Mayhem at Wesleyan University

Wesleyan University, one of the most annoying liberal arts schools in the United States, had a end-of-school “huge block party” last night. Police used force (paintball guns with pepper balls, tasers, dogs) to disperse the 250 students on the street; some of them threw bottles at police cars, reports NBC30. [Gawker]

Football Related Deaths On The Rise

There is a silent and tragic problem plaguing the sports world that has nothing to do with performance-enhancing drugs or athletes engaging in nefarious affairs. This is far more severe, yet apparently not severe enough to garner much national attention, let alone congressional hearings.

Young football players are dying from practicing too intensely, often in extreme heat. Yes, we’re talking about practice.

On March 18, Central Florida wide receiver Ereck Plancher collapsed in a spring drill and died roughly an hour later. Plancher is the latest young footballer to pass away from taxing physical conditioning. [Daily Bruin]

Sean Avery’s Internship At Vogue Begins

When we first heard that Rangers left wing Sean Avery was going to intern for Vogue magazine this summer, once the Rangers were finally eliminated from the playoffs, we assumed it was a joke, or some stunt meant to get Avery a seat next to that weird lady with the crazy glasses at Roger Federer matches. But nope: Apparently Avery’s really working there.

He started his internship on Monday, and he’s already digging in. [Dead Spin]

NYU Grad Student’s Yankee Stadium Prank

A graduating New York University student was ejected from his commencement at Yankee Stadium yesterday after he was caught trying to steal home.

William Lopez, 21, of Manhasset, LI, was among 6,000 students who sat in the box seats behind home plate and along the first base and third base lines at the first graduation to take place at the House that Ruth Built.

NYU, which held its 176th commencement at the storied stadium because of construction at Washington Square Park, had a strict ground rule.

“The students had been repeatedly advised . . . that they were strictly prohibited from being on the field,” said NYU spokesman John Beckman.

About three-quarters of the way through the ceremony, Lopez, wearing his gown and mortarboard, leaped over the right-field fence onto the field. [NY Post]

Joe Montana’s Oldest Son to Walk On At Notre Dame as Quarterback

Joe Montana can’t help himself. Standing on the sidelines of Maranatha High, a Hail Mary pass away from the Rose Bowl, the Super Bowl legend is stretching his arms out and continuously licking his fingers before getting his hands on a football.

“I’m just getting ready,” says Montana, wearing a navy Notre Dame T-shirt, gold shorts and sneakers. “You know, just in case.”

Montana’s watching his eldest son, Nate — a senior at national power De La Salle (Concord, Calif.) who will be a preferred walk on with Notre Dame this fall. [SI]

10 Year-Old Boy Genius Takes College By Storm

With the end of another school year approaching, college sophomore Moshe Kai Cavalin is cramming for final exams in classes such as advanced mathematics, foreign languages and music.

But Cavalin is only 10 years old. And at 4-foot-7, his shoes don’t quite touch the floor as he puts down a schoolbook and swivels around in his chair to greet a visitor.

“I’m studying statistics,” says the alternately precocious and shy Cavalin, his textbook lying open on the living room desk of his parents’ apartment in this quiet suburb east of Los Angeles. [AP News]

College Student Elected Mayor of Oklahoma City At Age 19

A 19-year-old first-year student at the University of Oklahoma was elected mayor Tuesday of Muskogee, a city of 38,000 in the northeastern part of the state.

With all precincts reporting, John Tyler Hammons won with 57 percent of the vote over former Mayor Hershel Ray McBride, said Muskogee County Election Board.

Hammons, who will be sworn in next week, said he plans to continue his college education but expects to transfer to a school closer to Muskogee. [PR Inside]

Colorado State’s Undie Run Brings Stress Relief, Benefits Charity

At first, there were only a few people, about eight in all.

But as 11:50 p.m. drew near Friday night, people started showing up at the Lory Student Center in droves. It would only be a matter of minutes before a little over 400 men and women clad only in their underwear were joking and laughing, chanting and screaming in front of the LSC, ready to make a run for it.

Friday marked CSU’s first-ever Undie Run, organized by a CSU student on Facebook to bring this time-honored finals-stress-relieving college tradition home to the university. [Rocky Mountain Collegian]

U of Wis. Frat Fire Damage Estimated at $750,000

Instead of cramming for finals, 25 members of the Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity sat on a Metro Transit bus early this morning at the corner of Langdon and Frances streets keeping warm as dozens of Madison firefighters battled a massive fire that enveloped their fraternity house.

