Audrey Henson was a lot of us when we first moved to DC: eager, ambitious, ready to take on the world — and also broke. She struggled as an intern working on Capitol Hill and recognized that she wasn’t the only one. That’s why she started College to Congress — so she …

Extinguishing fire WITH SOUND. Amazing. Two George Mason students figured this out. What have you done lately?

Pallavi Damani Kumar is a full-time professor in American University’s School of Communication and the Division Director for the Public Communication. Ever since I graduated as an undergraduate from American University’s School of Communication, I wanted to teach in the program. I felt like AU helped me discover my true passion in public relations and strategic communication, and teaching was a way of giving back. Eight years after graduation, after working in New York and Philadelphia, I was headed back to DC, and my first goal was to fulfill a long-held dream of mine to teach in the Public Communication division.

If you’re in politics and spent four, five or six years of your life graduating from college – you wasted your time. McCain campaign manager Steve Schmidt and David Plouffe, his counterpart on the Obama campaign, are teaming up to develop a political communications center at the University of Delaware. …

Happy Wednesday. Yesterday’s Drew Magary post inspired us: Today is a special college football edition of our morning news round-up. Back-up covers of Tim Tebow in Sports Illustrated [GUMP for Heisman ] … More Tebow! His GQ cover shoot [over exposure ] … Syracuse is starting a former Duke basketball …

You gotta tackle these things early. AP: Obama Eyes College Football Playoff

Sen. John Kerry hit the campaign trail over the weekend.  Stops included the trash can punch bowl, beer chest and of course, the shot bar. Good for him.  It’s all about the youth vote anyway. h/t TMZ [click for more sweet photos]

for college FOOTBALL? The BCS is in the second of a four-year, $320 million contract with Fox that runs through the 2009 season and 2010 bowls. The BCS will begin negotiating with Fox on another deal in the fall. Fox has exclusive negotiating rights with the BCS. No changes are …

Buckeyes and BCS title game: Third time’s a harm “Give Ohio State credit for consistently being very good — but until Jim Tressel’s team proves it can step up to the highest level of competition and actually stay on the field with an SEC opponent, stay away. “They’re also fond …