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March 6, 2010, 04:55 PM ET

One Way (Not) to Get Student Aid

If your son attends a college rife with guns and drugs, you shouldn't have to pay full freight. That seems to be the thinking behind one father's alleged attempt to blackmail the dean of students at Harcum College, a two-year institution in Bryn Mawr, Pa.

When the father, Vincent Guadini, himself an alumnus of Harcum, received a bill for $3,000 in unpaid dorm fees for his son Michael, he allegedly e-mailed the dean asking him to waive the fees in return for Mr. Guadini's silence about drugs and guns on the campus, The Philadelphia Inquirer reports. Fox News reports that county officials found the accusations about the college to be false. Mr. Guadini, a former police officer, now faces counts of extortion, attempted theft, and other crimes in county court.

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1. mvclibrary - March 08, 2010 at 10:41 am

Yet another case of a parent taking his or her child's word as gospel.

2. johntoradze - March 08, 2010 at 12:24 pm

But is it? How do you know that Guadini wasn't correct? After all, he went to the school himself...

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