[Editor note: Our wonderful writer Caitlin spotted this horrible crime this morning and was so upset she just had to post about it. Emails to Perez asking for proper credit have gone unanswered.]

On Monday, I posted this article about James Franco’s Facebook pictures. We were under the assumption that Mr. Franco updated the Facebook page, although someone pointed out that he doesn’t do social media anymore. Regardless of if that’s true or not, Perez Hilton took it upon himself to publish the same article with the same pictures from my gallery under the extremely similar title “James Franco’s Facebook Photos Released” at 8:15 this morning. He basically stated that this is some rare event and that it took an act of Congress to get said photos. Oh and there was no link to CollegeCandy or our article.

I’m calling you out Perez. I don’t know whether to be mad or flattered because I guess I’ve made it if you’re ripping me off. And this isn’t even about me, it’s about CollegeCandy. Don’t steal our shiz. I wonder what else you’ve blatantly taken from our site that we didn’t catch. Or what you’re stealing from other sites. From now on, I highly suggest you start linking and stop taking credit for what everyone else is doing.

2010 was a year of infinite life lessons, courtesy of celebrities everywhere and impeccable tabloid coverage. Whether you realized it or not, high-profile snafus paved the way for your own indiscretions- showing you what works…and what’ll land you on the cover of Us Weekly next to a salacious headline.

Feel like you missed the message in some of the more important low points of the year? Well pay attention, because here’s a cheat sheet on cheating…and lying…and boozing…and…

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2010 was a year of infinite life lessons, courtesy of celebrities everywhere and impeccable tabloid coverage. Whether you realized it or not, high-profile snafus paved the way for your own indiscretions- showing you what works…and what’ll land you on the cover of Us Weekly next to a salacious headline.

Feel like you missed the message in some of the more important low points of the year?  Well pay attention, because here’s a cheat sheet on cheating…and lying…and boozing…and…

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Rarrrr!

All of the CollegeCandy writers are strong, smart and…er…opinionated people. So we’re not surprised when some of our blogs turn into heated battlegrounds.  But unlike some other sites, we don’t let this scare us.  In fact, we take pride in our super-opinionated writers AND readers. After all, that’s the whole point of CollegeCandy — a place where every college girl gets her voice heard.

So to honor those voices and give you, our opinionated readers, a chance to raise yours once more, we’re bringing you the 15 most controversial CollegeCandy posts of all time. (Well, besides our most recent commentary on Demi Lovato. That wound’s still fresh.)

Break out the claws, ladies!

1. Trying To Understand The Curvy Girl Backlash
By CC Staff
Actually a response to a previous post’s backlash, this post tackled the body image debate that is getting everyone’s panties in a bunch.  The point is raised that va-va-voom celebs like Salma Hayek and Beyonce do not belong in the same category as other women who are a little bigger, like Nikki Blonsky.

2. Taylor Swift Is Really, Super, Totally Overrated
By Lauren
Let’s face it, the girl’s voice is pretty forgettable.  Sure, she’s adorable and wholesome, but why does there have to be a full-on riot every time someone utters a less-than-glowing word against T. Swift?

3. Should I Feel Guilty That I Can Afford An Unpaid Internship?
By: CC Staff
Unpaid internships are kind of the best (and only) way to get your foot in the door for so many careers these days, so why should any of us feel guilty if we have to ask our parents for financial help while we work hard to ensure a future career?

4. Young and Broke: I’m Paying For My Own Education
By: Sarabeth
Sarabeth pays her hefty college tuition – it’s a struggle, but click to see why she’s grateful for this.

5. The Lady Gaga Look Is Getting Old
By: Alex
Most people think Lady Gaga can do no wrong. Some people think wearing a filet mignon hat is definitely wrong don’t.  Call us crazy, but we think it’s okay to disagree with the masses.

5. Greek Speak: Why You Should (And Shouldn’t) Go Greek
By: Sorority Girl
Sororities aren’t for everyone, but some people get a lot out of them. Our Sorority Girl along with a panel of sorority women present both viewpoints.

6. 10 Things We Wish Guys Knew
By: Laura
Our version of Cosmo’s famed column.  Apparently, not everyone agrees with us.

7. Single Girl Hits Rock Bottom
By: Lauren
Being single is great, but sometimes the single-girl diet isn’t so great for our waistlines…or self-esteem.

8. Perez Hilton Is A Hypocrite
By: Laura
Perez is a hater.  And if you’re a hater, you can’t be a hater hater too.

9. Movies Guaranteed To Make You Cry
By: Mazuba
(Confession: A Walk To Remember is playing as I write this.) We break down some of the movies that do it for us whenever we need a good sob-fest.  What are your go-to tearjerkers?

