This edition of The Offbeat Beat brings you news fit to print on college campuses - a botched Christmas tree snatching from The Daily Athenaeum, voting the hottest teacher from The Oracle and a $40k price tag for a butterfly name from The Independent Florida Alligator.

A fair amount of energy was spent last week on animal endeavors. Enthusiastic fans lobbied for a live elephant in a story from The Crimson White, a mouse sighting had potentially deadly consequences from The Daily Utah Chronicle and the idea of blending bears and hookahs from The Daily Gamecock.

While some tackled the wild, others focused on the human body. Brown U. students stripped for cash according to The Brown Daily Herald, a Texas A&M alum makes the record books with his hair in a story by The Battalion and curvy equals intelligence in The Daily Collegian.

And finally, the story about an underwear thief that stood alone in the category of garment grabbing from The Daily Pennsylvanian.