Come on, Brigham Young University. Give Chad Hardy back his diploma.

It seems that BYU has rescinded Hardy’s diploma due to his recent excommunication from the Church of Latter Day Saints. Why? Because Hardy published a calendar that features shirtless male Mormon missionaries.

Gotta love a hot man on a mission! The men are modestly photographed, but there are strict rules in the Mormon faith about baring skin—remember Marie Osmond’s costumes on Dancing with the Stars?

The Church of Latter Day Saints has already noted that the 12 men featured are former, not current missionaries, as well as the fact that Hardy’s excommunication was not a direct result of the calendar, but of other, undisclosed reasons.

The results of this fight between Hardy and his faith? Over 11,000 calendars have been sold and Google searches for “hot Mormons” have skyrocketed. Can’t the LDS look at this as great, free publicity for their church?

These colleges are home to the biggest globetrotting student bodies; more specifically, where the highest percentage of students study abroad for at least one semester. 

Earlham College (76%)

University of Dallas (80%)

Centre College (82%)

Kalamazoo College (83%)

Goshen College (85%)

Queens University of Charlotte (90%)

Yeshiva University (90%)

California Maritime Academy (100%)

Thomas More College of Liberal Arts (100%)

Lee University (100%)

Is this what they teach you in the Ivy League?

Jocelyn Kirsch, formerly of Drexel University, pled guilty and was sentenced on Friday to five years in prison for aggravated identity theft. Her partner in crime was then boyfriend, UPenn grad Edward Anderton, who also pled guilty and will be sentenced next month. 

The former couple, often called the “Bonnie and Clyde of identity theft,” stole the identities of many of their friends and neighbors in Philadelphia in order to fund their extravagant shopping sprees and vacations.

Were Kirsch and Anderton afraid that their Ivy League education wouldn’t get them good enough jobs after graduation? I guess they don’t have to worry about the economy where they’re going . . .