Professors receive chance to kiss pigs

In an effort to motivate students to donate food for the needy, law students at the University of Florida have organized a professor pig-kissing event.

Students can donate food in the name of a professor, and at the end of the drive, the professor who has brought in the most food will have to kiss a pig.

The Black Law Students Association and John Marshall Bar Association sponsor the food drive, which has taken place for several years.

Pictures can be worth millions

College athletes who were secretly videotaped nude will receive a $506 million settlement from the companies and individuals who carried out the scheme.

The athletes, who represented a number of schools, were taped in locker rooms, bathrooms and showers after athletic contests. The images were later distributed on the Internet.

In all, 46 male athletes were named as plaintiffs, but lawyers said they are only a fraction of the true number caught on tape.

Harassment causes professor to retire

A University of New Mexico history professor who made a controversial comment the day of the Sept. 11 attacks, is retiring because of constant harassment.

Richard Berthold, 55, was criticized for saying, “Anyone who can blow up the Pentagon has my vote.”

He later apologized for the comment, and the university banned him from teaching freshmen.

Berthold had been at the university for 30 years.

Police investigate student attack

A Princeton University student was attacked by five students when he visited the University of Pennsylvania for a debate tournament.

The student, John Brantl, was sleeping in a residence hall lounge with other members of the debate team when some students approached the group. The Penn students told the debate team to get out, but Brantl told them to go away.

One later returned with four friends and began kicking and beating Brantl. They also poured motor oil on him and threatened to set him on fire.

Police charged the students with aggravated assault, reckless endangerment and making terrorist threats. The university is investigating the situation.

— compiled by Kathryn Imes