Online University That Gave Cat Diploma Sued For Fraud

[Champ]

HARRISBURG, Pa. -- An online university that supposedly granted a graduate degree in business to a pet cat was sued Monday for consumer fraud by the Pennsylvania Attorney General's Office.

Trinity Southern University in Texas, a cellular company and the two brothers who ran them are accused of misappropriating Internet addresses of the state Senate and more than 60 Pennsylvania businesses to sell bogus academic degrees and prescription drugs by spam e-mail, according to the lawsuit.

Investigators paid $299 for a bachelor's degree for a Colby Nolan -- actually a deputy attorney general's 6-year-old black cat -- claiming he had experience that included baby-sitting and retail management.

On Trinity Southern's Web site, where the price for a doctorate is $499, the school said it awards degrees "to individuals with the same working knowledge as a recent college graduate from a traditional university."

http://www.local10.com/news/3976730/detail.html

[Lavender Brown]

1. My cat has a PhD

:P

[Cush]

6. mine has a Masters in Power Cord & Wire Chewing

[flamingyouth]

2. I think this line is the clincher:

The school said it awards degrees "to individuals with the same working knowledge as a recent college graduate from a traditional university." HAHAHAHAHAHA :7

[WildClarySage]

3. Damn, I paid wayyyyyyyy more than $200 bucks

for a bachelor's degree AND had to actually work to get it.

And still I can't seem to get a job, either. Welcome to Bu$hAmerica.

[Bill McBlueState]

4. TSU's website

http://www.trinitysouthernuniversity.org/

Sad but funny.

"Perspective students submit a detailed self-evalution for the degree of their choice, BA, BS, MA, MBA, or PhD. A TSU registrar will evaluate your application within 5-7 days and contact you via email with the results of their evaluation."

Ha ha hah! A "detailed self-evalution." Aside from the utter comedy of evaluating yourself to get a degree, I think they mean "evaluation" not "evalution."

And, ummm, its "prospective," not "perspective."

[mahatmakanejeeves]

5. I think they mean "evaluation" not "evalution."

Evalution is just a theory.

[Endangered Specie]

7. In my case that online schools are absolutely bogus...

and their degrees are worthless and meaningless... Your Honor, I submit this as evidence A, and rest my case.

[SmokingJacket]

8. My cat is a minister. Really! I paid $10 and had him ordained. n/t

[MrsCheaplaugh]

9. My Cletus has a phd in purring... n/t