- Trump University, Donald Trump’s latest venture, got a friendly assist this month from Fortune magazine, which suggested some courses that the tycoon might want to include in his curriculum. According to Fortune, the university, which essentially promises to make you rich if you first make Mr. Trump richer (The Chronicle, May 24), should offer such courses as “Understanding the Superlative” (the best ways to use these great terms all the time), “Intro to Accounting: Smoke, Mirrors, and Other Financial Tools” (an introduction to “obscurantism and the fiduciary arts”), and of course “Advanced Accounting: Bankruptcy.”
- An attempted robbery this week at a beauty school in Shreveport, La., suggests that it’s not a good idea to mess with the for-profit sector. According to a report by the Associated Press, a man tried to rob Blalock’s Beauty College on Tuesday, holding the staff at gunpoint while grabbing the money. When he moved to make his getaway, however, the college’s manager tripped him up, jarring the gun loose. One staff member jumped on the robber, and the students, armed with “curling irons, chairs, and a table leg,” held him at bay until the police arrived.
- The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas is boasting a new professorship named for Annie and Willie Nelson, the legendary country musician. But the endowed chair is not in music. It’s also not in acting, tax law, cannabis studies, or other disciplines in which Mr. Nelson has made a name for himself. Rather, it’s a professorship in stem-cell studies. Mr. Nelson and his wife are being recognized for helping to raise $250,000 for the university’s stem-cell program at a concert in March, the Associated Press reported.
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