College Students Learn Meaning of Facebook Withdrawal

Facebook Attributes Outage to Technical Glitch

By Patrick W. Connelly
Co-Editor, The Frat Boy News

College students across the nation had to deal with a devastating loss Tuesday as Facebook was forced to shutdown all operations of the social networking Web site to repair a technical glitch.

Many woke up Tuesday morning to find they could read messages in other user's inboxes on the site. After realizing the problem, Facebook immediately shutdown user access to the site's tools in an attempt to fix what they called a glitch in its system.

"This morning, we temporarily took down the Facebook site to fix a bug we identified earlier today," a statement from the company said Tuesday.

"This was not the result of a security breach. Specifically, the bug caused some third-party proxy servers to cache otherwise inaccessible content. The result was that an isolated group of users could see some pages that were not intended for them. The site has now been restored and we apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused."

Early Wednesday morning, the site remained inaccessible in some parts of the country, with a "We're upgrading" message displayed on its homepage.

'Robot Chicken' May Have Provoked Iota Phi Theta President to Threaten Massacre

Frat Adviser: Cartoon May Have Prompted Threat

An episode of Cartoon Network's 'Robot Chicken' may have provoked the president of Iota Phi Theta's chapter at Southern Illinois University in Edwardsville to threaten a massacre similar to that of Virginia Tech's at the campus, the fraternity's adviser told police.

Olutosin O. Oduwole, the fraternity's president, was charged by police and is being held in jail after failing to post $1,000,000 bond. Inside his car, police found handwritten threats of violence unless specific conditions were met, police said.

According to police, Oduwole demanded money be sent to his PayPal account. In the note, police said he wrote "if this account doesn't reach $50,000 in the next 7 days then a murderous rampage similar to the VT shooting will occur at another highly populated university. THIS IS NOT A JOKE!"

In a 'Robot Chicken' episode, a gun is held to the head of an animated bunny rabbit and demanded to give money, which is where the adviser said Oduwole got the idea.

Police said that Oduwole had earlier this month purchased three semi-automatic handguns online, as well as a fourth semi-automatic weapon, an uzi-type firearm.

Oduwole also has aspirations of becoming a rapper, the adviser told police.

"He really wanted to get involved in the hip-hop industry, but I wanted him to do it the right way," the adviser said.

Stolen Oregon State Delta Chi Statue Still Missing

Thieves Lift Oregon Frat House's Bronze Statue

A statue stolen from Oregon State University's Delta Chi house is still missing, more than three weeks after it was reported missing.

Brothers of the fraternity woke shortly after a 100-pound statue of their unofficial mascot, "The God of Fire," was stolen from their house earlier this month.

Brothers said they believe that someone came into their house through an open window and left carrying the heavy statue.

The statue was donated to the chapter in 1946 and brothers say its worth anywhere from $100,000 to $250,000. Their insurance company is not looking to prosecute the suspects but do hope someone returns it.

Lehigh Student Shot in the Head

Student Shot in Head During Noise Dispute

A Lehigh University male student was shot in the head by a man walking past his house who said he was being too loud, police said.

Michael Ritter, 22, was shot in the forehead by one of three men walking past his house early Sunday morning and rushed to the hospital.

One of his roommates said he had knock the gun from the man's hand before he ran off.

Heisman Worthy Quarterback Puts Hawaii ahead of Preseason WAC Pack

Wednesday's Frat Boy News Daily Sports Page

University of Hawaii (compiled by KITV)

The University of Hawaii football team has been named the favorite in the 2007 Western Athletic Conference football media poll released on Monday.

The Warriors were 11-3 last year and led the nation in scoring offense, passing offense and total offense. UH finished the season with a 41-24 win over Arizona State at the Sheraton Hawaii Bowl.

Five-time defending WAC champion Boise State was chosen as the runner-up by four votes in the media poll and three votes shy of No. 1 in the coaches poll.

Boise was the only team in the nation to go undefeated last season. The Broncos capped off the season with a 43-42 victory in the Tostitos Fiesta Bowl against Oklahoma in overtime.

UH Quarterback Colt Brennan was voted preseason offensive player of the year for the second straight year. He is considered a contender for the Heisman Trophy.

Paris Hilton Denies Smoking Pot

Wednesday's Frat Boy News Pause for the Cause (compiled by SFGate.com)

Paris Hilton has slammed reports she was smoking marijuana at a Hollywood nightclub with her Cisco Adler on Wednesday morning.

Us Weekly magazine reported partygoers claimed Hilton and Whitestarr frontman Adler were spotted smoking weed and kissing at Guy's Nightclub.

However, Hilton's representative Michael Sitrick says, "Paris absolutely did not smoke pot Tuesday night or Wednesday morning, as I understand was reported. That report is false."

When asked about her relationship to Adler, Sitrick adds, "She was with Cisco Tuesday night/Wednesday morning."

Following her release from jail last month for violating her probation from a drunk-driving arrest, Hilton appeared on Larry King's CNN show to declare she had never taken drugs in her life.

Man with Mouthful of Weed Pulled Over near Arizona State

The Frat Boy News daily campus police report for Wednesday:

Arizona State University (compiled by Jeff Mitchell, Web Devil)
July 21 - A 46-year-old Phoenix man was arrested on charges of reckless driving, failing to yield to police and possession of marijuana.

The man was driving recklessly on the westbound I-10 and weaving in and out of traffic, nearly colliding with other drivers, police reported. He allegedly failed to yield to police lights and sirens and reportedly drove nearly 3/4 of a mile with police behind him.

When stopped and approached by police, his mouth reportedly was packed full of marijuana.

July 25 - A 23-year-old female ASU student reported her laptop was stolen in the afternoon from the library. She reportedly was studying in a study room on the second floor and left the room for a few minutes to use the restroom.

When she returned to the room, her laptop was gone, according to the police report.
A library worker noticed that a man between the ages of 25 and 30 years old — wearing a dark-colored shirt and shorts — was walking around the area and did not appear to be a student, police reported.

The worker reportedly said the man was not seen carrying anything, and after a security check of the library, he was not found, the report stated. The value of the missing laptop is about $1,100.

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