When it comes to pork-barrel spending, nobody feeds at the trough with more gusto than colleges and universities.  Ivory towers often disguise some of the most ridiculous projects funded by the federal government.  Here are just a few examples:

Earmark on How to Get Earmarks – $850,000 was earmarked for the East St. Louis Center operated by Southern Illinois University.  This will fund a study on how to spend multiple sources of funding.

Lawmakers throw money around faster than Regis Philbin