Union wins again; students lose again.  Consistency is what’s important here.

-For the second time in recent weeks, a chapter of the Pi Beta Phi sorority is being accused of drunkenly trashing a facility during a formal dance. At a March 6 party sponsored by the group’s Ohio University chapter, attendees engaged in sex acts, used plates as “missiles” during food fights, vomited on carpets, defecated in urinals, and tried to tear off the clothes of a female bartender, according to a letter written by the director of the West Virginia art center where the formal was held.

Their parents must be so proud!

Remember that study that told you to pull the plug on your kid’s gaming corner if you didn’t want him/her to have the attention span of a dog with its head stuck out a car window? Well, it’s kind of wrong. Or at least, the experimenters in question blew their study way out of proportion and conducted some seriously sloppy research. So say Christopher Ferguson of Texas A&M and T. Atilla Ceranoglu of Harvard Medical School.

via Videogames Cause Short Attention Spans? Not So Much, Say Researchers | Maximum PC.

Economist David Harrington (spotted via Tyler Cowan’s Marginal Revolution) charges anti-plagiarism service Turnitin with “playing both sides of the fence, helping instructors identify plagiarists while helping plagiarists avoid detection.”

Turnitin’s Different Messages To Students, Teachers – Slashdot.

This is taking money directly from those of us who pay our taxes and giving it to those who are already living off our labors.  This is what California and “progressives” and liberals have determined is best.  No matter what you earn, these people think or better yet they don’t think, they believe, that part of your earnings belongs to them to spend on those who don’t legally participate in the system.  It’s a cheat system designed to reward illegal behavior and these people believe that it’s right. They believe that it’s a right to take from an earner and give it to a non-earner based on the flawed principle of everyone should have the same thing no matter their contribution.  Or lack of contribution.

Under AB 131, undocumented immigrant students will be eligible for state Board of Governors fee waivers, student aid programs administered by a college or university, and the state aid Cal Grants program for state universities, community colleges, and qualifying independent and career colleges or technical schools in California, according to Cedillo.

via Undocumented immigrant students will be eligible for California aid – CNN.com.