Snip from Boston Globe story:
The head of policy studies at the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth wants the university to suspend a student who made up a story about being grilled by federal antiterrorism agents over a library book and to reprimand faculty members who spread the tale.
Following the student's admission Friday that it was a hoax, Clyde Barrow, chairman of the policy studies department, said UMass should punish the student and faculty members, in particular two history professors who repeated the unsubstantiated assertion of the history student to a New Bedford Standard-Times reporter.
(…) "It's unbelievable that this student is not being suspended for a semester," wrote Barrow, who said he does not know the student's identity. "It's even more unbelievable that the faculty who jumped the gun on this story and actively promoted it on campus, the Internet, and blogs will walk away from their misconduct without any consequences."
Link to story, and here is previous Boing Boing coverage.
As one eloquent BB buddy put it earlier this week, "There's already enough weird stuff going on in America right now — it's not like anyone needs to make shit up."
