Adultery. Something most college students don't experience first hand. (Unless you're an early bloomer like our friend Nate Archibold) Cheating, on the other hand, is arguably quite prevalent in the ambiguous relationship landscape of College. Infidelity always leads to drama- so what's the news?

According to a new study conducted by the Unive...

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Do you have a secret desire for Greek Girls? Strutting around campus with their lettered totes and brushed hair. They take over tables in Hutch and invade (the better) frat parties like flocks of seagulls. Their presence, boggling, getting to know them without an "in," sometimes difficult. Now some may claim that UofC sorority girls are not quit...

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It's Halloween time, Northwestern! Midterms are over and no signs of snow yet. Is there a better reason to celebrate... especially when you can dress up like a stuffy presidential candidate and still get laid?! So get your Palin glasses and take some notes, cause we've come up with the ultimate guide to your weekend festivities.

Now you might ...

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University of Chicago spokesperson Julie Peterson says the school can’t back out of naming its new economics institute the Milton Friedman Institute, despite the fact that Friedman was a proponent of (no, not Nazism, not sadomasochism, not Fascism) the dreaded free market economic principles. The name has gotten some faculty panties in a twist, ...

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CollegeOTR has already laid down the rules of several presidential debate drinking games (and we’re still kicking ourselves over failing to foresee the frequency with which John McCain would say “my friends” in the second debate.) Sometimes the debates get farcical, but it’s not so bad when you realize that you’re not the only one seeing the pol...

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Ratemyprofessors.com gives students an inside look at that guy lecturing in front of them, but what about the inspiring and not-so-inspiring teachers of Hollywood.

Check out the best, the worst and the most stoned of the professors on the big and small screen:

Most Ever Present

George Feeny, Boy Meets World

What can’t this guy do? In th...

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The winners of the 20008 Nobel Prize in Physics were announced today, and the honor didn’t just go to one man (or woman). Instead the prize was shared by three different researches, all collaborating on something called “symmetry breaking.” The big winners were Yoichiro Nambu at Enrico Fermi Institute, University of Chicago, Makoto Kobayashi at ...

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The country knows Barack Obama: the presidential candidate.
 

But what about Barack Obama: the professor?
 

Before he was a political rockstar, Obama taught law at the University of Chicago, but he was no ordinary professor.

The New York Times paints a picture of Professor Obama:

The young law professor stood apart in too many ways to count. ...

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I know McCain is old, but has he already forgotten how to count?
 

In an interview yesterday, the presidential hopeful was asked how many houses he owned and McCain told the reporter he’d have to get back him on that one.
 

Poor, poor Johnny (though obviously that's not poor as in financially). Obama pounced on the slip-up today, noting that McC...

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If you're looking for something to do this weekend, check out the following events happening all over the country.

• Music fans rejoice! Various music festivals will be taking place all weekend in different parts of Michigan. Included in the line up are: Idlewild Music Fest in Idlewild, Michigan Elvisfest in Ypsilanti and Blissfest in Cross Vi...

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We are a society that is obsessed with maintaining our youth, or at least the look of it. There are currently hundreds of products on the market that promise to prevent wrinkles, sagging and any other sign of aging. Magazines constantly feature images of flawless women, sending the message that aging is ugly and unnatural. We can only be beautif...

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1. Bill Gates
Net Worth - $59 billion

There's no doubt that Bill Gates is a genius. He built Microsoft with a mission and a dream. Gates left the ivy strewn walls of Harvard to start the Microsoft we know, and accuse of being a corporate monopoly, today. He never finished his degree, but he received an honorary degree, in 2007, from Harvard, and...

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The Fake Consultant over on the Uppity Wisconsin blog analyzes the power of the Internet in politics.

UMich blogger Lauren ponders if the male Brazilian wax is starting to catch on. (Answer: No. Dear God, no!)

Co-ed Magazine explores the life lessons one can gain at a strip club.

Los Angeles artist Hector Rios (no relation) painted a mural...

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NYLON is reporting that Gucci creative director, Frida Giannini, found indie band inspiration with MGMT. The Gucci Men's Spring 2009 weaved excessively ornate flourishes onto the blazers and colorful pants in the collection. The stimulus was seen not only in the way of the Brooklyn duo's (and Wesleyan alums) signature style, but also with the so...

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(They start 'em young here in Missour-a.)

Not only has the state of Missouri chosen winners every time in the last twelve elections, but this year's race comes down to who is "politically centered," and Mizzou is chock-full of independent voters.

Also, the youth voter turnout has tripled in the last eight years. With more than 60,000 student...

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We have all gone through different stages of our lives wishing we had known better. We can’t turn back time, but we can learn from our experiences.  Kudos to the following celebrities as they dish on what they wish they had known sooner.

* Adam Sandler: “I would probably just tell myself to relax and not be so anxious.” He offers this piece of...

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* “It’s absolutely outrageous,” a UCLA psychiatrist tells the NY Post about NBC’s new social experiment. “These are real human beings, not dolls…[In three days of filming] enough psychological damage could be done to affect them for the rest of their lives.”

* “There is a clique of professors in Hyde Park who are ‘alien’ to working-class inter...

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When I told my friend that I was writing this particular entry, he brought up how ironic it was that a blogger under the penname “anarchy” was writing about the 2008 elections.

But here it is.

A note before someone comments about how idiotic or wrong my choices are:

I definitely wouldn’t call myself a political expert, or even a political en...

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