Last year, more than 10,000 students rallied on the Norlin Quad to demonstrate for marijuana legalization, and to show the public exactly how said legalization might look, with a “smokeout.” This year, to prevent another demonstration, the administration seeded the quad with a fertilizer that included ground-up, stinky fish remnants, which was intended to be more effective than both barrier tape and police presence. As an alternate recreational option, the university also paid for a concert featuring Wyclef Jean.

Efforts weren’t entirely successful. The Denver Post reported that “A much smaller marijuana smokeout occurred on the field near Duane Physics, with about 300 people gathered on the lawn area and another 300 to 400 onlookers,” and fewer than a thousand people went to the concert. Three students who went onto the smelly quad were also arrested.  The bill for all this? More than $278,000. Anyone in the comment section want to hazard a guess on how many joints you could roll with that?

Kenjeev told Business Insider, which picked up the story after someone posted a photo of his deposit receipt to Reddit, that he “didn’t really realize how much of a hassle I’d cause for everybody.”

Kenjeev, who thought it would be funny to pay off his loan in cash, a mere three years after his 2009 graduation, may have underestimated the emotional toll his symbolic gesture took on others. After all, while Kenjeev had posted the photo to Facebook, Business Insider found it on Reddit, meaning that someone Kenjeev knows is probably the culprit. A jealous law school friend? A debt-laden, unemployed acquaintance? Kenjeev doesn’t know either. He adds: “Some people have taken it pretty offensively. I actually think they have a point. It hadn’t really occurred to me.”

The LBJ school, in its apology letter to graduates, notes that the error originated with the printers, and promised to mail new, wholesome copies. The school also made apologies over Twitter, though that may not have aided their cause, as the Tweet was also misspelled:

Then again, we at The Chronicle can’t sit on too high a horse. It shames us to admit that we once sent out a tweet beginning with the abbreviation for University of North Texas (UNT), which is innocuous on its own, but when presented after the large ‘C’ that makes up our logo, makes for a decidedly unfortunate sentence.

Both of the Tweets in question have been corrected, and quickly too. If only print were so easy.

H/T to Evan Smith of The Texas Tribune for the original image.

A group of students at Brown University created this video challenging stereotypes about scientists as part of a course on science communication.

Harvard University’s baseball team went viral this week with a choreographed lip-synch of Carly Rae Jepsen’s “Call Me Maybe” performed in a team van. (And yes, the guy in the back, Jack Colton, really did sleep through the whole thing.)

A research team at Emory University did MRI scans of the brains of two dogs as part of a study into the thought processes of man’s — and woman’s — best friend.

Temple University created a time-lapse video of workers setting up chairs for Thursday’s commencement, the university’s 125th. As the video plays, the Temple “T” is revealed in the chair colors.

Henry Rollins, former singer for the iconic punk band Black Flag, offers advice to the young. The money quote: “That’s why you can survive on no sleep, Top Ramen noodles, and dental floss.”

A freshman at the University of California at Berkeley shows off his Berkeley Ridiculously Automated Dorm room, or BRAD.

Mr. Traxler, who was chairman of the accounting program at the Globe University/Minnesota School of Business at Shakopee,  was sentenced on Tuesday to five years in prison for defrauding banks of $8-million through bogus mortgage deals that took place before the school hired him, in 2009, the Minneapolis StarTribune reports.

He taught the for-profit business school’s fraud course three times and was voted the top faculty member in his first year there. He continued teaching at the school after the charges were filed.

Mr. Traxler was an accountant, senior vice president, and chief financial officer of Centennial Mortgage and Funding Inc., in 2007-8. He pleaded guilty last October, the newspaper reports, to “misleading lenders about the status of existing mortgage loans to get them to advance Centennial more money; helping conceal defaults on existing mortgage loans; hiding the fact that about two dozen mortgage loans were double-funded; and kiting checks between Centennial’s various bank accounts.” He used the money to cover Centennial’s payroll and keep the company afloat.

After he had admitted to his various crimes, the StarTribune reports, the business school’s faculty dean, Linda VanDuzee, and the campus director, Bruce Christman, wrote to the court, “It would be a significant blow to our students and staff if Mr. Traxler were to leave our school.”

Perhaps he won’t have to. The Minnesota School of Business offers online courses. Enroll now, while you still can!

The Missourian newspaper reported that Abby Spudich, managing editor of The Maneater, resigned Tuesday in response to an outcry over her paper’s April 1 issue, which bore the name The Carpeteater, an offensive term used to describe lesbians. Ms. Spudich had apologized to readers for that and for articles that contained derogatory names for women. But after receiving a “mixed response” from readers, she decided to resign.

Effective today at noon, Travis Cornejo, The Maneater’s editor in chief, also resigned — even though by tradition the newspaper’s staff  assembles the content of the April Fool’s issue “as a sort of surprise” for their boss. He did not see the content before it was published.

Mr. Cornejo wrote in his letter of resignation that while he had tried to “take a backseat” as Ms. Spudich handled the fallout over the issue, he was instead perceived as displaying an “apathetic attitude.”

Does the student paper on your campus still publish an April Fool’s issue? If so, is it funny, sophomoric, offensive, or all three? Should student journalists be forgiven for their missteps, or should they take their lumps? Let us know in the comments.

—Don Troop

Next Media Animation, the Taiwanese Web site that uses animation to imagine the news, gives its usual treatment to the plans for Yale-NUS College in Singapore. Don’t miss the part where Yale President Richard C. Levin helps a student do a keg stand.

If you’ve never visited the Web site of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, you’re missing out. Its All About Birds guide allows visitors to sample the sounds and sights of 585 species, and right now the lab is live-streaming video of a pair of nesting great blue herons. Below, the camera catches the couple soaring to the four-foot-wide nest, where their eggs are expected to hatch at the end of this month.

An animator tells how he dealt with a cheating incident during his first semester of college.

The University of Cincinnati Libraries created a video slide show of its celebration of the International Edible Book Festival.