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The Twelve Best Strange, Absurd, Creative College Flash Mobs Ever

The Twelve Best Strange, Absurd, Creative College Flash Mobs Ever

While drinking is undeniably the #1 college pastime, there are still plenty of other things college students do to avoid studying, reading or writing.

 

Today, we took a look at a longtime favorite of mine: the flash mob.

 

For the uninitiated, a flash mob is a group of people who gather at a specific location at a predetermined time and perform...

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Marijuana Supporters: "Obama's Website Should Be Called Same.Gov"

Marijuana Supporters: "Obama's Website Should Be Called Same.Gov"

The fine hippies over at StopTheDrugWar.org are furious with President-elect Barack Obama.

 

Why? Because he doesn’t plan to legalize marijuana in the foreseeable future—if ever.

 

Their red-eyed outrage began with Obama’s homepage, Change.gov, which solicited questions from Obama supporters and determined the popularity of each one based on the...

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Keauna McClaughlin and Colorado's Rockne Brubaker Win Medals, Get Famous

Keauna McClaughlin and Colorado's Rockne Brubaker Win Medals, Get Famous

Recently Keauna McLaughlin and University of Colorado student Rockne Brubaker have been making headlines for their figure skating victories. The American team is coached by Dalilah Sappenfield and MCLaughlin’s mom Lei’lna. Mostly recently, they garnered attention for their performance at Skate Canada, for which they won silver medals.


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CU Boulder Divides and Conquers (Waste at Football Games)

CU Boulder Divides and Conquers (Waste at Football Games)

Perhaps your idea of a football fan is a gun-toting, beer-guzzling, nacho-eating republican slob, and while that may be true some of the time, CU Boulder is doing its best to change that stereotype. Now football fans attending Colorado Buffaloes games will find compost and recyclables containers rather than trash barrels, as the school tackles a...

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Man Arrested for Car Crash That Killed 18-Year-Old ASU Student

Man Arrested for Car Crash That Killed 18-Year-Old ASU Student

Last night a man was arrested for his involvement in a car crash which killed an eighteen-year-old Arizona State University student, Nora Risha. Risha’s car was hit by another car which had run a red light, and two other teenagers were gravely injured.


According to KOLD News:

A man has been arrested in connection with a four-vehicle accident t...

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Michelle Obama Speaks At CU Boulder, Reminds Voters That She Had Student Loans Too

Michelle Obama Speaks At CU Boulder, Reminds Voters That She Had Student Loans Too

Yesterday Michelle Obama spoke at UC Boulder and urged the crowd at Farrand Field to vote (preferably for Barack Obama) in the presidential election. Appealing to the concerns of working families and students, she addressed personal hardship in the lives of herself and her husband. After the speech, Colorado resident Charles Garcia told the Rock...

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UC Boulder Gives Students "Smart Party" Tips, CollegeOTR Scratches Its Proverbial Head

UC Boulder Gives Students "Smart Party" Tips, CollegeOTR Scratches Its Proverbial Head

UC Boulder is joining forces with city officials to distribute information on “smart party” tips. Smart party? Can we say “oxymoron”?

  

To be fair, perhaps at Boulder they haven’t got a copywriter, but “smart party” is about as a appealing as making out with Adnad Ghalib, the former crazy and histrionic boyfriend (well, one of them) of Britney ...

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Colorado Buffaloes Take Down WVU Mountaineers 17-14, WVU on Losing Streak

Colorado Buffaloes Take Down WVU Mountaineers 17-14, WVU on Losing Streak

The WVU-Colorado game last night was a huge disappointment for WVU football fans. Hoping to redeem themselves after getting crushed by East Carolina last week, the Mountaineers fell short, losing their second game of three this season.

 

The Associated Press reports:

Aric Goodman made a 25-yard field goal in overtime to give Colorado a 17-14 vi...

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Refs Have Feelings Too: The Ed Hochuli Email That Will Break Your Heart

Refs Have Feelings Too: The Ed Hochuli Email That Will Break Your Heart

I'm all about hating the ref as much as the next guy, but I actually feel bad for 19-year veteran Ed Hochuli. He recently blew a whistle too enthusiastically on a fumble during a San Diego Chargers/Denver Broncos game. The call was blatantly wrong and it ended up costing San Diego the game. Since then, Ed's been flooded with vicious hate email f...

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Don Gorske Loves the Sauce-- the Special Sauce

Don Gorske Loves the Sauce-- the Special Sauce

The stereotypical college student subsists on Ramen Noodles, Kraft Macaroni and Cheese, and fast food. Now, Don Gorske, a McDonalds fanatic, is publishing a book covering his McDonalds exploits. Gorske was featured in the documentary film Super Size Me, in which he admitted that once when paid $5 to eat a Whopper, he spent his winnings to buy a ...

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