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]

Despite this being the end of the regular school year, fraternity hazing (which traditionally happens at the beginning of the school year) cases are popping-up all over the country, from UW-Madison to Alabama State.

Add to the list yesterday’s report from Tulane that 10 students were arrested for felony battery after burning their pledges with hot water and spraying them in the face with pepper spray.

In light of such news, here is COED’s 20 Things You Didn’t Know About Hazing.

20 Things You Didn’t Know About Hazing after the jump! Read More »

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]

CODY LUMMUS
Texas Tech University
Delta Tau Delta

PHILOSOPHY: ‘I always drink Sprite — it’s healthier because it doesn’t have caffeine.’

BREAKFAST: ‘No time. I wake up ten minutes before class.’

LUNCH: All fast food, all the time. Plus, ‘I usually super-size my meal.’ And Sprite, of course.

DINNER: ‘Anything meat’ (fajitas, steaks, burgers) coupled with ‘anything beer.’

SNACKS: ‘Whatever is in the pantry; Goldfish crackers, peanut butter, assorted and peanut butter, packaged goods seem to be the way to his stomach.

NEVER: ‘I don’t eat desserts ‘I’m not much of a fan,’ Cody starts, ‘But I’ll eat chocolate-chip cookies every once in a while.’

This article was a response to “What a Swimmer Eats.”

If I was still in college right now, I’d be peeing my pants with excitement over this awesome new development in alcoholism.

The Portopong!

Yes, yes, the summer is almost over (10 days and counting) but if you have access to a pool and a group of fun-loving friends, the Portopong is where it’s at. What college student doesn’t love a good game of pong? And in a pool no less? Yea, how about no less than amazing.

Just to make sure, we’re talking about this kind of pong, not this kind. Read More »

With the return of classes comes the return of dorm hookups, frat parties, beer pong competitions, and keg stands. It’s all fun and games, until someone loses an eye!

I don’t mean to get all Mom on you, but all of us have had at least one partying experience that ends in waking up with a hangover, vowing, “I’m never drinking again. No, seriously. Never again.�?

Usually, this vow holds up until the next happy hour…

And now that school has started up for most of us and we are finally getting into our college routine, here comes National Campus Safety Awareness Month!

Unfortunately, when it comes to words of warning, cliché advice like “watch how much you drink�? and “don’t go home with strangers�? often goes in one ear and out the other, until you find yourself still tipsy, doing the walk of shame back to your dorm.

So, keeping in mind that you won’t be abstaining from alcohol or random hookups all together in the name of campus safety, here are my tips for keeping yourself safe: Read More »

Last year for the first time ever, TIME magazine rated YouTube as its 2006 “Person of the Year.�? Ummm…last time I checked, a person was a living, breathing, beer funneling, pong playing human – not some silicon chip powered by electricity. Well, in reality TIME claimed that we, the YouTubers were all TIME’s Person of The Year. So, in some twisted way my ego is boosted.

There is a theory in history known as the “Great Man�? theory. Thomas Carlyle was largely responsible for the belief that “the history of the world is but the biography of great men,�? or in dumbed down frat language, that the few and powerful shape our society. With YouTube, and the explosion of other community driven sites and tools, that theory took some serious heat last year.

Fast forward to the beautiful year of 2007 and the growth continues, with some really wacky ideas and sites emerging. All of these sites share a common thread, they deliver on our crack-like addition to on-demand data 24/7, anywhere and by any means possible. Read More »