Officials said the program provided a safe environment in which to get a taste of street life, and that nobody had been hurt in the 20-odd years of the program’s existence.

The proposed University City “Undie Run” has been changed to a “bathing suit run” with a new route after Drexel University and City of Philadelphia officials declined to support the original concept, event organizers said.

The top 50 rankings were determined partly by “the attractiveness of cheerleaders, the locations of the schools (the sunnier the better — hot girls gravitate towards warm weather), and the popularity of tailgating/drinking/partying,” as well as “thousands of pictures,” but final decision came “mostly from the gut,” according to the Web site.

Swarms of termites are breeding paranoia in the Davidson Residence Halls on Busch Campus. On some nights depending on the weather, Rutgers College junior Shaneze Gayle said she shines a flashlight in her room to see if insects are teeming from ventilation ducts and holes in the wall before going inside.

Two crocodiles living in U. Miami’s Lake Osceola have been making unusually bold appearances, including emerging out of the water, occasionally on pedestrian walkways. Last February, a crocodile took an evening stroll on a university sidewalk before engaging in a violent confrontation with another crocodile.

The Colbert Nation has become the Colbert Campus, as Stephen Colbert, the Emmy award-winning comedy host, has descended upon the University of Pennsylvania’s Zellerbach Theatre for the week.