Some faculty have all the luck.

". . . cardboard box. . . full of $50 and $100 bills bundled in paper bands, totaling $180,000."

"A portion of his salary was deposited in a Chinese bank account and the remainder — an amount he estimated as between $50,000 and $100,000 — was paid in $100 bills, which he carried home in his luggage."

Journal retracts 122 papers at once [Retraction Watch]

 The flava:

A SAGE journal has retracted 122 papers because of “clear indicators that the submission and/or peer review process for these papers was manipulated.”

The article:

https://retractionwatch.com/2021/12/15/journal-retracts-122-papers-at-once/

A professor told me [youtube]

 

Reese's Just Launched a University for Peanut Butter Cup Fans [Food & Wine]

The flava:

For peanut butter-based candy, the Reese's name reigns supreme thanks in no small part to their enormously popular peanut butter cups. Now, the Hershey-owned brand wants to bring that expertise to the masses (kind of) with the launch of their new eponymous Reese's University.

Admittedly, Reese's repeatedly cites their own lawyers as saying "Reese's University is not a real University," but the concept remains the same: a fictional institution of higher education, albeit one with a real nickname, the Fighting Cuppies, and a real mascot with a giant peanut butter cup head. The school also boasts an insanely high 99.99-percent acceptance rate.

The article:

https://www.foodandwine.com/news/reeses-university