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Please Stay Tuned for the Following Pornographic Announcements
Tweet Share on Facebook November 22, 2006 Comment (42)A prank at the University of Idaho replaced the university's campus announcements broadcasts with porn for about 15 minutes, reports the Argonaut.
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Trail Mix
Tweet Share on Facebook November 22, 2006 Comment (19)- The University of Kentucky will update a war memorial with the names of 565 Kentuckians who have died as a result of war. It's the first time names have been added since the end of the Vietnam War, the Kentucky Kernel reports.
- California State University-Northridge's student senate plans to lobby against "size discrimination," the Daily Sundial reports. The effort could include asking the university to make T-shirts in larger sizes.
- Student athletes at the University of California-San Diego are fighting to save their athletic department, the Guardian reports.
- A new national program sponsored by MTV is designed to fight college suicides, says the Indiana Daily Student.
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UCLA Taser Cop Was Once Officer of the Year--And Once Shot a Homeless Man
Tweet Share on Facebook November 21, 2006 CommentTerrence Duren is the officer who used a Taser gun to shoot UCLA student Mostafa Tabatabainejad for failing to present an ID while in a campus library, campus police announced Monday. Duren, who was named officer of the year in 2001, also was accused of brutality in 2003, when he shot a man he believed was intruding in a university hall. The man, Willie Davis Frazier, turned out to be homeless, but--like the UCLA student--claimed he never resisted Duren's request that he leave the lounge.
At the time, the Daily Bruin reported that the two men's accounts of the incident varied widely, "mainly because Frazier said he never struck Duren or held any of Duren's weapons during the incident--issues that make up the three charges against him." As of March 2005, the case had not been decided, but Frazier was being held in the psychiatric unit of an L.A. jail because he could not pay his $500,000 bail, according to the Daily Bruin. Here's a YouTube video of the Taser incident.
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Editorial: Student Athletes are "Ineducable"
Tweet Share on Facebook November 21, 2006 Comment (27)"The process of attempting to educate the ineducable or those who don't want to be educated is at best futile and at worst silly," the University of Oklahoma Daily declared in an unsigned staff editorial last week. They got some heat for the story--but, in at least one case, seem to have relieved some bottled tension, too. In response to an athletics director's comment that "There is no way a student would trade places" with a student athlete, one student wrote:
"No way I'd trade places with an OU athlete, you say? My typical day begins at 7 a.m. with classes throughout the day. When I get out of class, I go to work, often working until midnight during the weekday or as late as 2 a.m. After work it's back to my apartment to study, often ending my day at 3 a.m. Repeat this every day.
"At some point throughout my day, I must find time to get a workout in at the Huff. Throw in that I do my National Guard duty one weekend a month and you see that I, like many other students on OU's campus, do just as much or more than the athletes at OU, just to make ends meet.
"Before saying that we wouldn't want to switch places with an athlete, know where many of us come from and many of us must do a lot just to continue our education, which doesn't come free-of-charge."
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Washington State Police Can Patrol Dorms, No Strings Attached
Tweet Share on Facebook November 21, 2006 CommentAfter a court case judged unrestricted police patrols in Washington State University dorms illegal (because dorm hallways are like the hallways of a home), the school's board of regents has voted to change its own code to get around the ruling, the Daily Evergreen reports. The initial ruling was based on the school's definition of a guest inside a residence hall. Now, that definition has been changed so that police and emergency vehicles no longer count as guests.
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Laptop Morality Tale from the University of Utah
Tweet Share on Facebook November 21, 2006 CommentA University of Utah professor emeritus lost 40 years worth of research last week when his laptop was stolen, the Daily Utah Chronicle reports. After working 12 hour days five days a week, James Mayfield had finished about 80 percent of a book on Egyptian villages, which he expected to publish this year. Mayfield still has most of his raw notes, says the Chronicle, but transcribing them again could take another three to four months.
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Trail Mix
Tweet Share on Facebook November 21, 2006 Comment- Administrators who worried about Tulane University's first post-Katrina freshman class are no longer worried--not even close, the Hullabaloo reports.
- Ivy League schools are about to get bigger, both in physical space and number of students, says the Daily Pennsylvanian.
- Will the University of Wisconsin's Bucky the Badger win the Capital One Bowl mascot contest? Not if you don't keep voting for him!, the Daily Cardinal pleads.
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Mississippi Couple Travels to Cambridge, Mass.--for Football
Tweet Share on Facebook November 20, 2006 CommentWho wasn't watching Saturday's Ohio State-versus-Michigan game this weekend? While 21.8 million viewers tuned in, one Mississippi couple packed their bags and drove up to Cambridge, Mass., to watch Harvard take on Yale in another contest that calls itself simply "The Game." Tom and Diane Butchart chose sides arbitrarily and then made a bet; Diane, who put her money on Yale, scored a ring for her wise choice. The bonus: They got to see two MIT students run naked across the field.
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What Competitiveness Crisis?
Tweet Share on Facebook November 20, 2006 CommentU.S. universities awarded more science and engineering Ph.D.'s in 2005 than ever before, a National Science Foundation study found. The finding "is unlikely to quiet the burgeoning cries of alarm about a perceived crisis in American scientific competitiveness," says Inside Higher Ed. But there's just one catch: Forty-one percent of those degrees went to foreign-born students.
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Afroman Plays at Northwestern, Stays in Wisconsin
Tweet Share on Facebook November 20, 2006 CommentNorthwestern's Chi Psi fraternity hosted the rapper Afroman this weekend, paying him with two 40-ounce bottles of Colt, dinner, and a hotel room. Afroman, whose song "Because I Got High" has won him a place on many iPods, "didn't have a dressing room, and the stage was only about 8 by 15 feet," but his biggest complaint was with the hotel. After a frat brother booked him a night at a Best Western across from the bar where he played, Afroman "got kind of flustered" and moved to a Red Roof Inn in Wisconsin, the Daily Northwestern reports. The Best Western was too close to the bar, Afroman said. Maybe it also had something to do with where a medical marijuana bill failed this month?
In other Afroman news, the Massachusetts judge who once sentenced a teenage drug offender to listen to "Because I Got High" to teach him a lesson about the consequences of drug use defended her unconventional sentencing earlier this month at a press conference, the University of Massachusetts Daily Collegian reports. Most recently, the judge sentenced a UMass student to stand in front of a police station at 5 a.m. in a toga.