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January 24, 2006, 12:32 PM ET
Campus Officials Fight a 'Wacky' Web Site
For months, students at Columbia College Chicago have been buzzing about Wacky Warrick, a Web site that mercilessly spoofs the institution’s president, Warrick L. Carter. In a pair of well-produced, animated videos, the site’s anonymous creators lampoon the president for his spending practices, his tuition hikes, and even his voice.
And the buzz has only intensified now that one of the masterminds of Wacky Warrick has been unmasked. Mark Phillips, recent graduate of the college and part-time staffer at its Science Institute, has been fired after campus investigators determined that he was one of the people behind the presidential parody.
The firing has upset some campus officials, who say the college has no business policing a particularly well-executed example of free speech. But employees at the Science Institute are even more troubled by the college’s tactics: Investigators entered the institute in the middle of the night and scanned several computers for evidence that Mr. Phillips had worked on the Web site while he was on the college’s clock. (Columbia Chronicle)
Categories: Legal-Troubles, Student-Life
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