College Shorts Drug tests in Wisconsin and Shower Sex at Yale

Author: Ben Salkowe

University of Wisconsin to require drug testing

The University of Wisconsin-Stout will require all 100 of its Division III football players to undergo drug testing this spring for commonly abused drugs, and will randomly test 25 players for steroid use, the Associated Press (AP) reported last week.

"The point is to make sure that when athletes step on the field from here on in they will be drug free and everybody can be assured of that," University Spokesman Doug Mell told the AP.

The new policy came from a committee formed in December after police seized three bottles of liquid steroids and other drugs from the off-campus home of the football team's senior linebacker, according to the AP. The police later found more steroids and marijuana at the home of the team's junior linebacker. Another player who had left the team was arrested for selling cocaine.

All three students charged with drug abuse have pled not guilty, but the controversy has led to the resignation of the school's football coach and two of his assistants.

-The Associated Press


Shower sex at Yale raises voices and eyebrows

"Well THIS is the most awkward college-wide e-mail I've ever had to send," started a recent announcement sent to Yale students and obtained by IvyGate, an Ivy League news blog.

"Several times since the start of the spring term [students] have come across a couple having the time of their lives in a shower stall," wrote Jonathan Holloway, a Yale College master, after shower fun led to flooding in the dorm. "To the as yet unidentified couple, this may be pleasureable and exciting for you but it is a violation of community standards. Please stop."

Whether or not Yale was their inspiration, there were reports last week that Ivy League sex had entered a new dorm space: an e-mail published by IvyGate on Thursday chastised Brown freshmen for reports of kitchen sex.

"I have been made aware that there has been some activity taking place in Perkins' kitchens that is inappropriate for public spaces," wrote an unnamed graduate student to Brown's Perkins dormitory. "An appropriate place for certain activities would be your room with the door shut, at the discretion of your roommate."

-IvyGate.com


Pomona's growth plans spark heated controversy

Plans to expand Pomona College's student body have ignited a campus-wide debate, according to The Pomona Student Life. The proposal under discussion, which would require the construction of two new dorms and the hiring of new faculty, would expand Pomona by 10 percent to 1,650 students over the next four years.

Yet students who chose the Southern California college for its tight-knit campus community worry Pomona could be risking its distinctive feel.

"The small size of Pomona is part of its draw," Pomona senior Ben White told The Student Life. "The larger it gets, the more impersonal it gets."

A survey of 181 faculty members conducted by the student newspaper found only 29.3 percent of faculty "agreed" with the proposal, while 43.2 percent "disagreed."

The Pomona College Board of Trustees will continue to discuss the proposal. A decision is not expected before fall 2007.

-The Pomona Student Life