America’s Future Foundation is hosting it’s annual college blogger contest.  Here’s some details from their site:

“The purpose of the contest is to encourage original liberty-minded blogger journalism on college campuses and to identify young conservative and libertarian talent who wish to pursue careers as journalists and writers.

The contest is open to all graduate and undergraduate bloggers age 25 and younger. Ten finalists will be chosen at the end of the year, and the winning blog will be awarded a cash prize of $10,000 and be invited to be a panelist at an AFF Roundtable on higher education in Washington, D.C. Awards will be announced on April 7, 2009. Second place takes home $3,000, and third place takes homes $1,000. Our judges will also provide feedback to all of the finalists in order to improve their work.

For more details, rules, etc. check out the contest page here.

Application Deadline: December 31, 2008

According to Charles Murray, who writes at Cato Unbound:

“…the BA degree is the work of the devil. It wreaks harm on a majority of young people, is grotesquely inefficient as a source of information for employers, and is implicated in the emergence of a class-riven America.”

Read his entire provocative report here.

What would college life be without the porch couch?  Apparently the government of Lincoln, Nebraska thinks it would be better.  They’ve banned porch couches .