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UCI Reuses, Recycles and Respects the Red Cup.

UCI Reuses, Recycles and Respects the Red Cup.

The best thing to happen to college was the good ol’ red cup. It’s my friend, your friend, and an overall good time.

 

Last week, our very own Buckys lil Blogger gave us ten ways to use a cup. I loved it and felt like it is was my duty to show the world how we use, recycle, and respect the red cup on the West Coast.

 

Like all college houses sho...

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Naked And Loving It: The Top 10 Organized Streaking Events On Campuses

Naked And Loving It: The Top 10 Organized Streaking Events On Campuses

Streaking has been a tradition at colleges for decades and our generation holds up Frank the Tank as the mascot for these activities.
 

And why not? What’s not to like about the stray hot blond chick running across the football field? (Though let’s be honest, it’s more often a less-than-hot drunk guy). But some schools’ students have gone above ...

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Heather Locklear DUI 911 Caller Identified as Former US Weekly Staffer and FBI Suspect Jill Ishkanian

Heather Locklear DUI 911 Caller Identified as Former US Weekly Staffer and FBI Suspect Jill Ishkanian

Rewind a couple of days to when CollegeOTR covered the arrest of Heather Locklear for DUI. Remember how we thought the 911 caller who informed the authorities of Locklear’s behavior after following her around for hours might be a creep? Well, looks like that is indeed the case. TMZ has uncovered the identity of the woman as Jill Ishkanian an ex-...

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Sony Screws Employees, UC Santa Cruz Wins

Sony Screws Employees, UC Santa Cruz Wins

The lucky nerds at UC Santa Cruz are now receiving $460,000 in grant funding— because Sony screwed its workers on their overtime compensation. In 2007, employees of the company sued for unpaid overtime hours, and a settlement was reached worth $8.5 million. Inexplicably, some of the money was not collected, so it was donated to UCSC for the comp...

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On the 7th Day God Said, "Ride a Bike."

On the 7th Day God Said, "Ride a Bike."

Anyone that goes to UC Davis, or has ever been to the city of Davis, is aware of the fact that people love their bikes. I mean it is actually frightening how much people love their bikes.

 

On any given afternoon you can see the streets flooded with a wave of bikers cruising down the streets, but there is a special “biker” amongst the mere civil...

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Movie "College" Has Nothing On Actual College

Movie "College" Has Nothing On Actual College

The “college visit” movie is hard to pull off (see the monstrosity that was College Road Trip).
 

But yet another contender is throwing its hat in the ring, and it’s simply titled College.
 

The movie, which follows three high school students' wild weekend visit to a local campus, premieres this Friday. Watch the trailer below:

 

 

The previe...

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Breaking News: 90% of Girls Sexually Harassed!

Breaking News: 90% of Girls Sexually Harassed!

Okay guys, maybe you think that holla-ing at the ladies is harmless, but think again. A new UC Santa Cruz study has found that 90% of girls report being sexually harassed in some form or another.

 

13WMAZ reports:


Talk to girls in high schools across the country, and you'll hear similar stories about being inappropriately touched in the hallway...

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The Best & Worst Off-Campus Housing

The Best & Worst Off-Campus Housing

The Boston Globe reported that a new housing project for UMass Lowell was halted because the public construction project never went through state bidding; it was just handed off to a private developer. Now this over packed campus will have to wait a long while before appropriate housing is built to accommodate its students. 

 

UMass isn’t the ...

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Animal Rights Protesters Puss Out

Animal Rights Protesters Puss Out

Sure there have been a handful of badass scientists: Dr. Octavius, Dr. Strangelove, Dr. Frankenstein. It seems, however, that these days it’s getting more and more perilous to hustle in the laboratory, with recent reports of UC Santa Cruz scientists being threatened via pamphlets left in a coffeehouse.

 

According to police, the pamphlets were e...

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Animal Rights Activists Protest Coast to Coast

Animal Rights Activists Protest Coast to Coast

Although the notoriously liberal Cal students are still carrying on the tree-hugging tradition, the Animal Liberation Front has forces "fighting" throughout the nation. They've tried more pacifying methods of protesting but have been disappointed with their results. By resorting to tactics common to anti-abortion activists, animal lovers are bri...

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