Pre-Weekend News Roundup

* SI on Campus considered crowning junior golfer Amanda Blumenherst the best Duke athlete ever as the two-time National Player of the Year suits up to win again this year. 


* Wesleyan students whooped it up over the announcement that Obama will replace Ted Kennedy at their commencement this weekend. 


* The folks at Dueling Tampons reflected on the days that convinced them to come to Penn, and offered a “bittersweet memory video” as a retrospective.


* Wondrous anchorwoman Lesley Stahl dared to use the P-word during her commencement speech at tight-buttoned Loyola College.
 

* Harvard’s favorite sexual liberator offered readers a peek at her privates on her blog The Chicktionary.

 
* Oregon’s Daily Emerald took a closer look at baseball star Bryan Hansen as he prepares for the National Club Baseball Association World Series. 


* University officials at Northeastern took time to mass email students, acknowledging the identity of a female senior athletic training major found shot to death in an off-campus apartment. 


* In other mass email news, the BWog reported that Dean of Columbia College, Austin Quigley, announced next fall will be his last. 

 
* Finally, editors at the PreReq wondered if college students are failing at being American amid reports that only 45% of college students knew that the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution gave LBJ authority to expand the Vietnam War.