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December 2, 2014

Sometimes the jokes just write themselves [Darleen Click]

Headline: About 100 brains missing from University of Texas All from the Admin Building, I assume?

Twana Brawley 2.0 [Darleen Click]

The whole UVA “I was gang-raped at a frat party” story in The Rolling Stone is raising some troubling questions. Could it be a hoax? Magic 8 ball sez signs point to yes Last week, writer Richard Bradley published an essay essentially applying the criteria of dissimilarity and embarrassment to the by-now world-famous Rolling Stone story about a gang rape at a University of Virginia fraternity. Bradley, who as editor

Racist incident revealed to be a hoax; University of Chicago shrugs [Darleen Click]

Because the political agenda behind the hoax is something they embrace. A University of Chicago student who claimed his Facebook page was hacked and filled with racist and violent messages against him and another student has now admitted he faked the attack. Intended to shame the school into making drastic changes around race and speech on campus, the hoax appears to have worked. The students behind the ruse, the hoodwinked