Purdue students charged with hacking professors' accounts and changing grades

Asians behaving badly... grade-tampering college student edition! At Purdue University, three students are facing several felony charges after hacking into their professors' computer accounts and changing their grades to better scores: Police: Purdue engineering students tampered with professors' accounts, changed grades.

Sujay Sharma, Mitsutoshi Shirasaki and Roy Sun were charged in Tippecanoe Superior Court with multiple offenses, including conspiracy to commit computer tampering, conspiracy to commit burglary and conspiracy to commit computer trespass.

According to court documents, Shirasaki had been installing key-logging devices in various keyboards in classrooms and professors' offices to obtain their passwords. Ds and Fs were changes to As or Bs, Cs were changed to As, and when they got really greedy, As were even changed to A-pluses:

sign the petition to establish an asian/asian american resource and cultural center at purdue university

Here's something I can definitely get behind. I've heard from several students about a growing movement to establish an Asian and Asian American Resource and Cultural Center at Purdue University: Time now for Asian culture center, Purdue students say.

The center would provide institutional support for the cultural and social needs of the school's significant Asian student population -- including the second-largest international student population among U.S. public universities -- which accounts for nearly a quarter of Purdue's enrollment.

Students have started an online petition that's quickly gaining momentum: