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Ivy League Takes Top Honors in Third Annual Sexual Health Report Card, DePaul Not So Much

Ivy League Takes Top Honors in Third Annual Sexual Health Report Card, DePaul Not So Much

Trojan Condoms released their third annual Sexual Health Report Card today, and the Ivy League took two of the top five spots and placed favorably overall.

 

For the uninitiated, the Sexual Health Report Card ranks 130 colleges and universities based on the quality and availability of sexual health services and resources on campus. And so, in th...

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New Boston University Center Will Study Athletes' Brains

New Boston University Center Will Study Athletes' Brains

Week after week we obsess over athletes’ bodies… who got hit where, who used theirs to run in a touchdown and who is looking hot (okay, maybe that’s just the women out there).
 

Now, a new center at Boston University’s School of Medicine is putting the focus on athletes’ brains. Twelve athletes have agreed to sign over their brains after death ...

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Harvard Graduate Students Robbed at Gunpoint

Harvard Graduate Students Robbed at Gunpoint

Is Cambridge, Massachusetts no longer safe for students?

 

In the last two weeks, four students – a Boston University woman and three Harvard graduate students – have been robbed near Harvard University. While the incidents are unrelated, students should avoid travelling in the area at night whenever possible.

 

The most recent incident, involvi...

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My September 11th: Callum Hanlon

My September 11th: Callum Hanlon

So, I was just in the process of writing my September 11th memories and my browser crashed. I was about three quarters of the way through my rather long and emotional weightyaccount when it happened, and I just can't see subjecting myself to retelling the taxing story.


Thinking about how stressful it can be to recount the day, I can't help but ...

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Forbes Magazine Starstruck by Rich BU Grad Nishita Shah

Forbes Magazine Starstruck by Rich BU Grad Nishita Shah

Oh snap! Poor old Billy Gates is no longer the richest man in the world. Warrett Buffet knocked the Microsoft nerd extraordinaire from his pedestal, and now there’s a new crop shaking their money makers. Two leaders are the 28-year-old Boston University alum, Nishita Shah, and entertainer/producer Tyler Perry.

  

Forbes has released its list of ...

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ESPN To Name TitleTown, USA on Monday

ESPN To Name TitleTown, USA on Monday

Don't forget to vote for YOUR town (I'm voting Chapel Hill, of course) for TitleTown USA!

 

Voting will continue through noon Sunday, with winners announced Monday, July 28 on Sportscenter.

 

May the best town win!

College Actually Uses Money For Good

College Actually Uses Money For Good

I’ve always been told that a good education is priceless. And at Berea College in Kentucky it is! The school uses its $1.1 billion endowment to provide a tuition-free education for low-income families only.
 

That gift comes with a price though. If you want to say hello to learning on the cheap, then be prepared to say goodbye to football teams,...

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Sex Toy Technology Finally Hits Beauty Market

Sex Toy Technology Finally Hits Beauty Market

First sex toy worker bees busily manufactured vibrators in "girl-friendly" shapes and colors. The Rabbit! It's Pink -- for girls! And now beauty chemists and marketers are releasing mascaras that vibrate, as everyone knows you are supposed to apply mascara to lashes by moving in side-to-side motion, gently working your way up, from base to tip.

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How To Handle Love At First Sight

How To Handle Love At First Sight

The vast and rocky relationship climate, soaked with social networking sites, random hook ups, and artful scheming, has not prepared us for the realities of kismet, chemically-charged romance. College students, unassumingly, walking the line of blissful connection or epic mess, resting on the wolf-bitten heels of physical attraction. Is there an...

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Wife In Exchange for NBA Tickets

Wife In Exchange for NBA Tickets

Man alive! I don't know how I missed this diamond in the Craigslist rough during the recent NBA championships, but thanks to some clever digital archaeology, the world will know the horror and idiocy of one Boston-area resident.

 

Trading your wife for Celtics tickets? I guess he's trying to save money for legal fees related to his impending div...

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