“It’s good to know everybody’s out and safe,” said Madison Fire Department spokeswoman Bernadette Galvez at the scene as the firefighters behind her pumped 1,000 gallons of water a minute into the top level of the three-story wooden house at 237 Langdon St.

The 13-bedroom house was completely repaired after a fire in the summer of 1999 that caused $500,000 in damage.

“This is different in that it’s a total loss,” said Ryan Sugden, vice president for the Sigma Phi Epsilon alumni board, who lived in the house from 2003 to 2005. This time, there were 25 fraternity members living in a house that at maximum occupancy can house 30, Sugden said.

“It’s a total loss. Nothing will be recovered from that house,” he said. [Madison.com]

Nude Pictures of Niagra University Womens Hoops Star Leak Online

Usually when you hear the phrase, “naked women’s basketball player”, you cringed. Not this time.

The Purple Eagle (this story could only be better if she played for South Carolina) in question is Danie Mosca. Looking at her profile photo from the 2005-2006 season, it looks like we have a match.

Hint: Check out the Niagra Basketball schedule in the background of the pictures too! [Don Chavez]

Buster’s Big Day

Florida State junior Buster Posey was all over Mike Martin Field on Monday afternoon–literally.

Posey played all nine positions in a seven-inning, 10-0 win over Savannah State.

“One of the finest athletes in the history of Florida State baseball,” FSU coach Mike Martin Sr. said of Posey after the game. [SI: On Campus]

Sophomore safety Jamar Hornsby has been kicked off the University of Florida football team in the wake of allegations that he fraudulently used a credit card issued to Ashley Slonina, the UF student who died in an October motorcycle crash that also killed Gators walk-on Michael Guilford.

Hornsby “is not a part of our program,” Florida coach Urban Meyer said in a statement Friday afternoon. [Independent Florida Alligator]

U of Iowa To Review Student Athlete Facebook Profiles

In a society in which almost every college student–even more specifically, student-athletes–have a profile on at least one or more social networking sites, the Hawkeye athletics department is using the phenomenon to crack down on athletes who “inappropriately represent the UI.”

On Thursday, the Presidential Committee on Athletics unanimously approved a new social networking policy and guiding principles for student-athletes in their use of the websites. [The Daily Iowan]

You may remember UnCoached’s coverage of the Arizona State University’s “Undie Run” last week. Just last night, a whole new batch of photos were released.

For those of you who don’t know, the ASU “Undie Run” is an annual charity event that drawns over 1,000 half naked ASU kids. Apparently the slogan at this legendary occasion is “Say No To Drugs, Say Yes To Undie Run.”

Considering the puking and sudo-gangbanging taking place, I’m sure none of these kids were drunk or high during this event.

Check out the must see event pictures. [UnCoached]

World’s Youngest College Professor Can’t Legally Drink

Perhaps in Alia Sabur’s wildly advanced studies she came across a famous quote from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.

“Knowing is not enough. We must apply,” the German writer once observed.

At the age of 18, Alia Sabur was recognized as the youngest college professor in history, breaking a 300-year-old record. [MSNBC]

Officials: SDSU Student Drug Dealer Linked to Tijuana Cartel

The sweeping undercover drug operation that traced more than $100,000 worth of drugs and cash to fraternity and student houses on and around San Diego State campus Tuesday may have been linked to the Tijuana cartel through pre-health science student Omar Castaneda, a member of the South Side Pomona gang, officials said Wednesday.

“Castaneda was involved in drug trafficking at the highest level that we’ve ever seen on a university campus,” Mosler said. “His source of supply of the cocaine comes from Mexico. The cartel is responsible for smuggling most of the cocaine from Columbia through our border here in San Diego.”[The Daily Aztec]

Among the students earning degrees from the University of Pittsburgh this spring, there was one famous honoree: “Dr. Dan.”Better known as former Miami Dolphin and Pitt quarterback, Dan Marino was the guest speaker at Pitt’s commencement ceremony, where 4,317 undergraduate, master’s and doctoral students officially became alumni.

Chancellor Mark A. Nordenberg awarded Pitt alumnus Marino an honorary doctoral degree in broadcast journalism, making him the first graduate in Pitt’s Class of 2008. Marino said that he will make sure his colleagues at CBS’s “The NFL Today” will know of his accomplishment.

“Now they have to refer to me as Dr. Dan,” said Marino.

Nordenberg introduced Marino to the crowd in the Petersen Events Center as an outstanding football player, Panther and person.

