… Cloverfield.

Under the leadership of free spending Evan Dobelle, Westfield State University has taken on the feel of a horror film. Every day brings new financial and legal disaster. Most recently, the state of Massachusetts, displeased with Dobelle’s apparent misuse of public money, has frozen much of the school’s funding.

All of this because – with full knowledge of his scandalous behavior at his previous employer, the University of Hawaii – Westfield went ahead and hired this man.

Dream on.

Here’s what they’re saying along G Street Northwest, Foggy Bottom — bits of conversation UD heard just now as she walked to her class on James Joyce.

She has a big butt, yes. She’s always had a big butt. But she’s in good shape – almost as good as I’m in. She’s a pretty girl. But the butt yeah.

Two GW students, male and female. Female is the speaker. Both students are in summery gym clothes and are in extremely good shape.

“No, that wouldn’t be true of everyone who’s covered. That’s not how coverage works.”

Well-dressed DC bureaucrat outside World Bank building to another well-dressed DC bureaucrat.

“It was a real lesson for me. A real lesson, man.”

Worker in front of a delivery truck to another worker.

“You like hip-hop?”

Directed to UD by a guy selling cds.

… you have to ask yourself: How does OSU top that?

Well, ask no more:

A 22-year-old Oklahoma State University student faces two felony charges for allegedly using a loaded gun during fraternity hazing.

Owen Hossack, a now former Alpha Gamma Rho member, faces two counts of pointing a firearm at an individual with the intent to harm, KFOR reports.

Hossack is accused of holding a loaded gun to a pledge’s head on Aug. 16 in an extended cab pickup truck and asking the student if he would take a bullet for his frat brothers. When the pledge said no, Hossack allegedly became angry and yelled before placing the gun up to another pledge and asking the same question, according to an affidavit. Shortly after the second pledge’s response, a flash of light was seen and the passenger window exploded.

No one was hit by the bullet.

OOOOOOOOOOklahoma!! Where the guns come sweepin’ down the plains!

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Here’s some real tasty details I bet even Aunt Eller couldna whipped up.

During an interview with OSU police Sept. 11, Hossack said he fired the weapon at the window, which he believed to be open, to frighten the pledges.

Hossack, who was secretary of the Interfraternity Council in 2013…

Number One: Nuthin wrong with firin a gun out a open window. Everybody on the street oughta be armed to defend themselves.

Number Two: They voted me fuckin secretary of the whole Interfraternity Council.

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UPDATE: Says here the shooter had passed anti-hazing training. Hm. Was the course explicit about not putting guns in people’s faces and threatening to shoot them? Sounds as though we need a little tweaking.

Listen to your AD, kiddies! He knows what’s best. What your school needs is a vast new expensive football stadium. Everything will be much better then.

Pay no attention to your university’s most recent football game! That tells you nothing. Nothing, do you hear me? Not a goddamn thing! Don’t quote from the article about it, UD! Don’t do it!

How does it feel to play a game in front of a half-empty stadium?

Heartbreaking.

CSU has won both of its home games at Hughes Stadium this season, but fans haven’t shown up to watch. The Rams are averaging 16,832 fans at home, ranking second-to-last in the Mountain West.

While area flooding had an affect [Scathing Online Schoolmarm says: Make that effect] on Colorado State University distributing 14,146 tickets to the game against Cal Poly on Sept. 14 — the schools’ least attended home opener since 1968 — Saturday’s match-up with UTEP wasn’t much better.

It was 57 degrees, sunny and Ag Day — annually one of the most popular games of the season. But only 19,517 fans showed up to watch the Rams win their fifth consecutive home game. All five games played in front of less than 20,000 fans.

It fuckin breaks their fuckin hearts, man! Please give all you can to the new stadium fund!

Yet another article worrying about students not going to football and basketball games even as universities build more and bigger stadiums, etc.

UD has suggested armed intervention.

You’d think a professor who specializes in it would have at least short-term memory. Does the name Bernard Madoff ring any bells? Ezra Merkin?

“We gave him everything, we thought he was God, we trusted everything in his hands,” Wiesel said.

… and off.

Ole Miss: A refuge for bigots of all kinds.

This comment alone suggests that the New Jersey Institute of Technology was probably right to fire one of Wharton’s finest.

He is Reference 19 in “Evaluation of Transformative Hermeneutic Heuristics etc. etc.” – an astonishing contribution to the field.

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UD thanks Eric.

… who oversee one of America’s most larcenous, most corrupt universities, the University of Louisville. A local paper wants to know why no one seems to catch all the thieving UL administrators until long after they’ve taken millions… The sports program is WAYYYYY-scuzzy….

Like other criminogenic schools – Wharton, the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Yeshiva – the University of Louisville is a comprehensive model of degeneracy, featuring indifferent trustees, comatose students, and… professors? Are there professors there? Oh – right…

… lose their president.

And then there’s Yeshiva.

Students should never hesitate to ask for help, and UNC has a group of highly trained tutors to whom they can turn.

Former UNC tutor Jennifer Wiley has been indicted for encouraging former North Carolina football player Greg Little to sign with an athlete agent… [S]he also provided Little with $150 before the student-athlete entered into an agency contract, and provided Michael Johnson with a roundtrip airline ticket valued at approximately $579.50 for the benefit of Little to travel between North Carolina and Florida.

Wiley’s no longer part of the UNC academic team (under indictment, etc.), but I’m sure UNC retains other tutors – especially tutors to athletes – willing to help you find an agent or whatever. Don’t be afraid: just ask!

…arians.

… and it’s not that readers and friends haven’t been sending me, over the last few days, all sorts of fascinating stuff. It’s that UD has been flinging herself from one event to the next today (interviewing Fulbright candidates, taking a student out to lunch, being interviewed about MOOCs by eCampus News) and is now tired. She will rest up and do some posting later this evening.