What's the craziest secret drama that went down at a university?

Professors were purchasing tricked-out laptops with their budgets shortly before leaving the university.

The university, in turn, would let the professors purchase the hardware for a song because it was used.

We're talking about two to three thousand euro machines being purchased six months down the

line for 500 euros. Someone finally caught on at this scheme and now nobody can purchase the

used hardware. I work for a prominent university in Japan. My Japanese colleagues tend to follow the

rules very strictly and blindly follow manuals. One day an American

professor had to rush to the US to see his dying mother. The staff members of class operations

called him as he was grieving, asking him to still teach classes and review reports. Obviously,

the lack of empathy and inflexibility led the professor to take his bags and work for another

school.

Students never knew the true reason why he stopped teaching.

My teacher was Syrian. He was practically always at university, always tired, and always acting off.

He had sleep in his office, forget to hand back assignments, mix up basic things, cry randomly in the hallway. We later found

out his family was being held hostage back home while he was teaching in Canada. The two parts

that break my heart are that students used to hate him. I always liked him as a person and as a teacher

he was competent. He was just always late for everything and would mix up grades. I'd be annoyed, but sitting

in his office and going through stuff, he'd always correct mistakes and was fair with his grading.

He gave good feedback. When I found out the circumstances, it made me sad, because he isolated himself

on the emotional side. If he wanted help, he was always there at your beck and call. If you wanted

a meeting, he was there.

I just wish we, as students could have shown a bit more compassion. The second part that kills me is

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