“He has excelled in his current role, not because he threw 420 touchdown passes, but because he is intelligent, articulate and analytical, the qualities of a well-educated person,” said Nordenberg.

Marino, a member of both the Pro Football and NCAA halls of fame, graduated from Pitt’s School of Arts and Sciences in 1983. He reflected on his Oakland upbringing and the years he spent at Pitt. [Pitt News]

San Diego State University Chick Hits Batting Cages

Since the mainstream media is focusing on the bad side of San Diego State University, we figured it was time to shed a little light on the good going on for the Aztecs.

The good is named Jessica B., and she is in the running for the 2008-2009 Tempe12 cover model job. We dig this chick because she likes sports–especially baseball. Check out the rest of her pictures: [Busted Coverage]

‘Generation Debt’ Afflicting Students

Kolby Lanning has borrowed $55,000 in student loans to finance his first three years at the University of Kansas. He will have borrowed $200,000 more by the time he completes his senior year and dental school at the University of Missouri at Kansas City, Mo.

Adding in the compounding interest on his unsubsidized loans, the Independence junior figures he will owe about $300,000 when he begins his career as a dentist in 2011.

“It’s hard to believe your debt can add up that much in such a short amount of time,” said Lanning. “I guess I never really took the interest into consideration.” [University Daily Kansan]

35 Arrested at Snoop Dogg Concert at University of New Hampshire

Over 5,000 rowdy students packed U. of New Hampshire’s Whittemore Gym to see Snoop Dogg play last Friday night.

The crowd was relatively under control, but 35 students were arrested for charges ranging from possession of alcohol to possession of drugs, one was even arrested for cocaine possession.

This spring concert was a cake walk for security compared last years Ludacris concert that saw 144 arrests. [The New Hampshire]

New Round of RIAA Letters Sent to College Students

The Recording Industry Association of America recently began another round of letters to universities, alleging that students on those school networks had infringed on digital copyrights and would face litigation.

This new wave of letters is the most recent effort by the RIAA to crack down on illegal downloading on campuses. [UWIRE]

Dartmouth’s ‘Hostile’ Environment

Often it seems as though American higher education exists only to provide gag material for the outside world.

The latest spectacle is an Ivy League professor threatening to sue her students because, she claims, their “anti-intellectualism” violated her civil rights. [Wall Street Journal]

Dozens of San Diego State University students were arrested after a sweeping drug investigation found that some fraternity members openly dealt drugs and one even sent a mass text message advertising cocaine, authorities said Tuesday.

Two kilograms of cocaine were seized, along with 350 Ecstasy pills, marijuana, psychedelic mushrooms, hash oil, methamphetamine, illicit prescription drugs, several guns and at least $60,000 in cash, authorities said. [Yahoo]

SWAT Team Presence at Canisius’ Annual Spring Party

Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown offered his first comments Saturday to a beefed up police presence watching a college’s annual spring party. He faced the question, “Was it all necessary?”

The law enforcement presence was tough to miss. SWAT teams with guns and armored cars, all for a college party. [WIVB.com]

Binghamton Basketball Player Charged in Night Club Beat-Down

Binghamton University men’s basketball player was arrested Sunday and charged with second-degree assault, a felony, after police said he repeatedly kicked a BU student in the head early Sunday morning in a Downtown bar.

Miladin “Minja” Kovacevic, a 20-year-old sophomore from Serbia, was accused of causing serious head injuries to an unidentified BU student inside the Rathskeller night club on 92 State St. in Binghamton. [Pipe Dream]

After enduring countless “takeouts,” the freshman pledges of Lambda Phi Epsilon called it quits. Promising anonymity, The Daily Northwestern gives us the unpleasant details of pledge-life at Northwestrn’s Lambda fraternity. [Daily Northwestern]

Class with Kumar: Penn Students Say Actor’s Class Was A Hit

Actor Kal Penn — conquered Hollywood after his hit movie Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle. But, with students raving about his Asian American Studies class as the semester ends, it seems Modi has conquered something perhaps more significant than teenage humor: the field of academia.

“I was a little skeptical at first about what credentials gave him the right to teach a class at Penn,” said a College senior and Cinema Studies major. “By the end of the class, I realized it wasn’t his academic credentials that got him here, it was his experience in the field - which is equally valuable,” she said. [Daily Pennsylvanian]

Name That Giant HOFer Melon Watching ASU Baseball

Can you guess which Steroid Era legend (hint: huge melon) watched Friday night’s Arizona State game? [Busted Coverage]