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Tufts to Dorm Dwellers: Get a Room!
Tufts University has just instituted a policy you'd think wouldn't need to be an official rule: don't have sex in your dorm room while your roommate's present, and don't "sexile" (sex + exile) your roommate, say at 3 a.m., because you want to get it on with your college sweetheart (or random hookup). So basically, if you're dwelling in a dorm, either have enough money to get a hotel room, find a comfy broom closet if passion strikes, or go without.
The Tufts policy arose because students were complaining that their horny roommates were intruding on their privacy and interfering with their studies by either having sex while they were present (ewww!) or asking them to leave for a few minutes.
Get Educated on the Candidate's Higher Ed Proposals
An educated population benefits an entire country. Thus, both John McCain and Barack Obama have plans to make college degrees more affordable. Both candidates reach for that goal with drastically different plans.
Hungover? Two Withdraw From Petition to Lower Drinking Age
Pressure from Mothers Against Drunk Driving, safety experts, and politicians has sobered up two college presidents who originally attached their names to a petition to lower the drinking age. In the meantime, 15 other presidents added their names.
Kendall Blanchard, the president of Georgia Southwestern State University in Americus, and Robert M.
Check This: Exporting US Universities
It was so gorgeous yesterday that as I was walking around, I thought my whole town looked just like one of those glossy college viewbooks — you know the idyllic pictures of students lounging on the grass, being studious. I inhaled those when I was picking a college. Apparently, that US shiny-student lifestyle is the new hot export.
Group Therapy: Am I Too Young to Be Having a Midlife Crisis???
Is it possible to be as unhappy with how things have turned out as I am right now? I'm 28, no real career, no man, no money (well not really) and I never ever thought I'd still be renting at my age!! I'm only now considering going back to school, which is a start, but by the time I'm done I'll be 32!!
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Oh Snap! Venezuela Rules the Universe
Miss Venezuela Stefania Fernandez was crowned Miss Universe 2009 last night at the Miss Universe pageant. The Donald Trump-led franchise, which has been televised since 1955, definitely gets a lot of attention for bringing together the world's "most beautiful" women (read: tall, thin, great bathing suit body). Despite the objectifying nature of beauty pageants, they don't seem to be going anywhere soon.
Oh Snap! Miss Tiffany's Universe Contest Crowns Beauty
Over the weekend in Pattaya, Thailand, the 12th annual Miss Tiffany's Universe contest crowned another winner, 20-year-old Sorrawee Nattee.
All of the Miss Tiffany's contestants are transsexuals or transvestites and the contest aims to promote human rights for the transgender population in Thailand. In Thailand, the transgender population is considered a third gender.
The Homecoming Queen's Got a Gun!
Well, actually, she has a penis, but who cares! George Mason University showed some major cojones when it crowned a special homecoming queen at its Saturday basketball game: the super cute Ryan Allen who was dressed in his drag persona Reann Ballslee. Curious about Ryan/Reann?
Say What? Priest Says Don't Just Sit There and Masturbate!
"My concern is these students are in this developmental phase, and I don't think it's a good developmental practice to just tell somebody to just sit around and masturbate. I don't think that promotes good relationships."
— Father Joe Vetter, Duke University's Catholic Center director, reacting to news that a behavioral economist and student health workers at Duke University asked women on campus to discuss how they felt about sex toys.
University of Washington Students Eat With Compost!
When people live somewhere as naturally beautiful as the Pacific Northwest, I imagine they stop at no limits to help keep their environment clean and green. The University of Washington has banished all things plastic from its dining hall, opting for serving products that can be tossed directly into a compost pile.
The cups, containers, plates, and utensils are made of corn, reed work, and sugar cane.
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