10. I, Slut: Girl-On-Girl Name Calling
By:  Sara O
Just because a girl has a lot of sex, don’t call her a slut.  Or, if you must, think about what you’re really saying first.

11. Why Are Girls So Mean To Each Other?
By: Elizabeth
Why do girls love to hate on each other?  No, seriously, why?

12. Ask A Dude: My Ex Won’t Be My Friend.
By: The Dude
A guy’s (brutally) honest answer to this eternal question.

13. The 30 Most Overrated Guys In Hollywood
By: CC Staff
No offense to these dudes, but we’re just not seeing it.

14. The Dating Double Standard
By: Jill
When guys do it, they’re precious.  When we do it, we’re clingers.  What’s the deal?

15. Weekly Ten: The Top Ten Reasons I Am Hating Hipsters
By: Melanie
We don’t hate you because you’re a hipster.  We hate you because we can’t tell if you’re straight. And handlebar mustaches are gross.

While I’m sitting here in Splitsville mending my heart with candy corn and Halloween M&Ms, let’s take a look at some less-depressing recent hot topics.

-It’s Breast Cancer Awareness month and one CC reader wants you to know the disease isn’t restricted to older women.  Check yo self, ladies.

-We told you how to score Blake Lively’s look for less.  Because shopping always makes us feel better! Especially when that shopping puts money back in our pockets.

-With Halloween only a couple weeks away, we wondered if our favorite holiday breeds sexism.  Those sexy kitten, nurse, and maid outfits sure are revealing, after all…

-We found that some bitches are crazy, even outside the TV.  Do you know how to spot a real-life Gossip Girl?

-If you’re out of college with a slightly out of focus post-grad path, you’re not alone.  Stop hyperventilating, start embracing.

-How accepting are you really?

-Ugh, Blue Books. Just writing about them gives us anxiety.

-We swear we’re never too old to wear pigtails, lick the bowl, and do these other childhood favorites.

-From poopin’ in private to creative culinary solutions, Columbus may have found America, but we’ve got the 411 on the best college discoveries.

- And, not that you should need one, but we gave you 5 reasons to get out there and vote on November 2nd. Do it.

Leave it to our favorite celebrities to keep giving us more. It seems everything happens at the same time after a dull week and frankly we were overwhelmed just going through it all. This week we’ve had some break ups, an engagement, and a possible escape. We can always rely on Hollywood to give us something to talk about. But what else is new?

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1. Is Perez Hilton changing his ways? It certainly looks like it! After all of the suicide incidents we’ve been reading about due to bullying, Perez has decided to make some changes to the way he blogs. Perez posted a video this week explaining that he has been a bully to people like Jennifer Aniston, and he feels it’s time for him to be a more positive blogger. This doesn’t mean he won’t say some snarky things every now and then, but he’s going to clean it up a bit.

2. Courtney Cox and David Arquette are separated, and David talked too much about it on Howard Stern’s radio show. He explained that he and Courtney weren’t having sex and she wanted him to “do whatever [he] had to do,” which is why he slept with a waitress named Jasmine Waltz. The couple isn’t getting divorced yet and are trying to work on things through separation for the sake of their six-year-old daughter Coco. Hopefully Courtney missed his radio interview.

3. Christina Aguilera and Jordan Bratman were separated, now she has filed for divorce. The couple separated in September and are citing irreconcilible differences. They will share custody of their son Max, and Christina requested that both her and Jordan pay their own legal fees and that she pay no spousal support. They did sign a pre-nup, which means Jordan won’t be getting any moolah. Rumors are flying around that Christina may have cheated on the music exec, but nothing has been confirmed.

4. True Blood’s Joe Manganiello is engaged to actress Audra Marie! Sorry ladies, Alcide is unavailable! The two took a trip to Italy where he proposed! They’ve only been dating for a short while since they met in early 2009, but they are super cute together. Congrats!

5. Did Lindsay Lohan try to escape from rehab? No, but that would’ve been a great story! Reports are saying that LiLo tried to escape from the Betty Ford Center to get a soda. Ha! Shawshank Coke Redemption? It could be her comeback! Don’t worry though, her lawyer says this isn’t true, and Lindsay is making great progress. Keep it up lady!

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1. T.I. talked down a suicidal man! The rapper was in Atlanta and heard about a man trying to jump on the radio, so he went over there to help. T.I. said if the guy came down, he’d talk to him in person and it worked!

