Lundi soir, l'Université a fait évacuer une jeune fille de 18 ans, en taxi à 2h du mat. Motif ? L'administration venait juste de découvrir, après 8 mois, que cette personne n'était pas élève à Stanford, alors qu'elle suivait des cours, achetait ses livres, étudiait avec ses camarades. Mais surtout, elle occupait illégalement un logement dans une des résidences étudiantes.
En gros, elle avait fait croire à tout le monde, y compris ses proches, qu'elle avait été acceptée à Stanford. Elle s'était ensuite débrouillée pour occuper la chambre d'un étudiant parti étudier à l'étranger. Comme elle n'avait pas la clé, elle entrait pas la fenêtre. Certes, elle avait une colloc, mais celle ci n'était pratiquement jamais là car elle dormait chez son copain.
Evidemment, le journal de Stanford ne parle plus que de ça :

Azia Kim was like any other Stanford freshman. She graduated from one of California’s most competitive high schools last June, moved into the dorms during New Student Orientation, talked about upcoming tests and spent her free time with friends.The only problem is that Azia Kim was never a Stanford student.

Kim, an 18-year-old from Orange County who graduated from Fullerton’s Troy High School, lived in Kimball throughout fall and winter quarter. She lived in Okada, the Asian-American theme dorm, until Monday night, when University staff finally caught onto her ruse.

Friends aren’t sure of her motive for sneaking onto campus and living a lie, but many speculate that she felt pressure from overbearing parents to attend Stanford — regardless of whether she was admitted.

Suite de l'article :http://stanforddaily.com/article/2007/5/24/imposterCaught

Autre article : http://daily.stanford.edu/article/2007/5/25/yearbookForcedKimsExposure

Et ce qui est encore plus marrant, c'est que les révélations sur A.Kim (la fausse étudiante) on incité les élèves du département de physique à dénoncer la présence dans leurs locaux depuis 4 ANS d'une femme bizarre, sans doute SDF, qui prétend être visiting scholar et être rattaché au département de musicologie.

For the last four years, Elizabeth Okazaki has attended graduate physics seminars, used the offices reserved for doctoral and post-doctoral physics students and — for all intents and purposes made the Varian Physics Lab her home.

The only problem is that Okazaki appears to have no affiliation with Stanford and, according to physics professors and students, no real reason to be there.

Even more surprising on the heels of Azia Kim’s exposure as a squatter in Okada yesterday, Varian administrators know that Okazaki has become a permanent presence in the lab and yet claim to be able to do nothing about it.

In interviews with The Daily, several theoretical particle physics graduate students said that Okazaki has been in the lab almost every day over the last four years. At various points in time, they claim, she has assumed a locker space, procured rooms in which to sleep and perhaps even acquired a key to enter the building after-hours and over the weekend.

Okazaki, the students said, has claimed to be a visiting scholar in the humanities, looking to provide an interdisciplinary perspective on string theory. On several instances, she has said that she was working with Physics Prof. Leonard Susskind, one of the world’s most respected string theorists.

But Susskind told The Daily that Okazaki was not officially associated with him or his lab in any way.

“As far as I know, she has no official connection with anyone in the physics department,” Susskind said. “In fact, as far as I can tell, she has a very limited knowledge of physics itself.”

Suite de l'article :
http://daily.stanford.edu/article/2007/5/25/imposterIiFourYearsInVarian