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Wednesday, April 7, 2004
Class for sale
AGGIElt
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Student put seats in class up for grabs on eBa
By Jennifer Peltz
KRT CAMPUS
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DAVIE, Fla. — Nova Southeastern University prides itself
on teaching entrepreneurship and offering what a magazine
survey called the nation’s most technologically wired law
school.
So when first-year law student Ryan Vescio
got himself a spot in prominent professor Bruce
Rogow’s coveted constitutional law II class
next fall, what did he do?
Put it up for auction on eBay.
“Rogow’s Constitutional Law 2 Class”
appeared this week on the virtual auction block,
sandwiched between AA batteries and a com
memorative stamp panel.
Vescio offered to trade classes with “the
lucky winner” of a semester with Rogow,
known for representing the Palm Beach County
Canvassing Board in the 2000 presidential elec
tion dispute and celebrity lawyer F. Lee Bailey
in his disbarment, among other high-profile
clients.
The auction was, Vescio says, intended just
to lighten the mood at a school clenched with
pre-exam tension.
“We study about all these serious, stern top
ics, and everybody, I think, needs to just have a
joke now and then,” said Vescio, 23, who grew
up in Melbourne, Fla., and graduated from the
University of Central Florida last year.
school administration told Vescio Wednesday to cease anddesi
He promptly did.
“We were impressed by the entrepreneurial nature of iU;
offended ... that this is making a mockery of what is a serioi
attempt to create equal opportunities to take classes,” said is
ciate dean Pat Jason.
Rogow couldn’t be reached Thursday
Registration in the roughly $23,OOO-a-jn Joust
We were impressed by
the entrepreneurial
nature of it, but offended
... that this is making a
mockery of what is a
serious attempt to create
equal opportunities to
take classes.
program generally is first-come, first-sene;
with some preferences for a given sequent!
courses.
Night students get preference in nightxom
es. and day students in day ones.
A student can’t assign his orherspottoi
classmate, though students have beenknon:
try to trade through well-timed droppings
adding
To Jason, the auction strained the boun!-
anes of l aw Center rules calling for “prots^ferem
sional” conduct, particularly since heusei
school’s e-mail system to spread the word
his auction.
Vescio sent out an e-mail apology
— Pat Jason
associate dean of
Nova Southeastern University
rimrsday. Jason said administratorsdont[i holdii
disciplinary action against him but
students to stop soliciting class swaps lb,
school e-mail.
eBay generally would stop a sale sucli
\ cm io s. questioning whether the sellertoM^t w
owned the item and could deliver it inef
required 30 days, said spokesman Kevie
But to Vescio’s surprise, some fellow students took his joke
seriously. The offer drew 19 bids of up to $225 before the law
Purseglove. But with about I2 million items for sale in a givt
day. the online auction service often doesn’t spot a question^
offer until alerted to it. he said.
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NEWS IN BRIEF
Pennsylvanians must
pay parking tickets or
risk car seizure
BLOOMSBURG, Pa. (AP) — Officials in
this northeastern Pennsylvania town
have a message for scofflaws: Pay your
parking tickets, or the next car you buy
may be your own.
Police Chief Leo Sokoloski asked a
court Thursday to give the town title to five
vehicles that were seized for repeated,
unpaid parking violations.
Sokoloski said none of the cars were
ever reclaimed by their owners, even
during “amnesty" programs that allow
forgiveness of parking fines. It costs
the town $5 per day to store each
vehicle.
The owner of one of the vehicles,
Michael Hess, signed over his 1988
Isuzu Trooper to the town instead of
paying more than S3,000 in parking
fines, saying he had been out of work
and had only recently gained employ
ment again.
The other four owners, at least three
of whom are alleged to owe more than
$2,000 each in fines, did not show up
in court.
Police capture man
videotaping Pasadena
production
PASADENA, Calif. (AP) — One person
apparently thought the Pasadena
Playhouse’s stage production of “Dirty
Blonde” was worth immortalizing.
Police were called to the theater Sunday
after a man was caught illegally videotap
ing an afternoon performance
about the actress Mae West, officials^:
Lead actress Claudia Shear noticed:
man videotaping, came down from:
stage and asked the man for the tape.a
he refused to turn it over, said Playtiots
spokesman Ken Novice.
“The audience then got into the a®
and began chanting ’Give backfe
tape!”’ he said.
After police were called to the tale
the man turned over the tape aim
escorted away, Novice said. Polices
the problem was resolved witfiouth
dent.
Novice said Playhouse officials will
ask police to charge the man,
not identified, with illegal videotaping^
man told officials he arrived late audit
not hear the announcement or sees
written notice in the program wa«
against videotaping, Novice said
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