Sometimes, stories don't exactly fit one category or another. Here are a bunch of stories that were either particularly funny, particularly sad, or both.

Fired professor sues law college // EDUCATION: A retired judge says he was dismissed in part for criticizing the school for admitting students with no aptitude for the law

Drill team given LSD-laced gum

Long arm of the law just a finger in this case

AHH-CHOOOO! IT'S A SICK COUNTY

Irvine teacher's book censoring a study in irony

School spices up lunch menu with fast food

THIS IS SCHOOLWORK? // EDUCATION: Chapman University students tossing flying discs for credit

LEAVING THE NEST // EDUCATION: As Chapman University freshmen arrive on the Orange campus to face a new life, parents face the end of an era

They don't have to be very funny; they're smart

Virginal revolution? College group rallies for chastity

Professor fights for right to sex with coeds // EDUCATION: A Cal State Long Beach sociologist establishes himself as a defender of such relationships

Coke's in, Pepsi's out at Cal State Long Beach

CHILDREN HELPING CHILDREN // CHARITY: Rwandan orphans' suffering touches Capistrano sixth-graders

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Source: Dan Froomkin.