College News Roundup: Buy Yourself A College!
Antioch College looking for buyers - for only $12.2 million! After negotiations with an alumni group trying to keep the school alive broke off, the school’s now up for sale - for anyone who can provide the money up front. The tiny, 200-student school is planning to close June 30 for at least one year unless a deal is reached that could keep the school open.
Plagiarizing a plagiarism code: At the University of Texas at San Antonio, students drafting the school’s honor code that forbids plagiarism plagiarized the honor code of another school, Brigham Young University, according to the AP. Cheating expert: “Students think of their computers as cut-and-paste machines.”
Senate kills campus gun legislation: The bill, which passed in the House, would have allowed veterans and others with weapons training to carry concealed weapons on campuses, with the logic that a Vietnam vet in every classroom will stop school shooters. Thankfully, this is dead.
Hostage incident teaches administrators to watch their wording: After the situation at the University of Kentucky at Louisville, where a mom killed her kids and then barged into the school’s health center with a gun, school officials unofficially revised their text message warning policy: make sure the message is clear. Many who received the message thought the incident was taking place at another health center miles away. Whoops!
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