Start Your Morning Right: Fires And Abortion Art!

fireCrazed Arsonist At Washington State: Two guys are wanted for setting three fires on campus in under an hour. Cop stunned one, the other got away, last seen heading toward the Burning Man festival with a blowtorch.

Brown U. Math Profs Duped: A colleague sent them an intricate e-mail explaining that the school would move toward a new “merit-blind” admissions policy, where 20 percent of the incoming class would be chosen at random. Profs serious considered the implications of this policy before realizing they’d been punk’d. Oh, Academia.

Are Induced Abortions Art?? A Yale student’s video art project depicting her forcing herself to have an abortion has gotten a lot of people and school officials up in arms over the limits of artistic and academic freedoms. Here’s the thing: she says they were her real babies she was pulling out of herself, Yale says they weren’t. I’m inclined to side with her. I mean, she was there.

Oh No, Poor Investment Bankers: New hires at Bear Stearns, the investment bank that recently collapsed, have all lost their jobs, and now have to look for new ways to work 12 hour days and bring home $100,000 a year. **Tear**