Sometimes things in good ol’ College Park can get you down. State budget cuts are threatening academic quality. Santa Fe is closed. The Terps almost lost to freaking James Madison.

But then there are bits of news that make you glad you’re a Terrapin. For example, after 130 years, Southeastern University in D.C. has lost its accreditation, Daniel De Vise reports in the Washington Post. The school won’t be offering classes in the fall. So if you went there, your credits might be worthless and you’d be scrambling to find a new school. That 50-person “seminar” doesn’t seem so bad now, does it?

Also, Maryland wasn’t Rick-Rolled on a massive scale like MIT was, according to The Telegraph. Students there painted the first eight notes of Rick Astley’s “Never Gonna Give You Up” on a campus building:

MIT Students painted the notes to "Never Gonna Give You Up" on a campus dome. Greg Steinbrecher/The Tech.

Students have plastered the first eight notes of Rick Astley’s Never Gonna Give You Up on scaffolding surrounding the Boston research centre’s Great Dome.

The pranksters dreamed up the sophisticated stunt after noticing that the horizontal lines of the scaffolding cover resembled unfilled sheet music.

It’s all part of an MIT tradition of pulling pranks, or what they call “hacks.”

Or you could be like the students at Drew-Freeman Middle School in Suitland and arrive at school in the morning, only to see a stolen truck has shamed into your school’s music rooms, as The Gazette reports.

And no Maryland student has recently killed an intruder with a samurai sword. The (Baltimore) Sun’s Liz F. Kay reports the student killed a man who broke in to the garage of his off-campus house.

Quick Hit

• The embattled chairman of the Maryland GOP has abruptly resigned.
• A Baltimore-related scandal involving ACORN continues to unfold.

What’s Happening

• The Dingman Center for Entrepreneuership is offering legal assistance hours.
• The Public Policy school is offering a policy workshop on “Environmental Justice: Reflections of a Sympathetic Skeptic.“

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