Online School That Gave Cat an MBA Is Sued

[ChoralScholar]

http://www.wjla.com/headlines/1204/192664.html


HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) - The Pennsylvania attorney general's office Monday sued an online university for allegedly selling bogus academic degrees - including an MBA awarded to a cat.

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 fake degrees and prescription drugs by spam e-mail, according to the lawsuit.

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

The school, which offers no classes, allegedly determined Colby Nolan's resume entitled him to a master of business administration degree; a transcript listed the cat's course work and 3.5 grade-point average.

A phone message left at Trinity Southern was not returned Monday. None of the other three defendants appears to have a listed or published phone number.

[complain jane]

1. Well my cat's pretty smart

[ChoralScholar]

2. I've worked with some MBAs that could've taken a backseat

to a domestic pet in the management department...

[progressoid]

3. Jeepers, I hope they don't investigate the people that made me an

ordained minister. I'm going to declare my house a church and seek tax exempt status.

[Menshevik]

4. Shrub got an MBA

so who is to say a cat can't have one?

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

5. Colby the cat would certainly be a better president.

He also wouldn't dress up in silly-looking fake military uniforms, or choke on pretzels, or fall off Segways, or laugh like Beavis and Butthead, or start wars to impress his daddy. Colby Nolan for President!

[Champ]

6. Cute Story, but....

DUPE :)