Nude Marx

The Crimson White
University of Alabama

A man completely nude from the waist down with a Groucho Marx mask covering his face exposed himself outside of a window in an all-female residence hall yesterday night, said residents of the hall.

According to the University of Alabama Police Department, this is the third such incidence of indecent exposure in the last month.

"Two girls went to the elevator and said that there was a naked man standingthere, so we went over and shined the flashlight," Kristen Toulomelis, a freshman nursing major said.

Then the man backed up, did a dance, and ran off, Toulomelis said.

"It was funny, then it was scary," she said. "The police asked us if we knew that most rapists start out as exhibitionists."

Freedom tower?

Daily Texan
University of Texas-Austin

A 21-foot replica of the Eiffel Tower can no longer be found at its original home, on a street corner where it stood for five years.

Frenchman George Dreyfus, owner of the Eiffel Tower replica, said he took the structure down March 18 after receiving threats of vandalism toward the tower.

"Some people threatened to vandalize the tower because the French government is against what Mr. Bush is doing," Dreyfus said.

Dreyfus purchased the replica in France in 1998. He said it is currently in his warehouse for safekeeping.

Dreyfus also said this is not the first time someone has threatened to deface the tower. Two years ago, someone tried to set it on fire for unknown reasons, he said.

Puzzled pig

University Daily Kansan
University of Kansas

For University of Kansas journalism students Zach Lee and Megan Sinclair, an ordinary assignment got them on national television.

Last semester Lee and Sinclair taped a television package about a pig that acted like a dog. The package will be shown on the Animal Planet channel on the show "Amazing Animal Videos."

The pair got the idea from a blurb in the newspaper and drove for 45 minutes to visit the pig's home.

The owners of the pig had put it into the same holding pen as the dogs, and the mother dog began nursing it. Before long, the pig acted exactly like one of the puppies.

"The pig is now a dog," Lee said. "He even fetches and plays with the other dogs."