F's with a bullet; Senator Dodd takes up pottery; lethal hazery

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Cal Poly San Luis Obispo weighs bigger, badder 'F' (California Watch)

     … A committee of the university's Academic Senate is drafting a policy that would allow the university to put a special notation on a student's transcript to indicate when an F is for cheating, rather than for honest-to-goodness failure, the Mustang Daily reported. The potential policy shift is part of a growing push among universities to toughen up their response to academic dishonesty….
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     …A committee of the university's Academic Senate is drafting a policy that would allow the university to put a special notation on a student's transcript to indicate when an F is for cheating, rather than for honest-to-goodness failure, the Mustang Daily reported. The potential policy shift is part of a growing push among universities to toughen up their response to academic dishonesty….

Some students at CPSLO opined that this kind of grade is too harsh. Just give cheaters an F, they say. I say we give 'em two or three Fs.

Fraternity Members Sentenced in Drinking Death at California Poly State U. (Chronicle of Higher Education)

     Two fraternity members at California Polytechnic State University at San Luis Obispo pleaded no contest to hazing charges on Tuesday and were sentenced to prison for their roles in the drinking death of a student in December 2008 at the campus Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity, according to the Austin American-Statesman. The student, 18-year-old Carson Starkey, a native of Austin, Tex., died with a blood-alcohol level of 0.39 to 0.48 percent -- "the equivalent of surgical anesthesia," the newspaper reported. The defendants will serve 120 days and 45 days, respectively, in jail, and each will be on probation for three years. Cases against two other fraternity members are still pending.

Yale U. Should Return Peruvian Artifacts, U.S. Senator Says (Chronicle of Higher Education)

     A U.S. senator weighed in today on the long-running dispute between Yale University and Peru over Inca-era artifacts that were gathered at Machu Picchu during the 1910s. The objects belong to the Peruvian people and should be returned to "their rightful owners," said U.S. Sen. Christopher J. Dodd, a Democrat of Connecticut, according to the Associated Press. Senator Dodd, who recently visited Peru, said he would try to mediate the dispute. In federal court last week, Yale filed a motion to dismiss Peru's lawsuit. At this late date, the statutes of limitations in both Connecticut and Peru bar any legal claims over the artifacts, according to Yale's motion.

We'd better make sure Dodd doesn't travel to Mexico, 'cause...