2. Don’t worry Gleeks, Mark Salling is coming back! Reports were saying that Mark was getting the boot. False! That hottie isn’t going anywhere and he’ll be back after the Rocky Horror episode.

3. Johnny Depp visited an elementary school in England as Captain Jack Sparrow to help some kids with a mutiny! A nine-year-old girl wrote Captain Sparrow a letter asking for his help, and he showed up! Cool!

4. Robert Redford got knighted into France’s Legion of Honor. So now that’s Sir Robert Redford to you!

5. Check out Zach Galifinakis in Vanity Fair! Seriously. Best thing you’ll see all week.

Anyone who watched The Ellen Degeneres Show today got a huge shock: Perez Hilton publicly announced that he will no longer be bullying celebs. Perez, who is arguably the world’s most well known citizen journalist, is as famous for his out-and-proud sexuality as he is for his snarky criticism of public figures. It makes sense that the one thing that would strike a nerve with Perez is the recent suicides of teens who were harassed for their sexuality, but is Perez taking things too far by cutting out all criticism?

Isn’t it possible to poke fun without crossing the line?

Of course, cyber-bullying is always wrong, and never something to be taken lightly, but Perez could simply make more harmless comments. Poking fun at someone’s wardrobe choice is okay, but attacking his or her personal struggles is not. After all, who would Perez Hilton be without his trademark witty blog posts and inappropriate graffiti art?

I agree that when Perez tries to out closeted celebs, it’s blatantly wrong. But most of his comments are of the more innocuous variety. His blog reflects a trend in new media: finding a clever, humorous way to impart news to the masses.

So I say, bring on the biting comments about Ashlee Simpsons’ new hair and Mel Gibson’s atrocious behavior (hey, you deserve it, M. Gibs.) Just leave the serious stuff alone, and we’ll continue to hit refresh on your blog every thirty seconds.

[Ladies, meet Meredith, the newest addition to the CollegeCandy team. She's a BU student, a movie buff, and an all around fantastic chicadee. She'll be our resident movie gal, givings us the ins and outs of the new releases and now-on-DVDs and telling us whether or not its worth it to add 'em to our NetFlix queue.]

The Runaways (available today, July 20th, on DVD) follows the path of the band, The Runaways, also known as the first all-girl rock band. The one that wanted to rock like the boys. We watch it all happen. At the beginning, Cherie Currie is some random semi-rebellious tenth grade student in the ’70s, lip-syncing to David Bowie and chopping her hair off. At the same time, Joan Jett is being patronized at guitar lessons; she wants to learn rock songs, but apparently girls don’t play electric guitar. All of a sudden, Joan walks up to one of the most important men in the music industry, Kim Fowley, and tells him that she plays guitar. He hooks her up with a girl drummer and sends them on their way. While watching them practice, though, Fowley decides that the group needs some sex appeal. This is where Currie comes in. She’s sitting in a club when he comes up to her and says, “I like you’re look.” He walks away mouthing, “Jail. F**king. Bait.” Just the sex appeal that his band needed.

Crazy right? Tenth graders are 16.
But, uh, Miley Cyrus is 17.

Have you ever seen a movie about a songwriter or a filmmaker where the things around them inspire their art, like Walk the Line about Johnny Cash? The Runaways is not that movie. Fowley inspires the band’s songs. Fowley tells the band to think like guys, to only care about orgasms, to give themselves to the crowd then take themselves away at the last second. He tells them to sell themselves, and they do. Currie goes from wearing blue jeans and boots to wearing underwear on stage. Jett goes from leather pants and t-shirts to red skin-tight leather suits.

And these girls are YOUNG.

The casting is perfect because the audience gets to watch two actresses that they have seen grow up. Kristen Stewart played Jodie Foster’s daughter when she was eleven in Panic Room. Dakota Fanning has grown up on camera; she was ten when starred in War of the Worlds as Tom Cruise’s daughter. When audiences watch Fanning and Stewart on screen, they are reminded of those huge movies where these girls played daughters. That’s why the transformation that Joan and Cherie have throughout the movie is so effective. They’re doing drugs, they’re making out, they’re taking off their clothes. I got uncomfortable watching the little girl from Uptown Girls and The Cat in the Hat stripping down to her underwear for the cameras and on stage. And I think that’s important.

Flash forward thirty years from now. Are we going to be watching a biopic about Miley Cyrus? Of course, we’ll be rocking out to the new renditions of “Party in the USA” and “Can’t Be Tamed,” but how will we react to their re-creation of her lap dance video, her naughty leaked pictures, and her stripping down to her underwear on stage? The Runaways taught me that jailbait sells. Is someone whispering that sentiment into Miley’s ear? The music is important, but is there a Kim Fowley telling her to be a cherry bomb?

