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In October Bill Tilney, the mayor of El Paso, Texas, presented residents in the northeast part of the city with the award for having the best neighborhood crime watch, citing the area’s four years of no crime–except for a drug-related double murder two weeks before the ceremony.
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University of Oklahoma law school adjunct professor Annette Prince, apparently to show support for her colleague Anita Hill, stood on her desk during an October lecture and stripped down to her T-shirt, which read “Anita Hill Plus Will Rogers Equals Okie Pride.”
University of Tennessee football player Tom Myslinski attracted press attention this fall with his pregame ritual: listening to heavy-metal music while banging his unhelmeted head “hard” against a shower-room wall, followed by vomiting in the locker room. “I don’t know why I do it,” said Myslinski. “It’s really stupid when you think about it.”
