Perrone’s family home is valued at $826,000, Smith’s at $1.2 million.

Background of the Georgetown University lab guys.

(Mr UD: “You can see how it happened. Those houses used to be worth twice that.”)

… sent her this.

And just now, her sister-in-law, Joanna Soltan, sent her this.

It’s a good series.

Whether ’tis wiser to dump this guy before he does something else (besides expose himself plus get arrested on alcohol violations), or seek to avoid the disruption of student government impeachment hearings…

Two (three?) freshmen at Washington’s Jesuit university make meth in their dorm room.

Police discovered a methamphetamine lab inside a freshman residence hall on the Georgetown University campus early Saturday.

Everyone evacuated. (Meth labs have a tendency to explode.) Police are interviewing the meth makers.

You’ll recall that UD featured the same story not long ago, this time at the University of Central Florida.

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Some cross-town rivalry in the comments section of Vox Populi:

A meth lab? Who’s trashy now?

Love,
GWU

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God never closes a door without opening a window: Because of this story, UD has discovered the GW Ratchet.

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This one, back in ’05, was discovered via security camera. He was making meth in the San Diego State chem lab.

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Some background from Inside Higher Ed.

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In case you think there might be one in your dorm.

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Meth meet and greet. (Photo of evacuated Georgetown University students.)

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If you really can’t get enough of this.

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Update on the Georgetown University story: The drug lab seems not to have been making meth; instead, it manufactured DMT, a hallucinogen.

If UD‘s experience with these sorts of stories is anything to go by, however, police will find more than one drug being made or sold in the dorm room. The cookers (I learned this word from the Frontline documentary I just watched) usually offer a larger menu.

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Regaining a sense of perspective: From a Georgetown University comment thread:

At least DMT is a safe highbrow drug suitable for use by educated elites, unlike the crude trailer trash stimulants originally suggested.

… surfing in the morning before class is killed by a shark.

University Diaries has already looked at Four Loko, which everyone calls blackout in a can, so I guess we have to as well. It’s the bière de choix at increasing numbers of campuses, and so there are increasing blackouts.

One school – Ramapo College – has now banned Four Loko, and a bunch of states, plus the FDA, are investigating the marketing (usually targeted at young people) of all cheap “caffeinated alcoholic beverages.”

… emerges again (a student was killed at an off-campus party near Seton Hall not long ago), this time at Central Washington University, where a bunch of students, mainly women, have overdosed.

When officers arrived at the party, they found approximately 50 people, predominately underage students from Central Washington University. Several people were severely intoxicated, semi-unconscious or unconscious, Ferguson said. Twelve people were taken to the hospital, including a sexual assault victim.

Ferguson said police suspect drugs were given to the victims, most of whom were female, without their knowledge.

There’s also been, since the start of the academic year, a highly controversial police raid at an off-campus Yale party, and a student riot (it began as a tailgate gathering) near the University of Oregon.

Everyone at SUNY Binghamton — which has had its share of scandals in the last few years — is trying to figure out why Phillip Calderon, a man in his mid-thirties, has been impersonating an undergraduate student there.

He was arrested last week for various misdemeanors (forgery, etc.); and now the many campus clubs he ran are doing damage control.

He can’t have gotten rich in these activities, so it is something of a question. Why did he do it?

I think the SUNY student I quote in my headline is probably right. It’s just such a good life.

After this appearance on CNN, an attorney general takes personal leave.

Michiganders can take comfort in the fact that he’ll be back, bringing his judicious temperament to the laws of their state.

Judith Shklar asked this question in a talk she gave in 1981; and it’s true that when you read about acts of brutal and consequential cruelty it’s hard to resist a feeling of hatred.

Yet when considering the two Rutgers freshmen who secretly filmed a fellow freshman – a gay man – having sex, and then broadcast it all over the internet, and when considering the student’s response to this exposure — he killed himself — the hatred rather rapidly gives way.

In its place is sorrow for him, and contempt for his tormentors. His tormentors’ youth and stupidity created a toxic brew; and UD has no trouble with the thought of both of them reflecting, for a couple of years, from a jail cell, on what they’ve done.

Wisconsin is one of our most proudly pissed states; and within Wisconsin the campus of UW-Stout is a veritable piss park.

In response to the carnage, the university has put serious new restrictions on students and their drink, which has the students (most of them; not the student I quote in my headline) in an uproar…

Last weekend’s incident might quiet them down, though.

Two students got into a shouting match with a third student at a bar. As the third rode away on his bike, the others

assaulted [Bradley] Simon causing him to crash his bicycle into a concrete wall. Simon flew over the handlebars of his bike and struck his head on the wall causing serious head trauma, according to the report.

[The students] then left the scene…

One will go to trial for felony murder, the other for being party to the same.

… provides updates through the day on the mass shooting at a fraternity party near its campus. Students from Seton Hall and the New Jersey Institute of Technology are among those shot.

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Update: One student has died.

Remembering Nora Miller.

… is a George Washington University senior who has not seen fit to take any of UD‘s classes. Probably it’s because his aesthetic preferences (Favorite film: Scarface) are a bit fast for UD.

She will pay homage to him anyway here, since he’s a smart guy, a remarkable athlete, and has an unusual personal story.

(UD, as you know if you read her with any regularity, likes to feature students at her university – and at other schools – who seem to her intriguing.)

The Georgetown men’s tennis team hosted the annual Georgetown Classic exhibition tournament this weekend…

GWU senior Yan Levinski emerged as the singles champion, defeating Penn junior Phil Law, 6-2, 6-1 in the title match. Levinski, who defeated Georgetown junior Michael Clarke, 6-0, 6-2 in the semis, did not lose a set in the tournament.

Levinski was born in Ukraine; his father, who went to Australia for graduate school and stayed there, is an engineer in the defense industry.

An Australian tennis page gives us more information about Levinski:

Yan was inspired to play tennis after watching Yevgeny Kafelnikov compete at the Kooyong Classic in Melbourne. He was eight at the time and later admired Marat Safin, because ‘he is really unpredictable and the chicks love him’. A stand-out competitor in Melbourne’s top state grade pennant competition, where in 2006 he represented Kooyong, Yan came to the attention of the wider tennis community at Australian Open 2006, where he reached the round of 16 at the Australian Open juniors… At primary school, he was a grand master at chess and lists among his hobbies driving fast cars… ‘I play tennis like it’s a chess game,’ he says. Yan loves the feel of new balls, new grip and fresh strings. ‘Brand new socks are phenomenal.’

Oh, and by the way. 4.0 GPA, Fall and Spring 2009.

UD, an NU grad, is quite familiar with the library where, last May, a student was found dead.

The investigation into his cause of death took ages, which seems to me already strange, since it’s not all that difficult or time-consuming to find opioids in people.

When the NU student reporter asked the medical office for details, she was told that “More details [are] not available because the doctor who worked on Tsay’s case is no longer employed there.”

Huh? Does the Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office throw out all of a doctor’s files when the doctor leaves?

The report said that the student died of an “accidental opiate overdose.” How do they know it was accidental?