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It’s back-to-school time, and you know what that means–awesome parties, hot chicks and lots and lots of beer. Sure, college is supposed to be about studying and bettering yourself. But that’s only half of it. To prepare you for the forgotten drunken wonderful nights you’re about to endure, we’ve put together the quintessential compilation of the one thing that’s best about the college experience–Beer Bong Babes.
Online ‘Textbooks’ Are Hitting The Mainstream
As textbook prices skyrocket, college students and faculty seeking more affordable options increasingly are turning to “open textbooks” as an alternative.
Open textbooks are free textbooks available online that are licensed to allow users to download, customize and print any part of the text. Professors can change content to fit their teaching styles. Some authors offer a print-on-demand service that produces professionally bound copies for $10 to $20.
Textbook prices have outpaced inflation 2-to-1 in the past two decades, says a 2005 report by the Government Accountability Office. They account for 26% of tuition and fees at four-year public universities and nearly three-quarters of costs at community colleges, the GAO says. [USA Today]
10 Of The Greenest Colleges in America
When it comes to protecting the planet, many schools have given it more than a college try. In fact, America’s institutions of higher learning are some of the best incubators of sustainable solutions to myriad problems, and they are molding and inspiring the bright minds that will inherit the environment from the current generation of leaders.
Here are some of the colleges that excite us with their strong commitment to going green. Thankfully, the list isn’t comprehensive. [The Daily Green]
The 25 Toughest Stadiums In EA’s NCAA 09
Florida is #2 so why don’t you check out who is #1, and view the rest of the top 25 while you are at it. [I Gotta Rant]
In Stunning Victory Fresno State Wins The College World Series
Steve Susdorf brandished the championship trophy and Kris Tomlinson held a bag of ice to the left eye socket he had bruised moments earlier in a celebratory dog pile. Their Fresno State teammates wandered through a crowd of players, coaches, friends and family in front of the first-base dugout, looking for people to hug.
Four weeks after they scraped into the NCAA tournament, seeded fourth and last in their regional pod, the Bulldogs were perhaps the most unlikely champions in college baseball history, and no one could stop smiling. [uwire]
Mocking the Mock Draft
With the NBA draft just around the corner, it’s time to project which players will have which shiny new hats bestowed upon them. But this isn’t your typical mock draft; it’s SIOC’s Mock Mock Draft, where you’ll find out what each team really needs. [SI On Campus]
University of Minnesota Denies Victoria’s Secret
Don’t expect to see Goldy Gopher on Victoria’s Secret merchandise anytime soon.
University of Minnesota officials have notified its licensing agency that they do not want their mascot associated with Victoria’s Secret PINK Collegiate Collection.
“We are not making a judgment in regards to Victoria’s Secret,” said University spokesman Dan Wolter. “We just don’t feel it is in our institution’s best interest right now.” [Star Tribune]
Weed has a really schizophrenic status in American culture. Pretty much everyone’s tried it, but getting busted with even a small amount of it can land you some serious jail time.
Meanwhile, magazines like High Times boast super-ridiculous, high-definition marijuana centerfolds and smoking tips, and you can buy amazingly ornate smoking paraphernalia, like, at the local mall. Way to be low-key.
Although smoking pot is normalized, if not practically mainstream (we’re long past the “Reefer Madness” era, after all), there have been over eight million cannabis arrests in the United States since 1993 — at a rate of 1 cannabis users arrested every 40 seconds. And this is in a country where growing and selling pot, at least for medicinal purposes, is totally legal in many states. Could it get more convoluted?
In hopes of alleviating the confusing f*ck-all of cannabis culture in the United States, a new higher institution (pun intended) in the Bay Area has opened its doors to curious stoners, enterprising hydroponic botanists, and legalization activists. Half-jokingly dubbed “Oaksterdam University,” this Oakland trade school is a full-fledged university of weed. Read More »
When you bring home a one-night stand from the local bar, or even step barefoot into a dorm shower, you may be putting yourself at great physical risk.
So we spoke to doctors from several universities about sexually transmitted infections, sexual dysfunction, steroids, pregnancies and even pubic-hair removal. It wasn’t pleasant.
I. You gave me what?
Most college-student health centers spend lots of time screening patients for sexually transmitted infections, or STIs. Doctors say the number-one reason students schedule appointments is for Pap tests or pelvic exams. Their results might come as a surprise: You’re definitely carrying something, and that something is called HPV. Dr. Davis Smith, medical director of the student health center at Wesleyan University, says: “For college-aged students moderately sexually active - about two to three partners a year - the likelihood of exposure to an HPV (Human Papil-lomavirus) is 100 percent.” Ouch!
Campus Squeeze recently put out a list of “The 20 Ugliest Colleges in the USA” as a follow up to their “The 20 Most Beautiful Colleges in the USA” list published back in August.
I’ve been to the majority of these campuses and for the most part I agree, although I was surprised to see Drew University and Ithaca College on the list.
If your school is on this list don’t feel too bad - I’m sure you make up for it by having crazy parties and good-looking babes. (But if you don’t, the joke’s on you!)
Check out the Top 20 after the jump! Read More »
One of the first things every college student should locate when they hit campus is the best place to catch the game. Sure watching it in your room with a bag of Cheetos can be fun, but nothing beats catching it with a few thousands of your classmates. And the students on these campuses have it way better then the rest. Read More »
Here is my response to the UK’s Daily Mail article titled “The ladettes who glorify their shameful drunken antics on Facebook”:
“Drunken antics” points out how Facebook is being used as a tool for girls to flaunt how drunk and wild they get in college. I know this sounds like an oxymoron; but just look at the Facebook group “30 Reasons Girls Should Call It A Night” for proof.
Over 157,000+ skanky members and growing by the minute.
What I expected to be an article featuring telling photographic proof of the graphic “gone wild” antics of college girls turned out to be a PG-censored fest. Very disappointing!
At first I assumed that I was the only person who felt they were duped into clicking the story by an eye-catching, NSFW-esque title, but apparently I wasn’t - just look at the disgruntled Digg comment board for the story!
To help everyone better understand the drunken antics of today’s college girls I have compiled a series of seven galleries, each representing seven different major US colleges.
***All pictures were taken from Facebook, thus proving there is indeed drunken madness going down 24/7 on college campuses…and girls love to flaunt it on Facebook!***
We all know the quote: “Sleep tight… Don’t let the Bed Bugs bite!”
For the majority of my lifetime, I’ve shrugged off that quote, certain that bugs in my bed that would bite me in my sleep were no more real than the boogyman in my closet who would emerge from my open closet in order to rip my head off (of course, to this day I can’t fall asleep without completely shutting my closet door, but that’s neither here nor there).
Unfortunately, both for my ever-changing sense of reality and for our collective health, bed bugs are not only very real, but they are very rapidly becoming a country-wide epidemic. Yes, those bed bugs are biting, and weary people everywhere are lamenting their lack of tight sleeps and bodies covered in itchy, annoying bites. Read More »
I’m a progressive girl. I’m all about equality.But give me my own bathroom.
Co-ed bathrooms are one of college’s biggest mysteries. Who thought it would be a good idea? Who decided that it would be totally cool to completely devoid college kids of any type of privacy? Did none of the inventors of co-ed bathrooms ever have a crush?
And if they did, how could they fathom perhaps bumping into that crash while they still had pimple stuff on their face and crow’s nest on top of their head?
I just don’t understand it. The bathroom is sacred. Private. It’s not a place I want to discuss homework or chat about the newest TV show.
I don’t want to step out of the shower and come face to face with the captain of the lacrosse team. I don’t need that sort of horrible awkwardness in my life. Read More »
