Here is one legitimate way you could get links from an edu.
Get a free subdomain.columbus.edu from freedns.afraid.org, point it to your host, set up your link farm. Although I doubt if these will pass any link juice.
FYI, columbus.edu is a PR6
proof: http://wickedfire.columbus.edu/
Note: you may see a cpanel/apache placeholder..I pointed the A record to wickedfire's IP at first, but it doesn't load the webpage, so I changed it to a cloak-forward, but hasn't taken effect as of posting
Get a free subdomain.columbus.edu from freedns.afraid.org, point it to your host, set up your link farm. Although I doubt if these will pass any link juice.
FYI, columbus.edu is a PR6
proof: http://wickedfire.columbus.edu/
Note: you may see a cpanel/apache placeholder..I pointed the A record to wickedfire's IP at first, but it doesn't load the webpage, so I changed it to a cloak-forward, but hasn't taken effect as of posting