Inter-Varsity
Over 600 Edinburgh freshers have volunteered to snog for science as part of a university's study into glandular fever. Edinburgh Doctors recently received a £700,000 grant to find out why 5% of students contract the disease. Professor Dorothy Crawford, who is leading the study said, that the keen volunteers were "clearly committed to supporting today's research to help the students of tomorrow".
Officials in Boston are bribing undergrads to become teachers. $20,000 is up for grabs for anyone who is brave enough to enter Massachusetts' classrooms and in the top ten per cent of their class. But some people just cannot be bought: "It doesn't offer much more of an incentive for me," one saintly sould said. "I would teach for free, if I could."
18th Nov 1999