MIT students are not all like this. In fact, most of us have enough common sense not to wear circuits on our clothing to an airport. Sigh, people like this make me wish MIT would conduct a common sense test instead of that freshman writing evaluation.
On the plus side, MIT made the front page of Yahoo.
MIT student gets community service in bomb scare
BOSTON – An MIT student who caused an airport bomb scare by wearing a blinking circuit board on her shirt was ordered Monday to perform 50 hours of community service and write a letter of apology.
An East Boston District judge placed Star Simpson on probation for a year. If Simpson completes the probation, the disorderly conduct charge she faced will be dismissed.
Simpson apologized Monday in a statement released through her attorney, saying she never intended to cause alarm.
Simpson, a 20-year-old Massachusetts Institute of Technology student from Lahaina, Hawaii, had gone to Logan International Airport in September to pick up her boyfriend.
Her sweat shirt, which she described as a piece of art, had a battery-powered circuit board with flashing lights. Security personnel became alarmed by the device and arrested her at gunpoint outside the airport.
Simpson originally was charged with possession of a hoax device, a felony, but prosecutors lowered that to misdemeanor disorderly conduct.
