A junior high school student in Chandler will have to sit out the entire semester after she and a few friends jotted down some plans about how to best murder their language arts teacher earlier this year.Some of the ideas that made the students’ list (which you can see below)…
The Maricopa County Community College District board is considering adding transgendered people to its list of groups protected from harassment.Arizona State University and the University of Arizona have included transgendered people in their anti-discrimination policies for years. Currently, the community colleges recognize things like race, religion, and sexual orientation in…
Governor Jan Brewer announced yesterday that she’s appointed Valley PR honcho/charter school advocate Jay Heiler to the Arizona Board of Regents to replace outgoing ABOR Chairman Fred DuVal.Heiler’s education background includes work with the Great Hearts Academies, a network of charter prep schools in Phoenix, and he serves as President…
Daniel Tosh is apparently in town to film an episode of his show, Tosh.0, after Arizona State University won his College Campus Invasion challenge — despite having never entered the contest.Since March, Tosh has been looking for the school with “the hottest cheerleaders or the best parties or the hottest…
Several Arizona public high schools will participate in a program this year that allows students to graduate from high school after only two years.The program, the Move On When Ready initiative, was passed by the Arizona Legislature last year. It would allow students to essentially test out of high school…
It appears that Arizona State University students are just drunk enough to somewhat impress the folks at the Princeton Review.ASU ranked number 17 this year in the publication’s list of top party schools in the nation, which is an improvement from last year’s ranking of… oh wait, the Sun Devils…
Tucked between bits about one of his interns eating his feces and a video where a pregnant porn star pukes after the “money shot,” comedian Daniel Tosh announced last night that Arizona State University has won his show’s College Campus Invasion challenge.Since March, Tosh has been looking for the school…
GQ recently released its guide to our nation’s “Ivoriest Towers of douchery”: its list of the “douchiest” colleges in the country.Unlike the magazine’s 2009 “Douchiest Colleges” rankings, neither Arizona State University or University of Phoenix On-line made the cut — likely because the magazine has since switched from a top…
GQ recently released its “heavily researched, possibly stereotypey” guide to our nation’s “Ivoriest Towers of douchery.” Unlike the magazine’s 2009 “Douchiest Colleges” rankings, neither Arizona State University or University of Phoenix On-line made the cut — likely because the magazine has since switched from a top 25 format to a…
A former teacher at a Mesa elementary school pleaded guilty today to charges that he attempted to molest a 7-year-old girl in the band room of the school where he worked and the girl was a student. Michael Lamonica, a former music teacher at Mesa’s Brinton Elementary School, pleaded guilty…
Six Prescott High School students were so excited to graduate that they didn’t bother with traditional graduation pranks like writing something in shaving cream on the front door of their school. Rather, they stole a car.Yavapai County sheriff’s deputies arrested the six soon-to-be grads after the “Pink Car,” which is…
wakemag.org Party poopers. Next time you’re partying at Arizona State University, consider Noah Frochtzwajg, ASU student and aspiring golfer. He was enjoying the company of friends at 2 a.m. on Sunday August 29, 2010, when Tempe police came knocking at his apartment. Frochtzwaig saw two officers and opened the door to…
Following our earlier post about a video making its rounds on the Interwebs this week, in which two Arizona State University wrestlers are seen attacking another student during the school’s annual “Undie Run,” the ASU police department got back to us and says it was just made aware of the…
Arizona State University’s annual “Undie Run” is all fun and games — until a guy gets knocked out by a couple of college wrestlers and somebody has the bright idea to post video of the assault on Yotube.The video has been making the rounds on the Internet the past few…
Apparently quite a bit. Participants in last night’s “undie run” caused enough of a “ruckus” to force police to pull the fire alarm at the school’s Memorial Union to get thousands of rowdy, scantily clad students to leave the building…
