College Shorts

Students at the University of South Florida have been found guilty for cheating on a midterm exam for a senior-level business course.
After an anonymous student tipped Professor Richard Quinn that students were cheating earlier in the week, he found discrepancies in the number of A’s and the time the tests were submitted to his office. The professor said that he was “physically ill” and “completely disillusioned” after the incident. He worked out a deal and set a Friday midnight ultimatum for implicated students to confess or face possible expulsion. Two hundred students have confessed and will be required to take an ethics seminar as well as to retake the midterm along with the rest of the class.

— Orlando Sentinel

The controversial but trending alcoholic drink “Four Loko” has garnered much attention from college officials as well as state governments and the FDA, leading to its ban at many college campuses across the nation.
Even colleges such as Harvard and Boston University have issued statements to their students warning about the dangers of the drink, which is the equivalent of four beers and three to four cups coffee. Five states have also banned the drink from distribution, including Washington, Michigan, Oklahoma, Utah, and most recently, New York.
Phusion Projects, the distributor of Four Loko, have been cooperative with governments while trying to defend the safety of their product, saying that “caffeine and alcohol had been consumed safely together for years.”

— NY Daily News

30 presidents of private universities and colleges received a compensation package worth more than $1 million in the 2008-2009 fiscal year, the Chronicle of Higher Education reported.  This represents an increase over the number of presidents receiving $1 million in the 2007-2008 fiscal year, which was seven.
Though some of these administrators headed research institutions such as Columbia, Vanderbilt, and Yale, some were presidents of smaller schools such as John L. Lahey, of Quinnipiac University and Walter D. Broadnax, of Clark Atlanta University.
Many universities made sure to release statements saying that these compensation packages were before the recession started.
President of Middlebury College Ronald D. Liebowitz was listed in the Chronicle with a total compensation package of $729,929.

— The Chronicle of Higher Education