UConn student allegedly steals professor's password and changes a variety of grades.

High-five! You're being arraigned!

Eighteen-year-old Omar Faraj, of Mystic, CT, was charged with allegedly stealing his University of Connecticut chemistry professor's password, accessing a grading database, and changing his own grade from a C to an A-.

Faraj also changed four fellow students' grades for the better as well, and--really pushing all his chips into the center of the table--he changed four more students' grades for the worse.

This took some time, apparently, as authorities claim he accessed his professor's account on a couple of occasions, and all the alleged grade-changing led to triggering an automatic email warning to the professor, who then notified officials.

Faraj gets an A for effort! (((rim-shot)))

No?

No. Faraj was expelled from the school, and charged with forgery and computer crime complaints, which he was to be arraigned for in New London, CT, court.

BREAKING NEWS: UConn student who wanted his "(expletive) bacon-jalapeno mac and cheese" has been expelled.

Luke Gatti, the very passionate mac and cheese lover who was arrested after causing a hubbub at UConn's food court, has reportedly been expelled from the school.

Here was his mugshot after the arrest:

Aww, he's so young, he could still stand to use some Proactiv! But it appears that our baby-faced lush is going to have to find his beloved bacon-jalapeno delight somewhere else next year.

Let's remember our cheesy pasta lover one last time:

"Just give me some (expletive) bacon-jalapeno mac and cheese." Okay, so here's the recipe for the UConn kid.

Gawker writer Ashley Feinberg has done the Lord's work. She reached out to UConn and asked for the recipe for bacon-jalapeno mac and cheese that our stalwart UConn freshman, Luke Gatti, demanded at the school's food court before he was arrested.

First off, any recipe that's titled 500439, SU MAC & CHEESE, JALAPENO BACON smacks of deliciousness immediately. The name alone rolls right off the tongue.

Secondly, I don't know what VENDOR PROVIDED CHEESE USM PJR is, but I must have it. We all know slowly aged, fine cheese from far-flung areas of this world can't hold a candle to some vendor provided varieties. Mmm-mmm-mmm, I can taste the plastic saltiness on my tongue already.

No wonder Gatti was so worked up to get his hands on this stuff. It puts your grandma's homemade mac and cheese to shame.




I didn't know what "vegalene" was on step 2 of the preparation directions. It sounded like a medical ointment--so I looked it up. Apparently it's a non-stick spray used in giant prep areas. You can buy it in 1/2 gallon and gallon sizes, too! Sign me up!


photo: Gawker

UConn student REALLY wants his mac and cheese

UConn freshman student, Luke Gatti, had a bad night earlier this week.

Gatti went to the school's food court on the prowl for some mac and cheese. Sure, he was allegedly carrying an open container of beer with him at the time. Small detail. Maybe he was parched. Regardless, the food court manager told (the probably intoxicated) Gatti that he wasn't allowed to have the beer and refused him service.

This didn't sit well with Gatti, who questioned why in America he can't have a beer in the building. If you listen closely, you can almost hear 'The Battle Hymn of the Republic' swell up behind him--and the theatrics really go into overdrive.

Gatti drops gay slurs again and again, and repeatedly has one demand: "Just give me some (expletive) bacon-jalapeno mac and cheese."

Not just any mac and cheese, mind you. He wants the bacon-jalapeno mac and cheese--which either sounds fantastically delicious or an abomination and crime against humanity.

The video above goes for roughly 6:15 with verbal jousting before Gatti decides to up the action by shoving the food court manager.

Gatti apparently never watched much WWE action growing up and didn't realize he could be tag-teamed, because another food court employee comes up from behind and performs an expertly applied full nelson, dropping Gatti to the ground and pinning him until police arrive.

Just before the video ends, Gatti offers one last pleasantry--spitting at the food court manager as he's led out to a waiting police car.

The lesson here?

UConn must make an amazing mac and cheese.




According to court documents, Gatti was enrolled at UMass last year and arrested twice on disorderly conduct charges. I assume UMass must have some fantastic culinary options in their food court as well.

Oh, and let's not forget that UConn is selling roasted crickets from their food truck. The real question here? Do they serve a cricket mac and cheese?

College sells crickets as a light snack.

UConn's 'Food for Thought' food truck has decided to start selling a new high protein, yet low fat snack.

Roasted crickets.

Sold in small plastic containers for 99 cents, The Daily Campus newspaper reports that only two to three such containers are sold each day, as the squeamish factor hasn't entirely subsided yet.

UConn sources their crickets from Next Millennium Farms, which has an estimated 30 million crickets on hand at any given time. According to the newspaper, the farm carefully removes any dead or unhealthy* crickets before killing the rest and quickly roasting them.

In addition to being sold in containers, the crickets can be added as a topping to tacos sold from the food truck as well--which is probably more edible than anything coming from Taco Bell.

The school newspaper interviewed some folks who tried free samples of the crickets. Paula Wilmot, assistant director of the Honors Program and Learning Communities, became a fan.

“It reminds me of a veggie puff,” Wilmot said.

And that, my friends, is the first time in history a cricket has ever been likened to a veggie puff.



*How, exactly, in a sea of 30 million crickets do you distinguish which cricket is unhealthy? Dead I understand. It probably looks obvious that the poor little bugger (heh-heh) went to the great big garden in the sky. But unhealthy? Does the cricket have a cough? Is its chirp sounding a little wheezy? Does it get an MRI? How do we know?