Sexual Harassment: Another Professor Gone Wild

January 21st - Another professor has been accused of wrongdoing, but this time it is sexual harassment. Lately we have seen a trend of professor breaking the law, whether it is stealing research money or harassing other employees. At Tufts, a Professor has been accused of sexual harassing another employee on his research project. He apparently offered her better employment prospects for sexual favors, which obviously did not go over well for the research employee. The research employee is strangely suing the university as well saying that it"should have known of the harassment, yet took no reasonable steps to prevent it." What she expected from the university is hard to come by, however it is becoming an unfortunate trend of professor's going wild.

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Campus Uncensored Stories

UNC
In September, UNC's greek life was almost halted when a fraternity was found with large amounts of cocaine in frat members apartment houses. Along with an upwards of $30,000 worth of coke in a frat house, some sorority girls at UNC were found to be dealing cocaine. This is our #1 story as it shocked the campus for weeks leading to the administration to almost cancel all greek life. If UNC were to get rid of greek life, it would have been the largest and most prestigious university to do so. Along with the coke problems at UNC, a frat president committed suicide only adding to the list of greek life problems at the school. Hopefully we will have some more interesting stories starting next semester. Until then, happy new year!
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University of Michigan
On Sept. 23rd, a power outage swept the University of Michigan campus. It was caused by an unlikely culprit--a squirrel. Most University buildings on the Central and Medical Campuses were left in the dark when a squirrel shorted a transformer at the University’s Central Power Plant. Possibly the strangest story of the semester involved the peskiness of an innocent squirrel. It's amazing what such a small animal can do.
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Michigan State University
On September 23rd, several Michigan State students were run over by a car while attempting to make a drug deal. We all know Michigan State as U of Michigan rejects and this story proves it to be true. If you're going to make a drug deal, maybe you would think students would pick a better place than the middle of the road. The students were run over by a truck, taken to the hospital, and then arrested. Way to go, Michigan State students.
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Brigham Young University
When BYU basketball team visited Sand Diego State University on Saturday, they knew that they would face a hostile crowd, but not this hostile. Some San Diego State students dressed up as Mormon Missionaries, held up signs that said "send money please, mom(s)", and even chanted "Which wife gave you mono?" to a recently sick BYU player. There is nothing wrong with heckling players during professional events, but taking it this far is a little ridiculous. It is funny when a player is accused of stealing laptops and the crowd chants "Where's my laptop?", but using religion as a way to prove your point is a little disheartening.
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Dayton University
As we head into the weekend, we wonder if "party predators," those who "roofie" other students, is a myth or is it a serious problem at college parties. In an article written in the Flyer News, Dayton University's newspaper looks at the issue of students "roofying" other students at parties. What we learn is that there are two possibilities of the truthfulness of the party predator. The first is that students who claimed to have been roofied at a party, really just drank way too much without realizing it, and think that the only possibility was that they were "roofied." The other possibility being that the student was actually "roofied". It appears from Dayton University research that the first possibility is the most common. Although there are definitely sick people out there, not all black outs at college come from the "roofie" as i'm sure all of us can relate to times when we were too drunk to remember.
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University of South Florida
The head football coach at the University of South Florida was fired for slapping a player in the face during practice. Coach Jim Leavitt, who founded and took the University of South Florida program to a pretty high status, was relieved of his duties for slapping a player in the face. This incident only coming a week after former Texas Tech coach Jim Leach was caught putting a player in a dark closet for three hours as a punishment. Who thought that head football coaches could drop down to Guantanimo like tactics against innocent players? What makes matters worse, is both coaches are suing the universities for being fired. Hopefully this will not be a trend in college sports.
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UCLA
Students who participate in the annual Undie Run this week will face consequences. UCLA students take part in the Undie Run as a stress relief, but cops are looking to add more stress to students by taking action if students take part in the run. There is nothing illegal about running around in your underwear, and the threat seems like an excuse for cops not to have to deal with students blocking traffic. Let the students run before they take exams. It will let them relieve stress in a different way than petting dogs. UCLA students appear to have many ways of relieving stress the best two being petting puppies (see story below) and the Undie Run.
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Penn State University
A student at Penn State is suing the university for punitive damages after he was tackled to the ground by cops because he was streaking. If you run around naked, what do expect to happen to you? Streaking happens across college campuses all the time, the most recent incident ending when a Georgia student tripped over a grill. If you put yourself in that position, then you should know that an injury is possible if cops are chasing you down. So sorry Penn State student, the chances of you winning this lawsuit is small.
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U of Michigan
After a short Christmas break, we will continue our top stories of the semester. The next three days will have our top three stories. On December 8th, someone put on the best prank of the semester at the University of Michigan. Top news blogs like Huffington Post even picked up on the story, which became an internet sensation for a week. A student put up posters in school bathrooms warning students that you shouldn't masturbate in showers. Isn't that an unwritten rule in dorm bathroom etiquette that masturbating in the shower isn't sanitary? The poster said comically that "pipes in the hall are not meant to handle semen" and "semen related costs run into thousands every year." Although it was a prank, it's funny how the student focused on cost as the main reason why students should not masturbate in showers. Way to take a slap at college administrations across the country who only care about cost cutting no matter what the issue, even what students do in the shower.
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Harvard University
Harvard University has released its very own porn magazine called Diamond Magazine. It's nice to see that Harvard students are doing more than studying these days. Apparent their entrepreneurial students have moved into the porn business, where even in a recession there is tons of money to be made. The porn magazine can be accessed virtually at around ten dollars. The print edition is thirty dollars. That seems awfully expensive when you can now get porn for free basically anywhere on the web.
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University of Maryland
Since hazing allegations come out against fraternities every week, it's always interesting to see what new hazing methods fraternities have used as a way to haze their pledges. The University of Maryland reported that one of its frats used a combination of Shout and water on one of its pledges. How creative. At least they didn't dump boiling hot water on them like some other frats in the past. It looks like frats are trying to haze in certain ways that they believe won't get them in enough trouble, yet this frat at U of Maryland was thrown off campus. Maybe next time they should use Windex.
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Top Story #2: Political Favor for Student Haunts Marshall University

Coming in at #2 is the Marshall University grade scandal. During the fall semester, a politician in West Virginia received a political favor from the school by getting the administration to change his daughter's grades to A's. What became a major controversy at the school became an even bigger problem when the school administration did not fully investigate the scandal. The scandal clouded the school for weeks, as students, professors, and administration officials not involved in the scandal wanted answers but received none. As a matter of fact, the records of the grade change were deleted by someone in the administration. It's amazing how politicians can receive political favors in the university system, even when it means covering up the failures of your own daughter.

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