By Matthew Waxman

Hot: The BC
The BC, a web-based spoof on The OC, created by Boston College students Joe Sabia and Sherwood Tondorf, was profiled by The New York Times Iast week. The four episodes that have been released so far chronicle a troubled Boston University student from the wrong side of the subway tracks who is taken in and mentored by the Chestnut Hill community. Earlier this year, a music video promoting the show was played on the Jumbotron of the BC-Duke basketball game, and last month, the show's creators/actors toured the OC set and met their OC counterparts.

Not: The BU
Before there was The BC, there was The BU, an OC knockoff that parodied life in Malibu. The shows creators, Akiva Schaffer, Andy Samberg and Jorma Taccone, better known as the guys behind the SNL Narnia rap video released the following statement about their pet project: "The last three of the eleven episodes were produced by different Channel 101 creators as the dying franchise was passed like a hot potato." R.I.P. Frazzles, the talking squirrel.

Hot: Pensacola Christian regulations
An expose about the strict rules at Pensacola Christian College was printed last week in The Chronicle of Higher Education. In the article, it was reported that students were disciplined for infractions such as watching movies, playing video games, listening to non-classical, non-Christian music, watching television that wasn't the 6 o'clock news, and engaging in "optical intercourse" -- an act known on campus as "making eye babies."

Not: Georgia tailgating regulations
Starting next season, in an attempt to make the Bulldogs football game day experience more wholesome, the fun police will prohibit tailgaters from setting up shop before 7 a.m. on Saturdays and from hooking up unauthorized electric and cable TVs and satellites.

Hot: Kansas State basketball
Kansas may have been the hottest team entering the NCAA tournament and Wichita State survived the longest, but Kansas State is the state's hottest basketball property. According to Rivals.com, with Bob Huggins on the scene, K-State is being mentioned as a possible destination for the country's three top- rated high school juniors: O.J. Mayo, Bill Walker and Michael Beasley -- the latter saying that K-State is now his top choice. Said one scout who'd seen Beasley play, "He played well, but coach Huggins will bring the killer instinct out of him."

Not: Virginia Tech decor
Virginia Tech and the architectural firm Balzer and Associates have teamed up to develop "the first-ever line of collegiate-licensed home plans" next month. Hokey Hokies will be able to outfit everything from "individual rooms or patios, to outdoor gazebos, to small and large scale homes that incorporate the characteristic 'Collegiate Gothic' architectural elements found on most Virginia Tech buildings." Burping, scratching, farting fraternity guy on the couch not included.