I would recommend the movie. The questions that it asks about fame, especially at such a young age, are very important. In a world that has Perez Hilton calling Miley “Slutty Cyrus,” we need a movie like this.

Same goes for Tyra Banks (who does she think she is?!), Ke$ha, Olivia Palermo, Katherine Hiegl and the entire cast of Jersey Couture (no, I don’t know why I keep on watching it). These people shouldn’t be allowed to speak, let alone speak on camera. In fact, I think the world would be a much better place if we never had to hear from them again. Wouldn’t that be heavenly?

So let’s all start a wish list of the celebrities we want to pack up and ship off to an island far, far away. A land filled with dangerous animals, poisonous fruits and zero Internet access or cell phone service.

Who are you giving your first ticket to?

Emmy-Loyola University Chicago: Spencer from The Hills. No one deserves it more.

Sarabeth – University of Texas: I would send Tyler Perry away. The world has enough fat-lady-who’s-really-a-skinny-black-man comedies, and he’s making the same crappy non-funny movies over and over and over again. And if he has one more sitcom start up on TBS, I’ll scream.

Charlsie – Hollins Univeristy: I’d like to send Real Housewife of NJ Danielle Staub to an island where she can’t hide in Bentleys from the snakes!

Melissa – University of Maryland: Miley Cyrus. I think she should take her scantily clad, birdlike self to the Island from “Lost” and stay there. We’ll see who “Can’t Be Tamed” when she encounters the polar bears and smoke monster there.

Katherine – University of Delaware: I would have to say I’d send Mel Gibson far, far away. The way he’s treated Oksana is completely disgusting and I could put up with a thousand Spencer Pratts before I’d be okay with Mel Gibson.

Norah – Drake University: Spencer Pratt. He went off the deep end this season in The Hills, and I think we’ve all had enough of his mystical healing stones and overly fluffy hair.

Lauren H -The New School: Megan Fox – can we please just make it stop already!

Melanie – Northeastern: Charlie Sheen. Seriously, he repulses me and the fact that he is one of the highest paid television stars (on the worst sitcom) is awful.

Sara C- Fordham: Absolutely the Kardashians (do they count as one unit?). Not only are they dumb as posts, their show is always boring and they’re only famous because their late father was OJ’s lawyer (not really a great claim to fame, eh?). Yeah, Kim is hot, but there are plenty of other hot celebs and hot non-celebs, so that argument doesn’t sway me. Adios, amigas.

Lauren – University of Michigan: Ann Coulter. Though I’d really like to be there when she gets mauled by a bear.

Nina – Michigan State University: Mel Gibson! The aforementioned island would work, or he could just go to hell as long as I don’t have to hear his stupidity anymore.

Brithny – Duke: Mama Grizzly herself, because Sarah Palin should never, ever, be allowed to even attempt running for president. I’d run to Canada.

Sammie – Fordham: Kelly Bensimon.  Bitch be crazy.

Leah – Ryerson University: Taylor Swift, so I never have to hear another “OMG I can’t believe I won another award I don’t deserve” ever again.

Brittany – University of Saint Thomas: Kristen “I like the taste of my lip” Stewart. If I never had to see her act or pout while wearing Gucci and standing beside Taylor Lautner…I would be fine with that.

Cristina – Michigan State: It would have to be Spencer Pratt. I really don’t think I even need to describe why.

Caitlin – University of Alabama: Spencer Pratt.  I can deal with Heidi’s fake boobs and Lindsay Lohan’s insanity, but that flesh-colored beard I cannot handle.

Mechelle – Florida State: Perez Hilton. You can’t be a style maven AND wear that get-up to the VMAs.

Meg – University of Delaware: I’d send Miley Cyrus. She drives me insane, has no talent and sounds like she has a retainer in when she sings. I’m hoping that if she never came along maybe Justin Beiber wouldn’t have either and we’ve have some real music to still listen to.

Rachael – University of Miami: Oh, god, only one? Well, since I’m sure most people will say Mel Gibson (for obvious reasons, though, as a Jew, I’m personally offended by his continued ability to speak in public), I’ll go with the less common Tom Cruise. Between his attitudes toward the mentally ill, what he did to Katie Holmes, and his crappy excuse for acting, I think we’d be better off without him.

Looks like homeboy didn’t learn his lesson.

5 tips to keep that sex tape private.

Speaking of which, looks like Pauly D’s got a few….

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Which emergency contraception choice is right for you?

Let the celebrity rehab trend continue….