Thrifty Terps

The Diamondback
University of Maryland

Even with back-to-back Final Fours, an ACC championship and an NCAA national championship, University of Maryland students are not grabbing tickets to this weekend's highly anticipated ACC men's basketball tournament.

Students purchased only eight tickets to the March 13-16 tournament out of an allotted 240. The remaining tickets were sold to the general public. Students purchased just 12 tickets last year. With tickets for the first two rounds of next week's NCAA tournament going on sale Sunday night, officials are hoping for more student interest.

Athletic department officials said they do not think the excitement level surrounding this year's team is down from last year. They said they believe NCAA tournament tickets ÷ depending on where the Terps are sent ÷ will be more appealing to student fans than ACC tournament tickets.

Bad Broadcast

Badger Herald
University of Wisconsin

A student at the University of Wisconsin has been accused of setting up a Web cam in his dorm room and broadcasting a sexual encounter between him and his underage girlfriend live via the Internet

The 18-year-old UW student had his computer equipment and several photographs seized from his dorm room by police. His 15-year-old girlfriend had similar items taken from her home.

According to search warrants, the girl's mother is also under investigation by police for allegedly taking nude photographs of the couple. The 18-year-old UW student admitted to investigators that his girlfriend's stepmother had allegedly engaged in these acts.

Brotherly Body

Daily Evergreen
Washington State University

Washington State University Phi Delta Theta president Shawn Noble received a surprise when he returned home to find a human skull next to the front door of his chapter house late Saturday night.

The skull was decorated with Washington State University athletic score dates going back as far as 1934 and the words "gruesome Gertie."

Noble said he thinks the skull was delivered by someone who was unfamiliar with the Greek system and was trying to return it to its owners. The skull was decorated with the name of another fraternity, Phi Kappa Tau.

The skull was generally intact, but the lower jaw was not connected. It was turned over to the Whitman County coroner.