Don't worry, readers.

Jay Bundy has not been reinstated as the president of UPUA. It is, in fact, impossible to be impregnated by a penis made of snow. And McLanahan's will not be charging students a cover to enter -- though I think that's a brilliant business idea.

More importantly, The Daily Collegian has not changed its name to The Phaily Phollegian.

I'm sure many of you noticed that the Collegian was not the only newspaper-looking publication of student-produced content circulating throughout campus yesterday.

Phroth, a group of Penn State students who publish parodies and humor magazines by the same name, poked fun at The Daily Collegian with an eight-page section of fictional stories, photos, graphics and even a phony weather prediction.

Turns out it didn't rain meatballs last night.

While no doubt hilarious, Phroth's latest parody of the Collegian, ironically, is something to take seriously, however.

That's because it comes at a time when joke and parody issues of college newspapers have been in the news -- the real news that is.

Princeton University's independent student newspaper recently published a joke paper of its own containing a column written by several members of the publication's editorial board in which common stereotypes of Asian American students were satirized to the extreme.

The column was funny, but some people just didn't get the joke -- or, at least they didn't appreciate it.

In my experience, it's not uncommon for new Collegian staffers to come up with the "idea" of publishing an April Fool's issue in an attempt to win a few chuckles from readers.

That's one of those "looks great on paper" types of ideas.

I don't think the Collegian will ever publish a joke issue simply because we value our credibility, we work hard to preserve it, and it's not worth a few laughs to risk it.

Thanks to Phroth, Penn State's hardly been deprived of a humorous spin on local news.

Yet we wonder if the Collegian's credibility is being at all sacrificed when our fellow students create a publication that looks exactly like ours but without even the slightest hint of truthfulness.

Phroth's editor in chief Meghan Kitchen said the group has not encountered any ethical dilemmas connected to the publication of The Phaily Phollegian since its first issue in 2005.

"We're not trying to go against the Collegian," she said. "We try and make sure that the articles and the headlines are not obviously fictitious but that when people get to the end they realize that this couldn't really happen."

Kitchen added that a disclaimer on the front page, the name change and an inside ad distinguish the real from the fake.

Still, more than one person called the Collegian yesterday asking why we'd switched to such a nonsensical name.

That leads me to ask this question: Do students get the joke?

I know I did a double-take this morning when The Phaily Phollegian first met my eyes.

That makes me suspect it took most other students more than a second glance to figure out what was real and what was fake.

The Collegian's managing editor Krystle Kopacz said to me today that it is impressive what Phroth has done.

Then again, she added, the Collegian does this every day -- and our stuff isn't made up.

I personally support self-expression and creativity in just about any form. And I'll be the first to admit that Phroth's stuff is downright hilarious.

But if Phroth plans to continue publishing The Phaily Phollegian I would encourage them to take more steps to ensure that students know they're reading a parody and not the real thing.