This article, the "Norton Antivirus 2009" submitted by the same user, and the "nail fungus" one submitted by a different, also newly created account, seem to be

This article, the "Norton Antivirus 2009" submitted by the same user, and the "nail fungus" one submitted by a different, also newly created account, seem to be page-rank farming spam. But anyway, to answer you -- I don't know about Student Universe, but I know someone who worked on the student verification part of the Microsoft Dreamspark site, and it is a lot of work and not simple. The way things are now, I think a lot more students will be selling those frequent flyer miles on points.com or flyhub.com or craigslist or whatever, and taking Greyhound. It's better to have cash in hand -- not that Greyhound is all that cheap these days, many flights compete with them on cost now.