As a former journalism major, I know that all these campus newspapers swap issues, and steal stuff.
Probably if some campus paper does a story, it inspires others to publish something similar. And having someone else's story in hand makes it easy to produce a similar story.
You might also be interested in the Wake newspaper and their cartoon about the Chi Omega situation.
http://ogb.wfu.edu/editorials/edito...?id=579_0_8_0_C