You've probably wondered, at some point or another, what are America's 25 douchiest colleges?

GQ supplies the answers in an annoying slide-show format that nonetheless contains some gems (e.g. Princeton, No. 4: "Favorite pickup lines: 'Hi. My father invaded Cuba,'" and Brown, No.  1: "Affectations: A belief that grades, majors, and course requirements are just another form of cultural hegemony; using the word hegemony").

Two years after Southeast Missouri State University suspended the charter of its Zeta Phi Beta sorority chapter for forcing a pledge to eat garbage, Colorado State University has ousted its own Zeta Phi Beta chapter for -- among other activities -- making pledges eat cat food, the Denver Post reports.

A new TV series about what it’s like to be a community-college student will make its debut next month on NBC. It will tackle serious topics like academic preparedness and financial aid.

Wait … strike that. It’s a comedy featuring Chevy Chase in a turtleneck.

The show is called Community, and judging from the online clips, it may not offer the most sensitive portrayal of our nation’s community colleges. It may also not be particularly funny.

If you like your college-themed comedy delivered with a tad more subtlety and a lot less Chevy Chase, check out the underappreciated, Web-only mockumentary Dorm Life.

Members of the University of Florida's bat commuity were in mourning this week after some 80 of their number were crushed to death in the collapse of their overcrowded residence there.

The bathouse was built in 1991, roughly the same year that the members of this year's entering freshman class were born, and university officials said the combined weight of the bats and years' worth of their urine brought the plywood roosts in their popular hangout tumbling down.

The collapse occurred at a particularly inopportune time: move-in week at the campus dormitories. With as many as 100,000 of the winged mammals left flapping about homeless, university officials are concerned that buildings and other crevices around the campus will be invaded.

The university has good reason to accommodate the bats, says Kenneth V. Glover, pest management coordinator. They devour a collective 200 pounds of...

The best college sports mascots and logos strike fear into the hearts of competitors, but Nicholls State University has managed to terrify even its own alumni with its revamped logo.

"It looked like a Nazi soldier -- a very angry Nazi soldier," Hollie Garrison, a Nicholls alumna, told the New Orleans Times-Picayune. "My jaw dropped. I was speechless. I kind of thought it was a joke."

Let's hope the controversy has settled by next week, when Nicholls State unveils the new uniform of its mascot, Col. Tillou, named for the former Louisiana governor and Confederate officer Francis Redding Tillou Nicholls.

You thought your home needed a sunroom or perhaps a larger garage. Sorry, grasshopper. A new bathroom is the key to true inner happiness.

When someone told us that U.S. News & World Report's Web site had a countdown clock (above) ticking off the days, hours, minutes, and seconds till the release of "America's Best Colleges 2009," all we could think was, Wouldn't it be fabulous if someone managed to suspend the time at .01 seconds? Alas, countdown clocks stop only in the movies, which led us to speculate on what will happen in the minutes after this year's U.S. News rankings are released:

Hebrew University of Jersualem has apologized for saying that a donor who bequeathed it more than $100,000 was a homeless woman in New York, the Daily News reports. Rather, Ida Fischer was an Austrian Jewish refugee who fled Vienna with her mother in 1938 after the Nazis killed her father.

Newspapers around the world had initially quoted a Hebrew University spokesman as saying that the late donor had lived out of a shopping cart in Manhattan. In its article last week, The Jerusalem Post helpfully showed what a homeless person might look like, had the donor actually been homeless.

Terribly sorry about that, Ms. Fischer. Rest in peace.

Call it a scholarly "Island of Misfit Toys": Rejecta Mathematica is an open-access online journal that publishes mathematical papers that have been rejected by others. Rejecta's motto is caveat emptor, which is to say that the journal has no technical peer-review process.

As The Economist notes in its article on the journal, there are plenty of examples of scholars who have suffered rejection, only to go on to become giants in their field. (OK, two.) Nonetheless, if you have lots of free time on your hands, by all means, check out the inaugural issue.

And if deciphering mathematical formulae isn't your thing, stand by: Rejecta says it may open the floodgates to other disciplines. Prospective franchisees are invited to contact the journal.

Next up: Rejecta Rejecta, a journal for articles too flawed for Rejects Mathematica, printed on single-ply toilet paper.

Harvard University has licensed a preppy new menswear line called Harvard Yard.

I say, anyone for a polo match?