Cheat Sheet - America's Top 25 Party Colleges

Today: Suspected Gunman Discharged from Army , Mitt Romney’s Tax Returns Are Irrelevant to the Presidential Race , Suspect Was in White Power Band August 06, 2012 RANKING 1. Top 25 Party Colleges These are the schools where things get rowdy. For Newsweek and The Daily Beast's annual college rankings, we crunched the numbers to find the craziest campuses in the nation, from Colgate to Penn State. See if your school made the grade. Plus, check out the other college lists: most affordable, most stressful, happiest, and more. Read it at The Daily Beast TROUBLING SIGNS 2. Suspected Gunman Discharged from Army Wade Michael Page, the suspected gunman who went on a shooting rampage that killed six at a Sikh temple, had been administratively discharged from the U.S. Army in 1998. He had previously been demoted in rank from sergeant to specialist. Page served six and a half years in the service as a missile system repairman and a psychological operations specialist before being discharged. The military has kept quite on why he didn't qualify for honorable discharge and what led to Page being stripped of his rank. His record also had praise and medals for good conduct, humanitarian service and other basic achievements. Read it at The Los Angeles Times HATE THE GAME 3. Who Cares About Romney's Taxes Even if Harry Reid is correct and Romney evaded paying taxes, Democrats’ obsession with the issue diverts attention from the real debate, writes The Daily Beast's Peter Beinart—the difference between his politics and Obama’s. Read it at The Daily Beast OAK CREEK 4. Suspect Was in White Power Band Wade Michael Page, the alleged shooter of seven people at a Sikh temple in Wisconsin on Sunday, was the leader of the neo-Nazi music group End Apathy, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center. “The inspiration was based on frustration that we have the potential to accomplish so much more as individuals and a society in whole,” Page said in a 2010 interview with Label 56, which the SPLC identified as a “white-supremacist website.” Page said he wanted to “figure out how to end people’s apathetic ways.” Page had been involved in white-power music since 2000, he said in the interview. Read it at Southern Poverty Law Center UNREST 5. Report: Syrian P.M. Joins Rebels Syrian television suffered a bomb attack, while state media reported that the country’s prime minister had been removed from his post Monday morning, though rebels say he defected. Former minister of agriculture Riyad Hijab had held the position for only two months since being appointed by Bashar al-Assad. Syrian television reported the turnover and said Omar Ghalawanji, who had served as deputy prime minister, would lead an interim government. Also Monday, the offices of the state television and radio stations in Damascus were the target of a bomb attack. A bomb went off on the third floor of the building, which gunmen attacked in June, but the explosive did not seem to effect station operations. Read it at The Daily Beast RED PLANET Curiosity Lands Safely on Mars Begins two-year mission. SOCCER FAIL Is Manchester United Ruined? Fans cope with owners taking team public. UH-OH $1B Bain Deal Keyed Italy Outrage Deal netted Romney about $55M. HIGHS AND LOWS Judo Olympian Booted For Pot American ate a baked good with the drug. BAD DRIVER Bynes Accused of Hit-and-Run For the fourth time. GET The Cheat Sheet A speedy, smart summary of news and must-reads from across the Web. You'll love the featured original stories on politics, entertainment, and more from The Daily Beast's diverse group of contributors. GET Culture Beast Weekly cultural recommendations from The Daily Beast. The Number: $5 Billion That's the amount of AIG stock the Treasury sold last Friday. In today's installment, Dan Gross explains why the figure signifies the insurance company's ascent from financial ruin to prosperity. More Videos From the Marines to Ballet by Roman Baca Syria’s Prime Minister Bolts by Mike Giglio The Men Behind @DalailLama by Melinda Liu

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