Originally Posted by roachboy

you cant make any judgments about the "validity" of a claim from a unversity's reactions to adverse press, even in the whackjob form that this comes in.

addendum: this because universities tend to be to say the least jumpy about negative press. i have tons of stories about this kind of thing, some involving very prestigious schools which find themselves embroiled in very nasty situations thanks to the actions of some drunken student often.