The Transylvania Book Heist

Volume recounts time leading up to

2004 book heist

This from the Herald-Leader:

For five years and from within his federal prison cell, Charles Allen wrote down everything he could remember about the years, months and days that preceded Dec. 17, 2004. That was the day he and three of his friends borrowed his aunt's van and robbed valuable first-edition books from Transylvania University's special collections library, tying up and terrorizing a librarian in the process.

The result is Mr. Pink: The Inside Story of the Transylvania Book
Heist, written by Allen, now 25 and incarcerated at the Federal Medical Center in Lexington. Self-published, the title of the book refers to the names that the conspirators gave one another during the commission of the crime. The book went
on sale this week.

Area colleges not only ranked on football teams

Whew!

A techno-glitch nearly caused me to miss The Princeton Review's new edition of "The Best 366 Colleges," plus its rankings of the Top 20 "Party" and "Stone-Cold Sober" schools.

My apologies to all you parents and students who may have been waiting for the party schools rankings before making that life-changing final decision on an institution of higher learning.

Kentucky and Indiana had one school in the Top 20 in the party and sober categories.

Berea College of Kentucky ranks 16th on the Top 20 list of sober schools...

...Transylvania University in Lexington, 11th as a "Major Frat and Sorority Scene."

Centre College in Danville, 16th, 18th and 19th, respectively, in "Professors Get High Marks," "Professors Make Themselves Accessible" and "Lots of Hard Liquor."

..."I see that Berea is on the 'Scotch-and-soda, (HOLD-the-Scotch) list,' " said [Princeton Review publicist Jeanne] Krier.

Berea College spokesman Tim Jordan said it's not all work and no play for students at the small, private, liberal-arts school, but Berea is content to leave the party school honors to someone else...

This from Byron Crawford at the Courier-Journal.