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College Presidents Get a Pay Raise, Everyone Else Continues to Struggle

College Presidents Get a Pay Raise, Everyone Else Continues to Struggle

Damn the man. The economy is spirally out of control, student loans are hard to come by and financial aid is struggling, but college presidents are enjoying a nice little raise.
 

A survey by the Chronicle of Higher Education found that public schools raised their president’s pay by an average of 7.6 percent last year, bringing the median salar...

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How To: Make Tons of Money After College

How To: Make Tons of Money After College

Graduating this year? Without a career plan and worried that once mom and pops cut you off financially you'll be stuck shopping at Forever 21 and eating mac and cheese forever? Don't fret--thanks to cnn.com, you can know ahead of time which jobs will pay well above packaged foods needs. The following jobs all pay over $80,000 per year--and don't...

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Vanderbilt Students Face Off On Election Results...On Facebook, Of Course.

Vanderbilt Students Face Off On Election Results...On Facebook, Of Course.

The first thing I did upon witnessing last night's election results was call my mom and scream myself hoarse with my wonderfully democratic roommates.

 

The second thing I did was of course, check Facebook. Only half an hour after Obama's victory was announced, Vanderbilt students were celebrating, rejoicing, complaining and questioning via Face...

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Time Magazine Compares Vanderbilt to Hogwarts

Time Magazine Compares Vanderbilt to Hogwarts

According to Time Magazine, the similarities between our dear university and Harry Potter's alma mater are large in number: "An idyllic campus with kindly professors who head the dorms, a dining hall that's a social hub and a living room, interhouse rivalries and organized activities galore...and a Dumbledore-like dean."

 

The article goes on to...

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Joe The Plumber To Become A Country Music Star, Vanderbilt Exclaims "Stay Away From Nashville"

Joe The Plumber To Become A Country Music Star, Vanderbilt Exclaims "Stay Away From Nashville"

The real winner in this election cycle is no doubt Joe the Plumber. That guy went from nobody to celebrity faster than you can unclog a toilet.
 

Joe the Plumber, aka Samuel Wurzelbacher, burst onto the political scene when he pressed Barack Obama about his tax plan. McCain pounced and next thing you know, Joe was the main attraction of the thi...

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Carrie Underwood Maybe Dating Travis Stork, Vanderbilt U. Medical Center Resident, Even Though He Was on The Bachelor

Carrie Underwood Maybe Dating Travis Stork, Vanderbilt U. Medical Center Resident, Even Though He Was on The Bachelor

It must be in their genetic makeup, alongside the the DNA that makes them want to belt it out for Paula and Company on Fox: those American Idol ladies are all over the guys from The Bachelor. First, there was Jennifer Hudson and David Otunga, now it’s Carrie Underwood and Travis Stork. Media gossips (like CollegeOTR, apparently) are reporting th...

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Vanderbilt Homecoming Weekend Highs and Lows

Vanderbilt Homecoming Weekend Highs and Lows

High Points: Lupe Fiasco's set, the homecoming tailgate that ended 3 hours after the game did, Friday night frat parties

 

Low Points: Lil Wayne's set, a 10-7 loss to Duke (Duke?! How could we...), the hangover that came after the homecoming tailgate that ended 3 hours after the game did

Weekend College Football Round-up

Weekend College Football Round-up

This weekend's college football headlines from Bleacher Report.

 

Texas Tech beat A&M this weekend, but was their last second touchdown rubbing it in their opponents faces?

 

OSU absolutely demolished MSU this weekend, 45-7. They were expected to win, but not by such a devastating margin. What happened?

 

The Georgia-Vandy game wasn’t exactly pr...

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Regular Fellatio Decreases Chances of Breast Cancer, Study Finds

Regular Fellatio Decreases Chances of Breast Cancer, Study Finds

I have just received this information via anonymous tip, and am more than thrilled to share it with all you happy people about to depart on your fall break.

 

According to cnn.com, performing fellatio and swallowing actually reduces women's chances of breast cancer.

 

"Women who perform the act of fellatio and swallow semen on a regular basis, o...

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What Every SEC Fan Needs to Know: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

What Every SEC Fan Needs to Know: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

GeorgiaDawg is a writer for Bleacher Report where this post was originally published.

 

Last week we looked at each team in the SEC West. We discussed the fact that as a fan, sometimes we just cannot see everything about our own team. 

 

We need a “neutral” party to point out what is good, bad, and even ugly about the teams we love.

 

As I state...

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