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University of Chicago Allows Co-Ed Dorms; College Gets Potentially Way More Awesome

University of Chicago Allows Co-Ed Dorms; College Gets Potentially Way More Awesome

Following in a nation-wide trend, the University of Chicago will now be offering co-ed dorm rooms, Associated Press reports. Currently, more than 30 campuses allow girls and boys to share dorm rooms together, including Stanford, Brown, UPenn, and Weslyan.

 

A letter was sent out last week letting parents know that the school would begin allowing...

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USC Fraternity Brother Stabbed Before USC-Stanford Game

USC Fraternity Brother Stabbed Before USC-Stanford Game

Kellen Spani went to see the USC-Stanford game with some of his friends this past weekend, and by early Saturday morning had been stabbed while in a ten-person fight at a San Francisco bar. The Pi Kappa Alpha brother is still being hospitalized after the altercation outside of the Balboa Café. From the accounts of investigating police sergeant T...

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Bruins Show Pride on FSN, Destroy USC Fans

Bruins Show Pride on FSN, Destroy USC Fans

Bruins came out last night to appear on FSN’s “Lexus Gauntlet Live.” The taping took place in Bruin Plaza; the location of each week’s taping alternates between USC and UCLA.

 

And apparently, we have more spirit than our Trojan neighbors.

 

The Lexus Gauntlet is a sports competition sponsored by Lexus. It features a SoCal competition between U...

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Blue and Gold Week Now Homecoming Week?

Blue and Gold Week Now Homecoming Week?

UCLA's annual tradition of Blue and Gold Week will no longer precede the USC/UCLA game as it has done in years past. The week-long celebration, complete with a bonfire, parade, and rally will occur during this coming week, third week, rather than the week before the SC game which is Dec. 6.
 

And students are scratching thier heads.
 

The event...

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Hot Stanford Grad Joe DiPasquale Gives College Students What They Want, Gets $2M for CollegeWikis

Hot Stanford Grad Joe DiPasquale Gives College Students What They Want, Gets $2M for CollegeWikis

In 2007, Stanford student Joe DiPasquale launched CollegeWikis, a website of campus specific wikis, where users could ask and answer each other’s questions. Now, he’s just received an additional $2 million to improve college e-mail. His initiative will make it possible for college students to sign up for specific groups and receive e-mail about ...

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Google's Stanford Founders Rock It Old School, Send Us Back To 2001

Google's Stanford Founders Rock It Old School, Send Us Back To 2001

Those crazy kids at Google, they’re really blowing our minds today. First they introduce an ingenious anti-drunk-emailing application for Gmail, and now they’ve brought us back to 2001, with an old version of Google.
 

In honor of the super search engine’s 10th birthday, Google’s founders, former Stanford students Larry Page and Sergey Brin, ha...

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Weekend College Football Round-up

Weekend College Football Round-up

This weekend's college football headlines from Bleacher Report.

 

There are a lot of teams looking good and acting tough so far this season, but it’s often hard to tell who’s the real deal. The contender vs. pretender breakdown should quiet a lot of overeager fans.

 

Notre Dame beat Stanford this weekend which made Chris Marinelli eat his words,...

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This Week in College Football

This Week in College Football

This week in Bleacher Report college football headlines:

 

Everyone watches college and pro football, but high school is where you’re likely to see the next big superstar in action. Top high school football games can be way more exciting than their higher level counterparts.

 

But do those high school recruiting rankings actually translate to su...

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Ask.com Co-Founder Marries Escort/Stanford Law Student, Hit With Tax Evasion

Ask.com Co-Founder Marries Escort/Stanford Law Student, Hit With Tax Evasion

Remember how back in the day Ask.com was AskJeeves.com? Well looks like the website, more specifically co-founder David Warthen, had more tricks up his sleeve, or at least a wife turning tricks as a profession. The wifey Cristina Warthen, who used to go by the moniker Brazil, once marketed herself as "an unusual mix of well-educated good-girl an...

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New Clues Found at Mammoth Lakes for Missing Millionaire Adventurer and Stanford Alum Steve Fossett

New Clues Found at Mammoth Lakes for Missing Millionaire Adventurer and Stanford Alum Steve Fossett

Serial adventurer and millionaire Steve Fossett went missing after his plane flying over the Nevada desert mysteriously disappeared almost a year ago today, but now, new clues may have been found as to what exactly happened him.

 

A hiker in the Mammoth Lakes area found two FAA cards with Steve Fossett’s name on them, also nearby was a sweat jac...

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