Last month, a student newspaper published a shocking story: Reporters at the Mountain Echo wrote that Mount St. Mary’s University’s new president planned to cull 20-25 students from the freshman class deemed unlikely to succeed in the first weeks of school in order to improve the college’s retention numbers and thus its rankings. And when discussing the plan with professors who objected to it, President Simon Newman told them — in a conversation that was independently confirmed by the Washington Post —  that they needed to stop thinking of freshmen as “cuddly bunnies,” and said: “You just have to drown the bunnies … put a Glock to their heads.” On Monday, the faculty advisor to the Echo was fired.

February 8, 2016 ・ From The Washington Post