Roundup: Meet the new boss

Score for press freedom: College Publisher, the way most people read most (but not, ahem, all) college newspapers, backed down on a little-known and never-enforced clause in their contract. In exchange for providing newspapers with the back-end management of their website, the students were barred from writing disparaging remarked about College Publisher and its owner (drumroll, please!), Viacom, the owner of pretty much any channel a college student would watch. Ka Leo, the student daily out of University of Hawaii at Manoa, refused to sign their CP contract based on those grounds, and College Publisher relented. Now if only college presidents would get off our backs. [Via The Wired Campus]

A man of his word: New York State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo is filing a suit against Education Finance Partners, claiming those kickbacks he promised earlier are real. What I found most interesting was Texas Christian University using the old those-aren’t-kickbacks-those-are-like-scholarships-for-students routine. A likely story, you silly horned frogs.

bilde.jpgPrincessGate update: America’s favorite dog torturer, Alex Atkind, will face felony charges of aggravated cruelty to animals if Tompkins County DA Gwen Wilkinson gets her wish. His bond, set at a princely $20K, is bad enough, but being quoted as pleading to your mom “Get me out. Get me out. Today.” can’t help his case here. Especially not with the commenters on Elliott Back’s blog. Prison rape jokes? Sheesh.

Posted March 23, 2007 at 7:06 pm by Matt Q | Share on Facebook
Categories: bizarre, costs, newspapers, princessgate, rights

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  1. Elliott C. B?ck on March 27th, 2007 8:06 pm

    Just FYI, most of my commenters are considered total idiots. I hope to have an idiot filter in the next release of my network theme…

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