[1177] in Humor
HUMOR: Brain Fight!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andrew A. Bennett)
Thu Nov 2 16:26:03 1995
To: humor@MIT.EDU
Date: Thu, 02 Nov 1995 16:16:43 EST
From: "Andrew A. Bennett" <abennett@MIT.EDU>
Date: Thu, 2 Nov 95 16:14:13 EST
From: mabehr@MIT.EDU (Michael Behr)
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Tokyo, Japan:
Kashima University has expelled four medical students
for pelting other students with human brains.
School officials say the three men and one woman were
dissecting cadavers in the science laboratory when one
of the males removed part of a cerebral cortex from a
corpse's skull and threw it at one of the other medical
students.
Within minutes a "brain fight" had broken out.
The students then reportedly opened the windows of the
second-floor lab and began throwing the brains down on
unwitting passersby on the street below. One girl was
hit in the face and required treatment at the
university's emergency room.
School security officers say they're fairly certain
that more people were involved in the brain-throwing
but only four were witnessed.
The expelled students said they didn't plan the brain
fight. One of them said, "It just sort of happened." He
blamed the odd behavior on the pressure of constant
study and lack of sleep.
"We just had to let off some steam," admitted Ayako
Hanyu, 19. "I guess things got a little out of hand."
But Dean Shiuro Tatsuno refuses to budge on his
decision to expel the students.
"We realize that our medical students are under
pressure," said Dean Tatsuno.
"But we expect our future doctors and nurses to conduct
themselves like ladies and gentlemen at all times."
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