Remember when the Daily Princetonian ruined kittens for an entire generation of Ivy Leaguers? Yale Daily News (and the people they write about) just did that for papayas:

Students who walked into WLH 119 on Tuesday night were greeted with models of the female pelvis complete with fallopian tubes, cervixes, vaginas - and papayas on which to perform mock abortions.

Adds unexpected context for this headline, though.

UPDATE: This post links to a Daily News article that has since been removed. Read here to find out why.

We get it: Dorm bathrooms are kinda gross, and not terrible attractive places to spend time. But is it really so hard to tinkle and flush in the appropriate receptacle? Yes, answered Dartmouth last week, in a group e-mail searching for tips on the identity of the mysterious person soiling the laundry room by night.

This week, the story of the phantom pisser moves to Cornell, where a group e-mail to residents of Founder Hall details the "big health concern" posed by those who pee in bottles and leave them in public spaces. But isn't urine supposed to be sterile or something? In which case this is not a "big health concern," so much as a massive gross-out.

Pee-plexing e-mail after the jump.

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We were willing to overlook the Prince's decision to publish an exegetical piece on copraphagic viral video phenom "2 Girls 1 Cup," but then yesterday's article on violations of "no pet" dorm policies contained this:

Emily said her kittens have also created odor-related woes, especially when they had digestive infections that caused them to defecate often....

"A little known fact about young kittens [is that] until [they are] about three to four weeks [old], they are incapable of stimulating their own waste-passing," she said. "In order for them to urinate or have a bowel movement, the mother usually licks their rear ends. When they are orphaned, a human has to rub their tushies to get them to go to the bathroom, or they will literally explode because of their own waste."

Congratulations to newly-anointed editors Jonathan Zebrowski and Yao Wang. You just ruined kittens for an entire generation of Princetonians.

At Brown eggs aren't the only thing you might find sizzling in a dorm kitchen. And at Yale sometimes the showers aren't so clean. At Dartmouth, however, they just piss in the laundry-room.

So we learn from an email sent out to, "residents of Ripley Woodward Smith," containing news of a "serious health risk." Apparently someone has urinated in a wastebacket in the laundry room. "More than once."

Proietti writes, "it is difficult to believe the person doing this is one of those living in this community." Is it? Maybe it's that quiet kid? Some kind of fraternity deal? Or could it just be drunken coincidence?

After the jump -- the email that started it all!

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