Giuliani's Son Sues Duke in Golf Dismissal

(NEWSER) - Rudy Giuliani's son Andrew got a bad break in his lawsuit against the Duke golf team—the judge is a Caddyshack fan. The magistrate recommended that Giuliani's suit—he says he got kicked off the team unjustly—be dismissed, and he did so in a ruling filled with golf jokes and a reference to Bill Murray's legendary character in the movie, the Smoking Gun reports. More»

Lawsuit: Basketball errors were punished with belt

(NEWSER) - Three Jackson, Miss., high school students who say they were whipped with a weightlifting belt for "failing to run basketball plays correctly" are taking their coach to court. Murrah High School coach Marlon Dorsey says he did paddle the students, but he did it to "save these young men from the destruction of self," CNN reports. One of the beatings was captured on video. More»

Uncertain economy has schools, students hedging bets

(NEWSER) - The odds aren't looking good for the 3,382 high school seniors currently wait-listed by Duke—the college thinks it will probably end up taking only about 60 of them. Duke is far from the only college to dump record numbers of applicants into admissions purgatory this year, as economic uncertainty has both colleges and applicants hedging their bets, the New York Times reports. More»

From Brown to Bob Jones, 'what kind of douche do you want to be'?

(NEWSER) - In college, acting insufferable is pretty much a given. “The question for America's youth is: What kind of douche bag do you aspire to be?” asks GQ. The mag helpfully offers the top options.

1. Brown University: Peace Sign on My Mom's 7 Series Douches are limo liberals too good for grades.
2. Duke University: Original Douches. “Probably number one. But we'd rather not rank Duke number one at anything.”
3. Princeton University: Eating-Club Douches “invented affectations.”
4. Harvard University: Harvard Douches—need we say more?
5. Deep Springs College: Only Six People Know About It Douches inhabit a ranch near Death Valley.

Unable to find work, New Yorker wants her $70K back

(NEWSER) - After months of looking for work, fed up New Yorker Trina Thompson is suing her college for the $70,000 she spent on tuition. Monroe College's Office of Career Advancement hasn't done enough to help her find employment, the 27-year-old spring graduate claims in a suit filed in Bronx Supreme Court. More»