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YouTube.com features videos of all kinds, from the oddly funny: President Bush drunk and an unbelievable robot dance, to released entertainment like Daily Show clips, The O.K. Go treadmill dance, and anything you can imagine. The only thing you won't be able to find is porn or a video of Steve Irwin's death, though there are a lot of fakes. The free Web site doesn't require a password or fee to peruse the overwhelming amounts of videos. And contrary to Senator Ted Steven's statement, it is not run through a series of tubes. Though there is a hilarious techno remix with a video mocking the Senator's assessment that he "got an internet" through a "series of tubes." IU students, athletes, and even teachers have their fair share of videos on the increasingly popular site. There are amateur videos about life at IU, performances of Super Mario Brothers with guys in costume and saxophonists playing music, sports clips, and more that don't even have an IU tag. A series of practical joke clips that senior Andrew Gant made with friends filmed all over IU have acquired thousands of views. "Village People Lecture Hall Prank" 1290 views The video begins as students walk into an IU lecture hall one by one and sit down in Village people costumes, and have their name flashed on the screen. Their teacher begins the lecture, and before she can gain any momentum, the Village People interrupt the lecture when the music to "YMCA" blasts through the room. The Village People walk to the front of the class to dance as D.J White looks from the classroom. "Teachers all react differently though," Gant said. "Some get absolutely pissed and some absolutely love it and look forward to it. We would then dance all over the classroom, sometimes the teacher would even join, or sometimes the teacher would be fuming in the corner with anger." They go from there to every major landmark on campus. Getting down in front of Showalter fountain, on top of the library steps, in the business school, and in library, dancing on tables in food courts, and even get special access. They make their way onto football field, humping the rock and dancing on the IU emblem at midfield. What started as a prank has become a phenomenon. Gant spent the summer in LA working on music video sets for artists like Little John and Chamillionaire. He one day hopes to be saying "Yeayyyyahhh" and "ridin' dirty" as he does this for a living. "After releasing these videos on the internet they have become so popular to where we are getting request from friends and random students to run through their classes during Halloween," Gant said. "Even some teachers have requested us to." "Ghostbusters Lecture Hall Prank" 3691 views There hasn't been a Ghostbusters movie since 1989, but the ghostbusters live on at IU through a YouTube video. A student in a white sheet runs through a large lecture hall as a student sitting in class tapes it. "The method to pull the prank off would be me going into some random class I'm not in and act like a student, even if some random quiz is put in front of me. Then I would wait about ten to 15 minutes and give the go ahead to the 5 or 6 pranksters outside the room through text." Four ghost busters burst through the door in uniforms, look around and chase the ghost out of the room. Usually the class is startled at first, and then bursts out laughing once they realize what's going on. "When they bust in, I'm usually sitting in the back with a camera filming them. People don't even notice I'm filming because of all the excitement going on in the first place." The short film ends with an extended scene where the ghost busters kick him while he's down. It's a parody of Office Space using the same song and actions as the scene where they beat up the copier. Gant hopes to up the ante in his victory lap and outdo his other pranks. "So this year is our finale, we are all seniors, and we plan to do something phenomenal. We have a few ideas we are discussing right now, but none are for sure yet." You can find home video quality clips from some famous IU basketball games, but the best clips are the compilations showing the best of three of the most talked about IU athletes and coaches of the last decade. There's a commercial featuring a woman sweeping the innards of Assembly Hall singing Indiana fight song, the commercials of coach Hep defending the rock and then there's IU's bread and butter: basketball. "A.J. Moye!"- 3541 views DMX song "Party Up" The former IU baller has a best of video featuring highlights of his basketball career at IU. One highlight includes a graphic of A.J. humping the Duke logo. A Moye fan commented on the video, saying 'ya don't know what ya got till it's gone' ... so true." "Mike Davis Goes Nuts" 481 views With the "chicken dance song" playing in the background, Mike Davis storms the court in a Kentucky game. The on-minute video shows Davis getting a technical foul and then proceeding to be thrown out of the last minute of the game. "Bobby Knights Top Ten" 30,435 views The coach IU still misses has a few MyTube pages, featuring his raging swearing tirades. In one he calls journalism "one or two steps above prostitution," in another he takes a whip and calls it the best motivational device I've ever found. In a fitting end to the clips, Knight says I hope they bury me upside down so my critics can kiss my ass. Knight also has a clip showing his famous chair throwing incident, with 18,000 views. Sadly, there are none of him threatening the student which got him fired. Other Notable IU Tubes Some videos attempt to capture life at IU, with a group of friends dancing around their dorm room and talking about whatever pops into their head. Another shows dancing at a Little 500 dance party, but the real jewels are the choreographed videos with a central theme. "Super Sexy Mario Brothers" Two guys in Mario and Luigi costumes dance around on a stage at the National Junior Classical League convention at Indiana University. Two saxophonists play Mario Brothers theme music as the red and green long sleeved "brothers" decked out in suspenders and little hats chase down a guy holding a cardboard cut-out star. When they collect the star, the saxophonists play the star theme, The skit even incorporates the coin gathering aspect of Mario as the Mario jumps straight up into a paper box a stage hand holds and removes a symbol of a coin as the saxophonists chime in with Mario sounding coin noises. "Law Prof Sings Dionne Warwick" 565 views An IU professor sang "I will survive" in feather boa and jackal hat as a way to raise money at the annual "Singing for Summer Salaries" to benefit those students who take unpaid summer internships. A bidding war determines which professor will sing, according to the video post. With the two star (out of five) rating, he is advised not to quit his day job. There's surely dozens if not hundred more IU videos on the web that didn't attach IU to the title. And if this internet craze doesn't tail off with the "jamming of the tubes," hundreds more are sure to follow.
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