Education

Isn’t there some sort of joke about Arizona State University’s seemingly generous acceptance rate?It makes a warning to freshmen to avoid drinking paint seem fitting…

Congratulations to the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity at Arizona State University, which has just been named the “most out-of-control” frat in the United States of America.Rolling Stone magazine gave SAE (ΣΑΕ) the honor for its two high-profile incidents last year — the death of a pledge, and an extremely intoxicated…

The weekend before classes started at Arizona State University, a task force focused on alcohol-related crimes in Tempe arrested 371 people in just three days.In the first weekend after classes started, the same task force went out and nabbed 486 people in a three-day stretch, which seems to mean that…

It appears that there has been no shortage of alcohol-related high jinks in Tempe in advance of the new semester.Classes start today, and the Tempe Police Department has been running a “Safe and Sober” campaign, with an emphasis on alcohol-related crimes. The result: 371 arrests in three days…

The Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity at Arizona State University is beyond the point of being put on double secret probation.An ASU spokeswoman says the fraternity — which has been involved in a pair of high-profile, alcohol-related incidents over the past year — has had its status as a recognized fraternity…

Yet again, a body has been pulled from Tempe Town Lake.Gerrick Begay, a 21-year-old Tempe resident and former student at the nearby Arizona State University, was found floating in the lake around 5:30 a.m. yesterday.See also:-ASU Freshman Jack Culolias’ Death Plays Out Very Similar to 2011 Death-Body Found Near Tempe…

A 20-year-old Arizona State University student in the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity was dumped at a hospital by his “friends” after a tequila-drinking contest, which nearly killed the student, who had a .47 blood-alcohol level.Tempe Police Sergeant Michael Pooley tells New Times that the student, who was interviewed the next…

Arizona State University announced the new, new costume design for Sparky the Sun Devil that was voted on by fans, and the one that looks the least like a child predator is the costume they’re rolling with.Not surprisingly, fans picked the design that looks very similar to the one used…

Arizona State University has opened the voting process to replace the recently designed costume for Sparky the Sun Devil, and the four options for the new, new Sparky look far less likely to be behind the wheel of a windowless white van, telling children that they have candy and puppies…

Andrew Kent, who police say admitted to his frat friends and to the father of a victim that he threw a bottle of Everclear into a bonfire that burned two women at a party, pleaded not guilty this morning to throwing said booze into fire. The two women burned by…

Two women burned by a bottle of Everclear flung into a fire will have permanent scarring, and frat boy Andrew Kent, who is believed by police to be the tosser of said bottle, was noted in a police report as not displaying any remorse toward victims. Kent allegedly threw the…

Tempe police arrested ASU student Andrew Kent Monday after he allegedly tossed a bottle of liquor into a backyard bonfire, which exploded and burned two women. One of the victims was a 17-year-old girl and prospective student visiting ASU, scoping out the school to see if it was a place…

Believe it or not, the new version of Arizona State University’s Sparky mascot, which looks like Buzz Lightyear — if Buzz Lightyear looked like a registered sex offender with horns — didn’t go over too well with students and fans.Now, the University says it will allow the students and fans…

Joseluis Marquez was sentenced to life in prison, plus a few extra years, for the 2010 robbery and murder of 21-year-old Arizona State University student Kyleigh Sousa.Sousa was dragged by a car in an attempted robbery of her purse in an IHOP parking lot just south of the University’s Tempe…

Attention Arizona State University President Michael Crow: You may have gotten a letter from Republican Congressional Candidate Vernon Parker, bashing his opponent Kyrsten Sinema for calling ASU a “party school.”Did Parker write that letter in his University of Southern California shirt?See also:-Vernon Parker Tattles on Kyrsten Sinema to ASU President…

For some reason, the guy being carried by police officers in the photo above was walking around the University of Arizona’s library with a knife yesterday…

A Glendale couple is suing the Deer Valley Unified School District, claiming staff at the boy’s elementary school fed him sugar, and often kept him in a small, windowless room due to his behavior.The boy’s parents contend that the school kept giving their boy sugar — which the boy is…

After a 25-year run as one of the nation’s top party schools, Arizona State University’s party-school reputation is likely dead in the eyes of national party-analysts.Just a week after Newsweek gave ASU one of the school’s lowest party rankings of all-time at 24th in the nation, the just-released Princeton Review…

In 2002, Arizona State University was named Playboy’s top party school in the nation, dethroning Chico State — which held the top spot in the nation for 15 years after becoming the first party school crowned by Playboy.ASU’s reign among the party schools ended in 2006, when it dropped to…

The Arizona Legislature yesterday confirmed Governor Jan Brewer’s appointment of Valley PR honcho/charter school advocate Jay Heiler to the Arizona Board of Regents to replace outgoing ABOR Chairman Fred DuVal — and Arizona Democrats aren’t happy about it.”Arizona’s universities serve as an economic engine for our state,” Arizona Democratic Party…

According to a new survey, Tempe, the home of Arizona State University’s largest campus, is the second-worst college town in America — worse even than places like Waco, Texas, Ruston, Louisiana, and Poughkeepsie, New York.However, the survey was conducted by a group urging people to get an online education, rather…

The Chandler Unified School District decided yesterday to uphold a semester-long suspension for five eighth grade students who threatened to kill their teacher by — among other methods — setting her on fire, cutting out her tongue, drowning her, or running her over with a truck.See our post on the…