Well-liked professor arrested for soliciting a minor online...
From today's edition of The New Hampshire: UNH engineering professor David Watt was one of seven men arrested recently on charges of soliciting sex online from minors.
Watt, 49, of Durham was arrested on September 1, in Hollis when he showed up for a pre-arranged meeting after engaging in conversations with multiple undercover investigators posing as minors online, police said.
Harvard offers course on how to be happy.
First, get into an Ivy League School...
Will Da Vinci madness ever end? Oh, how I long for the day when the Da Vinci Code craze goes the way of the pet rock...
In the meantime, students at Oklahoma Panhandle State University can enjoy a class on the biblical and historical relevance of Dan Brown's blockbuster, monoculture inducing film and book.
This is so pathetic. Did UCLA ever offer a paleontology course based on the success of Jurassic Park? A class on genetic mutation inspired by the movie and comic series X-Men? An astronomy class based on Moonstruck?
No one at KD would think of saying that college is a sham. Most statistics show that a college degree greatly improves your chances for higher-paid employment, happier life, blah, blah. Then again, who cares what statistics say? Did Dylan or Kerouac care about statistics, man?
However, we would be remiss if we did not give you a list of those who've succeeded beautifully in life without going to or finishing college.
Check it, courtesy of The College Dropout Alumni Association and others:
F. Scott Fitzgerald: Ditched Princeton University like an old raccoon coat in 1915.
William Faulkner said, "Absalom, bitches!" to the University of Mississippi sometime in the 1930's.
Frank Lloyd Wright stated, "This place is dead anyway" before dropping out of the University of Wisconsin in 1887.
John Steinbeck: Demanded that Stanford University taste his grapes of wrath in 1925.
Edgar Allan Poe squawked "nevermore" at the University of Virginia in 1826.
Edward Albee: Dropped out Trinity College and went to the zoo in 1947.
Bob Dylan: Told the University of Minnesota to blow themselves in the wind in 1959.
Poet, photographer, actor, elf-lover and St. Lawrence University alum Viggo Mortensen told graduates that "activism is not a dirty word" and urged them to be active citizens, particularly to make changes in the country's health-care system."
The A History of Violence actor also assured nervous Classics majors that his "liberal arts education at St. Lawrence taught me as much, and for that I am grateful."
True that a liberal arts college might make you a person with well-rounded knowlege, but it helps to be really, really, really good looking.
Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania talk about bringing wizard innovation to us muggles.
The future? The invisibility cloak.
The vast majority of students take out student loans. In order to pay them back, they must get high paying jobs. In order to get a high paying job, they must go to graduate, law, business or medical school. They must take out more loans.
Interesting article on why this trend is leading students away from lower-paying occupations, such as teaching...
