Marquette University Advances to NCAA Sweet Sixteen

The Marquette University men’s basketball team defeated Syracuse 66-62 Sunday night to advance to the Sweet Sixteen in the 2011 NCAA men’s basketball tournament. Darius Johnson-Odom’s three-pointer with 27 seconds left snapped a tie. The Golden Eagles will play the University of North Carolina Friday, March 25, at the Prudential Center in Newark.

The women’s team came from behind to beat Texas 68-65 Saturday and will play Tennessee in the second round of the NCAA tournament Monday night. Tatiyiana McMorris hit a three-point shot in the final 10 seconds for the win.

Drag Queen takes Homecoming Queen Crown

In an 'anything's possible in America' moment, a George Mason University student has become what the nations first legitimate drag prom queen. Ryan Allen an openly gay student at the University decided to take a shot at being prom queen on a lark; not taking the entry serious.

In fact Ryan entered under his drag queen persona Reann Ballslee (an obvious play on words). What Ryan didn't take fully into account was the level of diversity the school embodied.



The George Mason Senior basked in the honor glowingly "I was very touched by how Mason was so supportive through the whole process of allowing a boy in a dress to run for homecoming queen. I feel like the win is bigger than me. It says a lot about Mason and the student body. it says a lot about the campus that not only do we have diversity but we celebrate it." At worst even the more conservative population had nothing more negative to say other than, "I just think it's kind of silly." And who said that? The school's College Republican's representative Alyssa Cordova.

So really have we seen it all here in America? The lack of commotion or controversy over this news seems to indicate that there is very little left in the world to surprise us. I think at this point it would take space aliens landing (in America of course) to really make news in this era.