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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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Latest comment by Anonymous: Change will come only when everyone in drug policy reform finally understands we're getting the same verbal blowjob from Democrats that the religious right has been receiving

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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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Latest comment by Anonymous: they are good looking together on and off the ice.

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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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Latest comment by Anonymous: They had it easier than the average American by virtue of their Ivy League educations. One who can get into an Ivy League school can almost always secure a full ride at a lesser institution of higher learning.

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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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McCain's Acceptance Speech: Good, Bad, or Ugly?

McCain's Acceptance Speech: Good, Bad, or Ugly?

Last night John McCain accepted the republican nomination at the Republican National Convention. Now, we want to know, How did you feel about McCain's speech?

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Eli Broad Could Pay Your College Tuition Several Times, Gives $600 Million to Harvard and MIT Medical Research

Eli Broad Could Pay Your College Tuition Several Times, Gives $600 Million to Harvard and MIT Medical Research

There’s no such thing as a free lunch, but apparently there is such a thing as a free $600 million. In 2004, Eli Broad launched a joint initiative with Harvard and MIT to find solutions to genetically inherited disorders called the Broad Institute. Establishing the Broad Institute cost $100 million, but Broad contributed another $100 million aga...

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CSU Students Trash Talk At The DNC

CSU Students Trash Talk At The DNC

Inside the Pepsi Center, the DNC delegates are treated to inspiring speeches from important political leaders. Outside the Pepsi Center, Colorado State students are treated to piles and piles of garbage.
 

During the four-day convention, more than 460 student, staff and faculty volunteers sort through trash and separate the recyclable from the ...

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Scorpion + Spider = Camel Spider?

Scorpion + Spider = Camel Spider?

Calling all linguistics majors, WTF were they (they meaning whoever comes up with organism names) thinking when they named the camel spider? Neither a camel nor a spider, but a combination of a spider and a scorpion, the camel spider is also called the sun spider and the wind scorpion. If you want to be legit, call it a solpugid.

 

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Important Political Process Inconveniences College Students

Important Political Process Inconveniences College Students

With the Democratic National Convention in full swing, everyone’s focused on the politics. We’ve heard about the issues, the speeches and the rivalries.
 

But what about the really important stuff – like how does this momentous political event affect the area college students?
 

Don’t worry, U.S. News and World Report has got us covered. Accord...

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The Democratic National Convention Schedule

The Democratic National Convention Schedule

The Democratic National Convention, also known as Obamapalooza 2008, kicks off later today in Denver, Colorado, and the College Democrats of America are excited for what will be a week of democratic unity and Barack Obama loving.

 

For the uninitiated (i.e. the College Republicans), the convention is scheduled to run until Thursday when the part...

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Does ASU Hate Smart Black People?

Does ASU Hate Smart Black People?

Sure you’ve heard of students being expelled for plagiarism, but professors?

 

Dr. Theresa Cameron, the first African American woman to be awarded tenure at the Arizona State University’s College of Design, alleges that she was falsely accused of plagiarizing her syllabi, which led to the termination of her tenure and employment. She was fired b...

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Latest comment by Anonymous: I think you need all the facts. What is done for a white person and then a black women is fired for the same infraction. Get a grip. The staff voted unanimously that she should not loose her job. Dr.

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Video Essays Are Easier to Read

Video Essays Are Easier to Read

All summer, college admissions counselors have been reading admissions essay after admissions essay. There are loads of Mighty Ducks-like underdog stories, Pretty In Pink-like wrong side of the tracks kid makes it happen stories, and Save the Last Dance-like following the dream stories. Amongst the less narrative essays, there are explanations o...

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8 Great Stoner Movies: Pineapple Express Ed.

8 Great Stoner Movies: Pineapple Express Ed.

I can smell the sweet stench of cannabis already. It looks like Hollywood is going green, grass green that is. With the recent premiere of Pineapple Express, another movie has been added to the long list of stoner movies. Is it really that funny to watch tripped out belligerent fools as films' protagonists? Absolutely!

Here’s OTR’s comprehensi...

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Do Beer and College Sports Belong Together?

Do Beer and College Sports Belong Together?

NCAA claims their hands are tied. Despite pressure to ban beer ads during NCAA games, the organization has decided to let their current policy stand.
 

The NCAA was feeling the heat after college presidents called the beer ads during this year’s basketball tournament “embarrassingly prominent.”
 

But unsurprisingly (we are talking about more mo...

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