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Alums Celebrate 20-Year-Old Carpet Stain Shaped Like Penis

Posted on Thursday, October 6th 2011
Tags: accountability, alumni, entitlement, homecoming, privilege
Alums Celebrate 20-Year-Old Carpet Stain Shaped Like Penis
Alumni from Flanders University made a special nostalgia tour upon their return to campus for their 20th class reunion. More than 40 former students visited Magnifica Hall to pay tribute to the penis-shaped carpet stain in the fourth floor study lounge. “I remember when Curtis spilled his rum & Coke on the floor of the [...]

Campus Installs Vending Machines to Conveniently Sell Justice

Posted on Wednesday, September 7th 2011
Tags: accountability, ethics, fairness, integrity, privilege
Campus Installs Vending Machines to Conveniently Sell Justice
The Department of Judicial Conduct at Adams & Lee University has invested in vending machines for its student union where students can conveniently buy justice. “We’re a prestigious college,” said André Kerr, director of judicial conduct. “Forcing students to go out of their way to hire lawyers or get their parents involved in negotiating student [...]

Student Successfully Pulls a Tiger Woods at Conduct Hearing

Posted on Monday, January 18th 2010
Tags: accountability, college, conduct, hearing, judicial, sanctions, student
Student Successfully Pulls a Tiger Woods at Conduct Hearing
Transcript from sophomore Chip Park’s recent conduct hearing Hearing Officer: Chip, we’ve had reports from at least twenty-five residents and staff members in your residence hall, saying you’ve done things to humiliate them. Chip: I’m not perfect, that’s true. I have a lot to think about and work out with my floor. Is it okay [...]

In Bold Move, College Replaces Tenure with Get-Out-of-Jail-Free Cards

Posted on Wednesday, November 25th 2009
Tags: accountability, evaluations, faculty, grievance, professors, teaching, tenure
In Bold Move, College Replaces Tenure with Get-Out-of-Jail-Free Cards
In a stunning move, Lime County College, CA voted to abandon a 125-year tradition of tenure in order to implement a new system that involves granting professors a stack of Get-Out-of-Jail-Free cards. “We found traditional tenure practices tiresome,” said faculty chair Moses Stanley. “If I have to read another thick stack of portfolio materials, I [...]

Public Annoyed at Higher Education. Average Joe Doesn’t Understand What the &^*# Colleges are Doing.

Posted on Saturday, July 11th 2009
Tags: accountability, average joe, bureaucracy, chronicle, college, congress, cronk, cronknews, experiments, government, joe six pack, joe sixpack, lobbying, lobbyist, public, research, science, taxes, university
Public Annoyed at Higher Education. Average Joe Doesn’t Understand What the &^*# Colleges are Doing.
Taxpayers from 36 states have formed a lobbying group called the National Witchdog Group to pressure legislators and President Obama to restrict the funding of obviously-ridiculous university research. Group representative Amy Rohrbach who describes herself as “just an average citizen of Kansas” says she is tired of seeing her tax money go to colleges performing [...]

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