Blog Thug Squad: The Brandeis Communications Dept.

We can understand how working for the Brandeis communications office these days might make you a bit tetchy, but why would you take it out on the blogs? A man identified as Brandeis communications director David Nathan did just that. Using an anonymous email, Nathan allegedly demanded that blogger Felix Salmon remove a blog post he had written about Brandeis's Rose Art Museum because it suffered from unspecified "factual errors." The silver lining? Salmon managed to learn that "all of the Rose Art Museum's artworks are considered to be assets of the university endowment, valued at $1 each." Any profit from a sale, therefore, will result in an immediate gain for the endowment—the probable rationale behind dissolving the museum and selling off its stock. [Market Movers]