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Ninja sighting leads to school lock down

June 28th, 2008 · No Comments

We’ve heard of lock downs for criminals with guns, stranger people on campus, and the like. But a ninja? Public schools in Barnegat, New Jersey were locked down temporarily after someone reported a seeing a ninja running through the woods behind an elementary school. Worried, school officials wanted to make sure the ninja wasn’t an [...]

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Indian business school names monkey god chairman

June 8th, 2008 · No Comments

Looking for a little bit of “divine intervention” to help bolster their educational strengths, the recently opened Sardar Bhagat Singh College of Technology and Management recently named Hanuman their official chairman. Hanuman is a revered Hindu monkey god, and will receive their own office with a desk and laptop computer. Four chairs will be placed [...]

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Governor of Montana speaks at commencement for class of one

May 20th, 2008 · No Comments

Opheim High School had one graduating student this year, but it drew a big name for their commencement address: state Governor Brian Schweitzer. Jeff Greenwood was the lone graduating student, who had the privilege of being the student body president and senior class president… by default. He has a sense of humor about it though, [...]

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Man jailed because his daughter can’t pass the GED

May 12th, 2008 · 4 Comments

We’ve heard about some pretty asinine things in our day, but a man being jailed because his 18-year-old daughter failed to pass the GED is exceptionally asinine. Brian Gegner of Fairfield, OH was recently sentenced to 180 days in jail when his daughter Brittany Gegner failed to pass the General Equivalency Diploma test, or GED. [...]

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Not just a fire drill: School stages fake school shooting

April 24th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Police and students at Stoughton H.S. participated in a “practice school shooting” Tuesday
We don’t know what kind of neighborhood Stoughton High School in Massachusetts is in, but we worry about it now. On Tuesday the school staged a “practice school shooting” with a fake shooter but real police. The fake shooter began the drill on [...]

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Student who conned admission into Yale outed by gay ex-lover

April 9th, 2008 · No Comments

Akasha Maharaj conned his way into Yale, and now he might go to jail
Akasha Maharaj easily gained acceptance as a transfer student into Yale because of his sterling transcript from Columbia full of A’s and a strong recommendation from a Columbia professor, even receiving $47,000 in scholarship money per year. However, after a whole year at Yale, it [...]

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Oklahoma Christian University to give “free” Ipods, MacBooks, and higher tuition bills to students

March 3rd, 2008 · No Comments

Apple hearts OCU, and its student’s dollars!
Oklahoma Christian University has decided that it wants to give “all faculty and new students” a new Apple MacBook and either an Apple iPhone or iPod touch. While, this sounds pretty good, the money for these products are coming from somewhere, namely the students. Students would be required for [...]

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Teens protest school’s new hugging policies by hugging it out[side]

March 1st, 2008 · No Comments

Students at Shepard Junior High School in Mesa, Arizona spent 20 minutes hugging and chanting outside of their school in protest of new public display of affection rules, particularly ones against hugging. What are some of these rules? Acceptable “public displays of affection” include:

Stopping and talking in the halls (but moving to the side to [...]

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