Saturday, October 02, 2010

Nerd News: Dean Forced Scholarship Students to Do Her Housework

File this under the tag "nerds behaving badly."  Ooooh, scandal, skulduggery, and morally dubious shenanigans on campus?  What a shocker.  From the report:
Investigators say a former vice president and dean at a New York university forced students to cook, clean, wash clothes and chauffeur her family -- and threatened that their scholarships would be revoked if they refused.
An arrest affidavit unsealed by federal prosecutors this week alleges that Cecilia Chang required scholarship students at St. John's University to take out the garbage, shovel snow and cook food at her home in Queens, New York. 
"Chang threatened the students and placed them in fear that if they refused to perform these personal services, they would lose their scholarships and be unable to attend St. John's," FBI Special Agent Kenneth F. Hosey said in the affidavit.

2 comments:

Quite Rightly said...

Times change. In the days of yore scholarship students were required to do homework. (Couldn't help myself.) ;)

Mad Minerva said...

Hahahaha! Good one!