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Professors Behaving Badly: 11 Shocking Academic Scandals

Professors Behaving Badly: 11 Shocking Academic Scandals
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Professors are supposed to serve as academic mentors and points of inspiration -- but sometimes, their life-teaching skills just don't make the grade.

Below, check out 11 college professors (and administrators) who might ask you to "do as I say, not as I do."

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Professors Behaving Badly
Tihomir Petrov(01 of03)
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Although Tihomir Petrov, former professor of mathematics at UC Irvine, maintains that he is not guilty of the two counts of public urination with which he has been charged for peeing on his colleague's door, prosecutors say his second act of outer-bathroom waste release has been caught on tape. Apparently, Petrov was in a dispute with a fellow professor preceding the alleged, er, marking of territory. (credit:Flickr:{Guerrilla Futures | Jason Tester})
Edward Wegman(02 of03)
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If allegations against George Mason University professor Edward Wegman -- author of the 2006 report which argued against global warming -- prove true, he will have to own up not only to having plagiarized close to one third of his study, but to having taken some of it straight from Wikipedia. Whoops.
Marc Hauser (03 of03)
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Last August, former Harvard professor Marc Hauser was found "solely responsible" for eight counts of scientific misconduct. In addition to throwing Harvard into hot water -- the university's reputation took a hit for keeping investigations into allegations against Hauser under wraps -- the professor's slip-ups "may cast a shadow over the broad field of scientific research that depended on the particular research technique often used in his experiments," according to the New York Times. (credit:Getty)

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