be nearing a half hour before students know about a gunshot or toxic gas leak, according to Police Chief Susan Riseling. <The Cardinal>

Google Puts Chapel Hill Streets on View

Jennifer Anderson didn’t expect to see her home pictured online. But with the Google’s expansion of Street View to Chapel Hill, Anderson’s home and car now can be viewed by anyone.

It’s kind of creepy,” Anderson said. “I saw my car outside my condo, and I didn’t like it.” <The Daily Tarheel>

State Patty’s Causes Rise in Crime at PSU

Although its student organizers stressed a day of responsible drinking, the second incarnation of State Patty’s Day saw about 45 arrests by State College police between 8 a.m. Saturday and 8 a.m. yesterday. The arrests included five for DUI, six for disorderly conduct, seven for public drunkenness and 17 for underage drinking, police said. There were also several calls for assaults, fights and snowball throwing. <The Daily Collegian>

U Penn Junior Pleads Guilty in Hacking Scheme

In Federal Court Friday Engineering Junior Ryan Goldstein pleaded guilty to helping a hacker crash the School of Engineering and Applied Science’s server in February 2006.

Goldstein pleaded guilty to aiding and abetting another person to gain unauthorized access to a protected computer, a federal misdemeanor. Goldstein was arrested last November, after a grand jury indicted him for conspiracy to commit computer fraud, a more severe offense than the charge to which Goldstein pleaded. <Daily Pennsylvanian>