5,057 janitors have PhD's, doctorates, and professional degrees says the Bureau of Labor Statistics, which estimates 17 million Americans have college degrees they don't need for their jobs. They have great opinions about Chekhov's oeuvre, though. [via]

In the future, credit cards will be funner: they'll have buttons and batteries and "tiny lights" and all the bloopity bleep-bloop that you, the consumers, love. It will be that much more enjoyable to pay off your crushing college debt.

As a student at Princeton University, the son of California gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman—one of the school's most celebrated donors—was accused of sexually assaulting a classmate. This is the story of the explosive accusation and its quiet aftermath.

A close study of media reports and peer-reviewed studies reveals that there are only three kinds of college students left in America: the snobs; the dropouts; and the cheaters. These are their stories.

Facebook investor Peter Thiel is planning to give college students $100,000 each to drop out and launch startups. The editor of Slate is pretty disgusted with the concept. This idea will destroy "white boys" and "middle class values!"

Ole Miss retired its Confederate soldier mascot, 'Colonel Reb.' because it's 2010. In a highly emotional vote, students have picked "Rebel Black Bear," as their new mascot. So now it's a bear fighting for the right to own slaves?

Last Saturday night, there was an off-campus party at Northwestern University. A big one! So big that the neighbors complained to the school about students pissing, throwing up, having sex, and "hollering about "Bl** J*bs." The Dean is apoplectic.

A grad student at the University of Louisville College of Education was in a meeting with five faculty members yesterday when she pulled a loaded gun out of her purse and said, "I guess this is it."

Columbia is America's "most sexually healthy" university. All virgins. Kidding! Least healthy: University of Idaho. Sad.

We attended many ragers during our time at Large Midwestern University, but this is next-level. Three University of Wisconsin students have been fined $86,000 for a house party they threw one fateful game day.

Philip Calderon, the 37-year-old arrested for falsifying his age and impersonating a student at Binghamton University, pleaded guilty to raping a man under the age of 21 in 2008. Then he moved to Binghamton and joined the gay student group.

Phillip Calderon, 37, was escorted off the campus of Binghamton University in upstate New York last Wednesday for pretending he was an undergraduate student at the university. Was this all a ploy to get close to gay students?

With the Tyler Clementi suicide at Rutgers and the recent spate of gay teen suicides in the news, many people are wondering what colleges are safe for gay teens. Here's a guide to 10 of the best.

Old technologies can be so quaint, can't they? In the right context, they can also be used for great comic effect, exemplified by this student who brought a typewriter to class to take notes.

Police in New Haven, Connecticut have launched a program called "Operation Nightlife" in order to crack down on violence at nightclubs. Armed with assault rifles, last night they raided a Yale party and tasered a student for being "uncooperative."

Andrew Shirvell, the assistant attorney general in Michigan who moonlights as a creepy blogger dedicated to harassing a gay student-body president, has taken personal leave and will face a disciplinary hearing when he returns. His blog's private now, too! Sad.

Cecilia Chang, the former dean of the Institute of Asian Studies at St. John's University, is a terrible person. She stands accused of embezzling $1 million from her school. Also: forcing scholarship students to be her servants. Positively Dickensian!

Police believe they may have found the body of Tyler Clementi, the Rutgers student who jumped to his death after a roommate spied on him having gay sex. Meanwhile, some Rutgers students are saying Clementi's roommate's actions were misinterpreted.

For months, Andrew Shirvell, an assistant attorney general for Michigan, has been writing the blog "Chris Armstrong Watch," devoted to attacking the University of Michigan's gay student assembly president with homophobic and other horrible slurs. What is wrong with him?

Dharun Ravi and Molly Wei, both 18, have been charged with planting a webcam in a Rutgers dorm and broadcasting a classmate's sexual encounter. The classmate is believed to have committed suicide. Here's what Dharun did, step by step.