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the decision was aimed at cutting the “significant expense” and the admissions office was trying to avoid adding insult to injury by sending rejection letters to applicants who had already gotten the news online.

Should the HR departments of downsizing universities be aware of IT threats?

“Yes,” said Dawn Cappelli, a Carnegie Mellon University information-security expert who has worked with the U.S. Secret Service to build behavioral profiles of “insider threats.”

Will we never learn? "The couple said they complied, and the officers prepared to search their home. Mr. Slaughter, a six-foot, 285-pound former Marine, said he then told them, “Look fellas, do you guys realize that I’m a U.S. Customs K-9 officer at the San Luis land port?” ...

Mr. Slaughter, whose family lives on East 26th Street, said he learned later that the illegal immigrant sought by the officers lived on East 26th Place. ... The officers, Mr. Slaughter said, should have checked the name on property records, “or they could have watched me walk out of my house every day wearing my uniform.”

“They bullied their way into my house — the same organization that I work for, doing 16-hour shifts,” Mr. Slaughter said. “I bleed red, white and blue. I serve my country, and then they do this to me?”