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Michigan Student Assembly President To Resign Over Facebook Scandal

"I'll give that kid a fucking disability he can write home about if he keeps sending these code amendments to everyone" was the name of the Facebook group that University of Michigan Student Assembly prez Zack Yost created out of frustration with the frequent amendments proposed by Rep. Tim Hull. Tim has Asperger's syndrome, a mild form of autism that is often not really worth writing home about. "Yost's accomplishments as president include helping organize a rally in Lansing for increased higher education funding, developing an intern program to get more freshmen involved in student government and co-founding the Michigan Action Party ... But his legacy—fairly or unfairly—will likely be defined by the Facebook group," the Michigan Daily somberly intones.

11:15 AM on Thu Dec 6 2007
By Emily Gould
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Heather "Asperger's" Kuzmich of "America's Next Top Model" has granted an interview to Wrong Planet, which is an "online resource and community for people with Asperger's Syndrome." We already knew that Asperger's is a mild form of autism that affects people's ability to interact socially, but did you also know that it causes extreme credulousness? "I finally realized that if I'm gonna learn modeling, i might as well go on a show that has some of the best in the industry," Heather said of her decision to go on the show. [Wrong Planet]

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