Political correctness is not dead – a Pennsylvania school that changed its name from Beaver College has seen a 38 percent rise in applications.

The now-named Arcadia University in the Philadelphia suburb of Glenside has had applications from students in 48 states. As of May 1, 2,600 people had applied, while only 1,836 applied in May 2001 and 1,590 the year before that.

The name was changed because officials said “beaver” was seen as a vulgar term for a woman’s private parts.

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Members of a small Amish community are headed to court over their refusal to hang reflective safety triangles on their horse-drawn buggies.

The Schwartzentruber Amish say the triangles, accepted by more lenient sects in Pennsylvania, represent faith in manmade symbols rather than in God.

For that reason, they refuse to pay about $90 in fines for 24 traffic citations in the Allegheny mountain town of Ebensburg.

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Jeans, sneakers and pierced tongues are out at schools in Los Angeles – for the teachers, that is.

The L.A. Unified School District has adopted a new dress code for staff, and some educators are furious.

Teacher Lissa Washington is angry about the requirement that would forbid sandals without stockings. She says that school administrators are treating teachers like kids, and that they should be more concerned about improving schools than dictating dress codes.

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A North Carolina man still angry about a story in his local newspaper three years ago slammed his pickup truck into the paper’s building.

Cops say Steven Venable, 39, smashed into the lobby of the Kernersville News late Sunday. No one was inside at the time.

The story in question was about a woman who left a plumber at her home to make repairs, only to find that $440 she had hidden was gone when she returned.

The story didn’t name Venable or his plumbing business – but he said it was enough to put him out of business.