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Science Project Fuels Airport Bomb Scare

Matt Cantor — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 08:07:03 CDT

A college student's science project prompted a panic at Dallas Love Field airport yesterday, with authorities evacuating hundreds of people and detaining 11 passengers. As college students and their professor exited a Southwest Airlines plane that had flown in from Kansas City, one left a "robotic device" on board; a...

Teen Loses Her Legs in Train-Hop Stunt

Mary Papenfuss — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 02:31:00 CDT

A Colorado teenager lost both her legs below the knee when she tried to jump onto a moving freight train with her friends and slipped under the rails. One of her friends pulled her out and a nurse who happened to be passing applied tourniquets to her limbs, reports the...

Body in Creek May Be Missing College Student

Mary Papenfuss — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 01:58:14 CDT

A badly decomposed body found in a creek may be that of a missing Indiana University student, reports AP . Police are comparing any identifying characteristics and awaiting test results of today's autopsy, officials tell the Bloomington Herald Times. Bloomington student Lauren Spierer, 20, was last seen by friends walking to...

Prof Arrested for Closing Student's Laptop

Rob Quinn — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 05:34:37 CDT

A professor who got fed up with a student surfing the Internet instead of taking notes has been arrested and suspended for closing her laptop. Frank Rybicki, a professor of mass media at Valdosta State University, was arrested for battery after the student complained that her finger had been hurt...

In College, More Virgins, —and More Casual Sex

Kate Schwartz — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 11:17:42 CDT

The college life is getting more chaste—and more randy—at the same time, according to recent studies. A Stanford sociologist who surveyed a whopping 17,000 college students since 2005 found that a hefty 24% of seniors said they were virgins. That's a percentage on the rise, reports USA...

UChicago Kids Fight Nerdy Image With Casual Sex Site

Nick McMaster — Sat, 19 Mar 2011 07:56:53 CDT

The University of Chicago may be known as a bastion of sexless nerd-dom, but some undergrads are changing that with UChicago Hookups , a website that allows students to meet up for, well, whatever they might have in mind. Entries read more or less like the casual-encounters section of Craigslist: people...

Freshmen More Stressed Than Ever

Evann Gastaldo — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 08:04:30 CST

College freshmen might not be learning much —but that doesn’t mean they’re not stressed. The levels of emotional health in incoming freshmen hit a record low last year, probably thanks in part to the recession. According to an annual survey, students who rated themselves as having “below average” emotional health...

Drunk Student Tries to Cut Down 30-Foot Christmas Tree

Nick McMaster — Thu, 23 Dec 2010 16:55:05 CST

It wouldn't be the holidays without a bit of yuletide-themed idiocy—an Ohio college student faces disorderly conduct charges for allegedly trying to chop down a 30-foot pine tree near a public street, the Smoking Gun reports. Police came upon Grant Ison about 2 in the morning standing next to...

Cornell Student Arrested Holding $150K of Heroin

Nick McMaster — Tue, 21 Dec 2010 17:01:09 CST

Another Ivy League drug bust : Police arrested a Cornell senior who they say happened to be in possession of $150,000 worth of heroin. Keri Blakinger, 26, was allegedly holding the cache—about 500 doses' worth—in a hotel parking lot in the Collegetown section of Ithaca when police arrived...