U of U Urban Legends

Once in the 1960s, for a prank, a bunch of Sigma Chis took a horse into the basement of another fraternity and shot it, leaving it their for their rivals to clean up.

Playboy magazine once rated the U as one of the sexiest campuses in America.

Sports Illustrated once rated the U fight song as one of the worst in the nation.

The department of communication isn't called communications (with the s at the end), but most of its students don't know that.