Harvard Hoax by Adam Wheeler

Famed Harvard mischief-maker Adam Wheeler is getting a lot of buzz on Gawker’s well-traveled pages. That’s because he faked his college transcripts and got away with it (at least for a little bit—never should have gone after the Rhodes Scholarship). This story seems to get more bizarre every week, as new information comes to light.
First, the award-winning […]

Arrests and Injured Police Officer Mar Senior Party at Bates College

About 250 seniors from Maine’s liberal arts Bates College were participating in the senior tradition of “Returning to your Freshman Dorm” when police intervened. The result wasn’t pretty, as police tried asking the partying seniors to disband and return home. Fueled by alcohol and the knowledge that they were graduating soon, seniors clashed with the police, and […]

University of Washington Senior Shot By Police

Well, this is a strange story. According to the Seattle Times, police shot and killed Wash U senior Miles Allen Murphy early Thursday morning after responding to a complaint from a local resident. The resident said several men were “shooting vintage, military-style rifles and shotguns into a dark alley” behind their Seattle home. […]

Deaf Robbery Jam

Somehow more unnerving than the scene in Dumb and Dumber when Lloyd sells Harry’s dead, headless parakeet to the sad, blind boy in the wheelchair, the Washington Post reports that deaf students at Gallaudet University in D.C have been the subject of 8 home break-ins in the past two weeks. In this particular area […]

Totally Not Drugs

From the Dartmouth News:
Following an April 18 arrest on Lebanon Street, Hanover Police requested a search warrant to determine whether the odor of marijuana was from illegal substances still in [the suspect’s] vehicle. The warrant was granted the next morning. While searching the vehicle, Hanover Police discovered a small amount of “green vegetative matter,” […]

Glad They Weren’t Peanut

Sean McGuire, a student at Drake University in Iowa, is being charged with assaulting a police officer with M&M’s. The officer was at a convenience store investigating a hit-and-run accident when other security guards on the scene noticed “candies falling on the ground around the officer.” When the officer turned around, an […]

The Best Idea Ever

If you ever need an easy way to damn yourself for all eternity, just consult with Jamar Hornsby, a former University of Florida football player. He can probably give you a few tips.
Hornsby, once a promising safety for the Gators, has just been removed from the team for fraudulent credit card use. […]

The Age of Aquarius

From the Stony Brook University Statesman:
Around 11:30 a.m. on April 18, students were found running through the academic mall fountain. Upon police arrival, the students had left.
A local townie with a moustache comments: “Ay. The ol’ 11:30 a.m. Stony Brook ‘fountain run.’ ‘Tis the oldest tradition they’ve got. Let ‘em run […]

At Least the Raccoons Are Safe

Last week, two students at CU-Boulder were arrested for protesting a controversial bill about the war in Iraq, and they—… Oh, no, I’m sorry. They were actually just balls-out wasted at three o’clock in the morning trying to kill a bunch of raccoons with bows and arrows.
The two Boulder students were […]

Iron Helps Us Play!

From the Daily Northwestern police blotter:
A man and woman stole vitamins from Whole Foods Market, 1640 Chicago Ave., Saturday afternoon, police said. A store employee saw the man, in his 30s, and the woman, about 45 years old, remove vitamins from the store, police said. The employees did not stop the suspects, […]

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