“In 2011, we saw an explosion in the number of college students seeking Sugar Daddies to help pay their college tuition”, says Brandon Wade, Founder & CEO of SeekingArrangement.com. “One in every two sugar babies who join our website today are college students, and college sugar babies now make up 40% of our sugar baby population, up from 33% in 2010.”

So which Universities do these college Sugar Babies come from?

SeekingArrangement.com today announces the Top 20 list of Universities with the largest number of Sugar Baby signups in 2011:

University Ranking -- # Signups

1. New York University (NYU) -- 185
2. University of Georgia -- 155
3. University of Phoenix -- 144
4. Tulane University -- 129
5. Temple University -- 113
6. Virginia Community College -- 108
7. University of Southern Florida -- 93
8. Arizona State University -- 85
9. Michigan State University -- 81
10. Ivy Tech Community College -- 78
11. Georgia State University -- 74
12. University of Wisconsin -- 73
13. Penn State University -- 72
14. University of Central Florida -- 67
15. Kent University -- 65
16. Maricopa Community College -- 63
17. Indiana University -- 62
18. University of California, Berkeley -- 61
19. The Art Institutes -- 60
20. Florida International University -- 59

College students who register for an account on SeekingArrangement.com with their dot-EDU email address automatically receive a free premium membership upgrade, and are certified as “College Sugar Babies”. Profiles that are certified as “College Sugar Babies” receive three times more inquiries from potential Sugar Daddies.

A popular and critically acclaimed indie rock group from Wisconsin is about to take a national stage.

Bon Iver has been scheduled to perform on Saturday Night Live.

Their performances will air on Saturday, Feb. 4 on the show set to begin at 10:30 p.m. on TODAY'S TMJ4.

That performance comes the night before the Super Bowl.

Bon Iver also has been nominated for several Grammy awards.

Charges filed Thursday in the ongoing John Doe investigation into former and current aides of Gov. Scott Walker allege a pattern of illegal fundraising and what appears to be a systemic avoidance of campaign laws by Walker's inner circle.

The alleged shoplifting was reported at 6:23 p.m. at Kohl's, 2501 W. Broadway.

Police were given a description of the suspect by store personnel after he fled the store.

A short time later, a Monona officer saw a male matching the suspect's description getting on a bus at the corner of Bridge Road and Broadway.

The officer contacted the suspect on the bus, and discovered the stolen shoes hidden in his pants.

A Madison woman at a meeting of a local book club got a little more than she bargained for by taking a python out of its terrarium last week, when the python bit her on the face and wouldn't let go.

Annie, a 17-year-old ball python about 4 feet long, attached herself to the right cheek of the 31-year-old woman and wouldn't disengage until the python's owner came home and was able to get the snake off the woman's face.

"She just wanted to hold her," said Madison police spokesman Joel DeSpain in a news release. "She apparently had prior experience handling snakes and had no reason to believe she was putting herself in danger."

The ball python is a smaller species of python and is a fairly common snake to have as a house pet, nomally docile and prone to eating small mammals such as rats or mice.

The snake is also known as the royal python, a serpent that Egyptian Queen Cleopatra supposedly wore on her wrist. (It's not poisonous, so this asp couldn't have been responsible for the queen's demise.)

The woman belongs to a book club that was meeting around 7 p.m. at a member's house on Jan. 19 on the city's north side.

Once Annie was removed from the woman's face, the python went back into the terrarium and the woman went to get the puncture wounds looked at.

"It was sort of a happy ending," DeSpain said. "The women ended up with no scars and no lasting emotional trauma."

A Wisconsin man won the $14.3 million Megabucks pot, but was oblivious to his windfall for three days. The employees of the gas station where the winning ticket was sold wondered about who had scored the big payday and hoped it was one of their regulars, Napolean Elvord, a veteran in need of a kidney transplant. Employees even asked him if he was the big winner, and Napolean said it wasn’t. But when no one claimed the ticket, workers pressed him again, and it turns out that he had been looking at the wrong day’s results. “I think it was a mistake because I was trying to play the Powerball,” he said. Elvord is opting for a $10.2 million lump sum, or $6.87 million after taxes. He says he’ll take care of health insurance first and then move to his warmer home state of Texas

You know you live in a state consumed by politics when a webcam showing bureaucrats silently shuffling around a nondescript room feeding papers into a scanner attracts tens of thousands of viewers.

Such is the case in Wisconsin.

