An L.A. television station thinks beer pong is responsible for the spread of oral herpes at ASU. Never fear, Sun Devils. Michael Crow has an ingenious plan to stop the epidemic.

Los Angeles television station KNBC recently reported that the CDC had linked the spread of oral herpes on university campuses to shared red party cups during rounds of beer pong.

Michael Crow apparently agreed with the theory, according to the report. We now turn the story over to the East Valley Tribune:

The article — headlined, “Unprotected Beer Pong May Give You More Than a Buzz” — announced that the federal government had found a massive increase in college student cold sores. It quoted Crow as saying that ASU is instituting a program to halt the spread of herpes akin to giving intravenous drug users clean needles.

The fabricated quote claims that Crow said, “We’re aware that we cannot outright prevent (beer pong), so we have provided new red cups available to all students in the dorms.”

ASU, of course, is denying Crow said anything of the sort. The CDC has also not announced any link between beer pong and oral herpes. And KNBC has since admitted that it fell at least a tad shy of that whole journalism thing.

The reporters and editors at KNBC clearly did not attend the prestigious Walter Cronkite School of Journalism. Then again, they were members of the electronic media.

Maybe UA’s oral herpes epidemic is the reason Wilbur the Topless Wildcat sticks with flip cup.

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