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Even the famous are subject to scathing student evaluations on ratemyprofessors.com.
Michael Dukakis, Maya Angelou, and Joyce Carol Oates. (Photograph of Michael Dukakis from ZUMA Press; Maya Angelou by Judy Watson Tracy, Rollins College; Joyce Carol Oates by John Jameson, Princeton U.)

ACADEMIC MUSCLE: A professor at Bridgewater State College won the world weightlifting championship for her age and weight group.

TRUE CRIME: Reports from campus police logs.

'HI MOM!' St. Olaf College has installed a Web cam for students to send greetings to their families and friends back home.

A RIOT OF TITLES: In academe there is a journal for every subcategory of every subdiscipline.