The cam, featuring a live look at the guarded, secret location where petitions to recall Gov. Scott Walker and five other Republicans are being housed and processed, has its own account on Twitter and a growing cadre of followers who've attached nicknames to the workers, pointed out when people mug for the camera and generally mock the entire process.

When you earn a bye in the NFL playoffs, you've earned the right to spend that down time in any number of ways. You could spend it with family, spend it relaxing ... or you could spend part of it joining a fraternity.

That's what Packers quarterbacks Aaron Rodgers and Graham Harrell did.

That's right, the reigning Super Bowl MVP and one of his backups went "Old School" on January 5th and were initiated into Tau Kappa Epsilon at St. Norbert College, which is located in De Pere, Wisc., about five miles south of Green Bay. Obviously this raises a lot of questions, so let's try to answer a few.

Were they hazed? Paddled? Ordered to shoot a horse (even if the gun was filled with blanks)?

"No," said TKE president Aaron Reynolds, 22. "We don't haze or paddle or anything like that."

Did they have to pledge like everyone else?

"No, they're honorary members," said another TKE, senior Nolan Smith, 22. "They didn't have to do the regular six- or seven-week program."

They must have been excited about that.

"Oh, yeah, they were happy they didn't have to go through the regular pledge process," Smith said. "But it still meant a lot for them to be initiated into TKE."

So why were they joining? Well, not for the social aspect. After all, as NFL quarterbacks, they probably do OK in that regard. No, Rodgers and Harrell joined TKE, Reynolds explained, because they'd wanted to join back in college, but they were too busy being major-college quarterbacks -- Rodgers at Cal, Harrell at Texas Tech. Dan Zegers, a former TKE at St. Norbert who is now a scouting assistant for the Packers, mentioned joining his old fraternity as honorary members, and they took him up on it. The Packers (who are sort of busy) said Rodgers, Harrell and Zegers were not available to comment this week.

In a 45-minute ritual that was attended by TKE members from throughout the country, Rodgers and Harrell were inducted into the fraternity whose stated purpose is "the advancement of society through the personal growth of our members, and service to others." The fraternity's biggest fundraising commitments are to St. Jude's Children's Research Hospital, because entertainer and St. Jude's founder Danny Thomas was a TKE; and to Alzheimer's disease research, because former President Ronald Reagan, who suffered from Alzheimer's, was also a TKE.

Rodgers shares a commitment to St. Jude's, and his new fraternity brothers look forward to possibly working alongside him in charity events.

"We were all really surprised that he and Graham Harrell were willing to be part of our group, which was really nice and really enlightening," said Smith, a Milwaukee native and diehard Packers fan. "Coming from a football enthusiast's perceptive, it's kind of weird. Iconic football players who are now your fraternity brothers. It sort of serves as a double sweetener."

But Reynolds, a native of Aurora, Ill., said he couldn't resist telling Rodgers that he's not a Green Bay fan.

"I said I really respect you as a football player. But I am a Bears fan.' And he was like, 'Oh, really? Is this going to be a problem?' And I said, 'No, no, there's no problem.'"

It's bad enough for a Minnesota Vikings fan in Madison to sit through a terrible season. Throw in getting your custom-made Vikings mailbox swiped.

Then have a replacement plain old metal mailbox that you painted purple intercepted as well, and a bad season just got worse.

Madison police said the football-flavored thievery happened in the 900 block of Troy Drive on the city's north side.

The lady of the house, a 56-year-old Vikings fan, told police the family is not shy about pledging allegiance to Viking purple and gold and not Packer green and gold.

"They displayed their allegiance to the Minnesota Vikings in the heart of Packer Nation," said police spokesman Joel DeSpain in a news release. "Their mailbox had been in the shape of a Vikings' helmet, talked about in the past tense because someone swiped the prized $600 plastic receptacle at the end of December."

Enter the standard, non-Viking mailbox.

"The owner was undeterred, buying a $25 plain mailbox to replace the helmet, painting the new box purple," DeSpain said.

The Viking fan was sacked when the new box was intercepted on Jan. 7.

"It already was not a great year since the Vikings went 3-13," DeSpain said. "The team mailed it in and now a Madison fan has no Viking mailbox to get mail in."

A 23-year-old beauty queen from Kenosha, Wis., won the Miss America pageant Saturday in Las Vegas after singing opera and strutting in a white bikini and black beaded evening gown.

Laura Kaeppeler also had to answer a question about whether beauty queens should declare their politics.

"Miss America represents everyone, so I think the message to political candidates is that they represent everyone as well," she said. "And so in these economic times, we need to be looking forward to what America needs, and I think Miss America needs to represent all."