Alex FriedrichHaving made its list of scandals, The Huffington Post continues down the dark path with its list of Worst College Role Models of 2010. Here’s the abbreviated list:
- Karen Owen. The Duke student’s “thesis” — a tell-all comparison of the men she’d slept with — took the Internet by storm.
- Phusion Projects. Drinking the company’s alcoholic stimulant drink Four Loko carried some nasty consequences.
- Glenn Beck. His screwball Glenn Beck University was perhaps the year’s first piece of bad news for online schools.
- For-profit universities. Deceptive marketing, low graduation rates, high government loan default rates. And high executive salaries.
- Andrew Shirvell. Former Michigan assistant attorney targeted University of Michigan’s student body president Chris Armstrong for being gay. His rants were bizarre.
- Bobby Jindal. The Louisiana governor incensed students with his higher education budget cuts.
- Columbia University. Rude, unhygienic biz students. Unfriendly undergrads. Big drug bust. Incestuous political science professor.
- Mark Yudof. The University of California president — and former University of Minnesota chief — caused an uproar when he cost the University of California more than $600,000 in damages to his rented mansion.
- Cecilia Chang. The former St. John’s University dean (no, not our St. John’s) accused of embezzlement and exploitation of working students.
- Marc Hauser. The Harvard evolutionary biologist was responsible for eight counts of scientific misconduct, which Harvard has apparently been loathe to fully explain.
- Delta Kappa Epsilon, Yale Chapter. Offensive, vulgar pledge chants riled the campus.
