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As New Year's Resolutions pour in, many of us are trying to get back into shape and get bathing-suit worthy by the summer. There are all kinds of fads out there, from the cabbage soup diet to the no-carb diet. Does it all work? Is any of it real? Newsweek gives us a little help by letting us know the six WORST dieting ideas out there.
1) Fat-...
Ever wonder how the BCS rankings are chosen? Numbers, difficulty of schedule... it rarely ever seems to make sense.
Well, the guys over at Global Sports Fraternity seem to have some ideas about how this years "BCS champion" was chosen. With all the debate over what happened, and the fact that USC was a) not higher and b) stuck playing a team...
You can take the frat boy out of the frat, but you can never take the frat out of the frat boy. Here are the 10 celebrities who would make great frat brothers:
Will Ferrell
As he proved in Old School, Ferrell is the ultimate frat brother. On his frat resume he can also list that he was a member of Delta Tau Delta at USC
John Belushi
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The unsuspecting ESPN sportscaster never saw it coming. It was a shimmy-shake attack by USC linebacker Rey Maualuga as he walked off the field. As a Los Angeles Times Blog says, Maualuga is "the closest thing college football has to Chuck Norris." And you can't deny Chuck Norris a little dance here or there.
As New Year's Eve approaches, sh*t's gonna get crazy. We all know this. Whether you're at a sweet party in Hollywood scoring in on your alcohol ticket, or you're downing those tiny glasses of champagne at a family party to--well, deal with being with your family, alcohol consumption certainly rises at the end of the year.
In an effort to keep...
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...
Facebook is truly as dangerous as we think. And it seems that no one is safe.
Jon Favreau, the 27-year-old Holy Cross alum hired to be Obama's director of Speech Writing, just got caught groping a Hillary Clinton cut out at a party, the Washington Post reports.
An administration that calls itself "No Drama Obama," has found a little bump o...
It seems it doesn't get any easier for the college student.
Researchers from Columbia University reported that 1 in 5 students has some kind of a personality disorder or problem, MSNBC reports. The study, praised by experts for its scope and focus (specifically on young adults ages 19-25), also said that less than 25% obtain some kind of help...
USC football coach Pete Carroll is sticking it to the NCAA in the name of tradition by opting to dress his players in their home jerseys when they play UCLA this weekend. NCAA regulations do not allow wearing home jerseys at away games, but what can we say? Old Petey is a rogue!
According to Rivals.com:
Monday, USC coach Pete Carroll told the...
Yes, you saw correctly. What at first appears to be a giant meteor appears to collide with something...else...in the sky. While news sources are claiming it was just a meteor, some locals are not so sure. Check out the video and decide for yourself.
After a long and torturous absence, Ainsley Earhardt, the sole reason to tune into Fox News in the mornings, is finally back where she belongs: sitting alongside Steve Doocy and Brian Kilmeade on Fox & Friends.
The weekday mornings—nay, broadcast journalism in its entirety is saved, everyone!
For the uninitiated, Ainsely joined Fox News last...
Who knew students could care so much?
When Berklee College of music students found out two of the professors, Jetro da Silva and Donna McElroy, had applied to perform at the presidential Inauguration of Barack Obama, they decided to lend a hand, MarketWatch reports.
The students found a video of their professors performing "America the Beau...
In a world where we rejoice that gas is under $2, where we rejoice that we can even build houses and that the stock market hasn't done the-Black-Friday thing, it's still looking like college students don't have much happiness to hang their hat on.
BizJournal reports that 4 out of 5 college graduates and seniors looking for jobs have been unsu...
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...
Oregon State may have its first Rose Bowl bid in over thirty years. Though still three games away, it’s the closest the Oregon State Beavers have come in a long while.
The International Herald Tribune reports:
Oregon State is three victories away from securing its first Rose Bowl bid since 1965 — and the Beavers really don't want to talk about...
The California Poet Laureate has been announced, and the position will be filled by a USC English professor Carol Muske-Dukes. Dukes will be given the Sisyphean task of promoting poetry to the California public, for which she will earn a whole $10,000 for two years of work.
According to the San Jose Mercury News:
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger ...
Talk about being ungraceful.
Republican Carol Elliott lost her bid for her fourth term as country treasurer for Grafton County, MSNBC and The Dartmouth reports. What is remarkable is that she lost to a 20-year-old junior at Dartmouth from Big Sky, Montana. Vanessa Sievers, who is set to graduate with a degree in geography and history in 2010, ...
"Gentle," "caring," and "thoughtful" are not usually words we associate with nuclear science. They are all definitely words, though, that are associated with James Warf, a chemistry professor at USC. Warf passed away in his Silverlake home on Friday, after a long battle with spinal cancer, the Daily Trojan reports. He was 91.
Warf definitely...
Last night, Playboy Playmate Kelly Carrington (Miss October 2008) appeared at the USC Marshall School of Business for a screening of the new Playboy series called Interns. Much like The Hills, Interns will follow interns at the office— except they’ll be at Playboy, not Teen Vogue.
According to COED:
Tonight, November 10th at 5:30PM PST Playb...
USC fans, have heart. The Trojans still have a fighting shot in the BCS says USC football coach Pete Carroll. The team is currently ranked sixth, but it’s not over till the fat lady sings the last football has been slung.
The Daily Breeze reports:
For a guy who says he never cares about the BCS rankings, USC coach Pete Carroll was quick to poi...
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