A look back at the week's wackiest stories

	Jerome Bettis is large and in charge. Paul Hawthorne/Getty Images

By Eric Horowitz

A school talent show turns ugly, a college football team earns a day off, Princeton gets radioactive, and MIT hackers are at it again. All this and more in this week's Campus Chronicles.

Steelers offensive coordinator Ken Whisenhunt has a bigger fan club than he thinks. Two high school friends, who are now students at George Washington and Pitt, are such big fans of Whisenhunt's trick plays that they have designed a top secret trick play and are on a quest to have the Steelers run it in a game. The students, who are filming a documentary about their campaign, have named the play "The Steal Phantom." If the students succeed in getting the Steelers to run their play, their next project will be designing a diet for former Steeler Jerome Bettis.

There are advantages to having a bad football team. After defeating their rival for the first time in 12 years, Lebanon Valley College students marched to the school president's house and asked for an extra day off to celebrate the victory. President Stephen MacDonald agreed to the students' request and canceled classes on the day before Thanksgiving. MacDonald also said that if the school's field hockey team makes the playoffs, everybody will graduate with honors.

There is more scientific evidence supporting the connection between nerds and Mexican food. The results of an online survey being used to choose the food at an MIT food court were distorted when a hacker cast 1,000 votes for Taco Bell. Interestingly enough, Pat Buchanan also received over 1,000 votes despite not even being a food.

A goat was found in an LSU frat house after police raided the house on the morning after the fraternity held initiation for its new members. The frat says the goat is their mascot and that it was their decoration for homecoming. Chicago Cubs fans are warning the goat's removal could curse the school with a 98 year championship drought, however LSU students maintain the Cubs' struggles are due to the fact that they stink, and not because of some crazy billy goat curse.

Preventing brawls is obviously not a talent of Southern Illinois students. Last week a school talent show erupted into a melee when an audience member who was offended by a performer's joke stormed the stage. Apparently the student is still a little bit sensitive about Britney and K-Fed's divorce.

Some Princeton student may have been exposed to a performance enhancing substance they cannot be tested for. Last week a radioactive leak was found in a Princeton building where 300 students, faculty and staff regularly work . Officials say that nobody was harmed and the health center is on the lookout for any students with "Incredible Hulk-like symptoms."

According to Columbus police, the celebration following Ohio State's victory over Michigan was relatively tame, paling in comparison to the chaos that ensued after the Buckeye's victory in 2002. Despite over 100,000 fans pouring into the street, there were only around 40 arrests and 40 fires lit. One of the few problems that did arise was that people with cell phones had trouble making or receiving calls. It was later revealed that the problems were a direct result of the "Can you hear me now?" guy's arrest for drunken and disorderly conduct.

In other news ... It appears that Duke basketball discriminates ... The new Central Florida football stadium will be a dry one ... An Ole Miss professor gets arrested to raise money ... Campus police are going undercover to catch backpack thieves ... The UCLA student who was brutally tasered is suing the police.

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