For Kamyar Beihagi, it all began because of a bet with his roommate -- now his head is shaved.

Beihagi (junior-architectural engineering) said the bet, which he said is not fit for print, was "my hair for his eyebrows." He lost.

Friendly bets or not -- shorn heads are popping up all over campus. And whether shaving hair down to the roots is just a passing fad or preparation for warmer weather remains to be seen. Perhaps it is even a bizarre desire to expedite the trend of human evolution in which people are becoming gradually less hairy.

Wayne Britten, owner of Rinaldo's Barber Shop, 107 S. Allen St., said he has recently noticed a lot of people opting for shorter haircuts.

"It's the fad of the season. It's spring," he said.

Hairstyles tend to go through various trends, Britten said.

"We go through a lot of fads in hair --(shaved) is the style that's rolling through State College now," he said.

Some students who have taken part in large-scale hair removal are just living up to their definition of current style.

Roberto Mendez (sophomore-administration of justice) shaves his head regularly because he doesn't like combing a lot of hair every morning.

Mendez even goes so far as to do the deed by himself. Using electric clippers, Mendez said the 10-to-15 minutes it takes to complete the weekly cut are better than getting it done professionally.

"I didn't have the money to cut my hair every week downtown," he said.

Mendez said there seems to be quite a few students with copy-cuts walking around on campus lately.

"This week I've been seeing a lot of people with my haircut," he said.

The style may be part of a trend started by visible celebrities going for the shaven look.

"It probably began with the rappers," Mendez said, adding that a lot of musicians as well as basketball players shave their heads.

Other students take the shaved style to a little bit more of an extreme.

Ryan Waddell (freshman-division of undergraduate studies) doesn't exactly have a shaved head -- he has a large smiley face carved into the back of his dyed, bright-orange hair, along with several circular shaved patches on the sides of his head.

"I was up for a change," Waddell said, adding that the smiley face is "supposed to be a happy message."

Waddell said he probably won't keep the same design in his hair and that he usually changes the style a few times a year.

Other students who opted for a change in their style and dove into the shorn look aren't so enthusiastic about the way their hair turned out.

Mark Bell (junior-industrial engineering) calls his haircut a "mistake."

Even so, Bell said he plans to keep his style of leaving the top a little bit longer than the back and sides for the time being. After all, Bell said, his brother has cut his hair free of charge for the past three years.

And Beihagi, whose roommate -- with eyebrows intact -- shaved his head, said he doesn't like the style at all.

"I hate it," he said, adding that he can't wait until his hair grows back.

Shaven or unshaven, Britten said the best part about being in the hair business is the several different cultures in a college town who all wear their hair differently.

"That's why it's fun to be in business in State College," he said.