Mission 002: Dig Up Some Dirt

Greetings fellow readers! It is I, Kate, your fun loving Wednesday correspondent!
This week we're talking about weird news stories. I found so many that I really wanted to write about that I'm going to do another on my personal blog which is on tumblr and blogspot now. Blogspot is more likely to be up to date though.

Fifty-something year old Joseph Corlett wrote a journal as part of a university assignment which he handed up to his professor. Students were encouraged to be creative and write about whatever they wanted in this journal. So naturally, being a human being, Corlett decided to write about how sexy his professor was, her "stacked" body, and her "sexy little mole on her upper lip." He also makes repeated reference to the fact that he was drinking while writing. His entire journal can be seen here.
His professor then reported his behaviour as harassment and Corbett was suspended from school. But the story doesn't end there. Outraged, Corbett sued the school, claiming his First Amendment right to freedom of speech was being infringed upon. The judge however ruled that telling your college professor in writing that she is "stacked" and gives you a boner is not speech legally protected by the First Amendment.

Clearly there were much better ways for Corbett to go about expressing his attraction to his teacher but when you tell your students they can write about whatever they want, you need to be prepared for some weird stuff. However I do think Corbett deserved the repercussions the university gave him. He asked in his journal for his teacher's confidence in the things he was writing to her which was completely unfair and must have made the professor really uncomfortable. I mean he may not have taken it any further once she made it clear she wasn't interested in him but she was still right in reporting him, of course.

Now some more uplifting news involving a millionaire stripper. Yep.
33 year old, Tara Mishra, started her career as an exotic dancer when she was just 18 years young. Her dream to open a New Jersey nightclub encouraged her to start saving and just 15 years later she felt she had gotten enough money together. In March 2012 she was stopped for speeding and police were given permission to search the car. Over one million dollars were found stored in $10,000 bundles in plastic bags.
Understandably, the police assumed it was drug money and Mishra and her friends were arrested.
In July 2013 a judge ruled that her million dollars worth of life savings be paid back to her with interest.

Excuse my french, but how the fuck do you earn 1 million dollars (!) from dancing. Like seriously, why is stripping a job that is so frowned upon? Some people are smart, so they use their brain to get a good paying job. Some people are beautiful so why is it a big deal that they use their body to get a job that pays better than so many qualification jobs. (And clearly neither of these are necessarily independant of the other.)  Society guys. It's fucked up. I'm starting to think maybe I should give up on school and go get some dance lessons.

That's all from me, folks! See you same time, same place next Wednesday!

Kate