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Milk: It’s Good For You

When I was younger, I was told that I needed to drink milk each night with dinner. Apparently milk “does a body good” but why did I have to sit there each night with a glass of milk?!, I often thought. Well, as the years passed, I started to see many stars get involved with the milk campaign and don a white mustache to endorse milk. And, as it turns out, they’ll be influential in your college future!

A celebrity panel of milk mustache athletes, including Andy Roddick, Tony Hawk, Mia Hamm, and others will help select this year’s winners in the Scholar Athlete Milk Mustache of the Year (SAMMY) awards. The “got milk?” Campaign has partnered with USA Today to launch the SAMMY awards. In its eleventh year, the SAMMY contest continues to recognize those student athletes who have excellence in the complete package: academics, sports, community service, and leadership. Twenty-five students will be awarded $7,500 college scholarships at a special ceremony.

There were 56,000 applications for the SAMMY last year. This year’s deadline is at 11:59p.m. EST on Friday, March 7, 2008.

I may not drink milk with dinner every night anymore, but it certainly does more for us than just keep our bodies healthy!

Check out http://sammy.bodybymilk.com for contest rules and apps today!

-Amanda Fornecker

Add comment January 18th, 2008

Dorming with Style

As a recent university grad, I find that the images of dingy and disorganized dorms are still fresh in my mind. No matter what size the dorm room was, my pals all had the same problems: not enough space and way too much dirty laundry peeking out from under the bed.

Luckily for soon-to-be-undergrads like yourselves, designers are creating weird and wacky ways to make the most of your living space. Check out the WARDROM (pictured right) by Paula Studios, for instance. After a long day of lectures and study groups you and your roomie can come home and toss the day’s apparel at the WARDROM. You can use it to either keep your dirty laundry all in one place (kind of gross) or simply as an unusual coat rack (kind of neat!). Hang your favorite jackets and bags within easy reach and you’ll be ready to go even when you’re running late. And at the very least it’ll keep you from living in a sea of clothing for the next nine months.

Since there’s no word on the product actually being marketed in the U.S. you might want to make do with your own homemade WARDROM in the meantime, or you can check out some CollegeBound Network tips on organizing your space and creating an ultra hip dorm room in the process.

– Genevieve M. Blaber

Add comment January 18th, 2008