Former Prof Arrested, Accused of Taking 2 Guns, 53 Rounds Into Law Library
By Martha Neil

A former adjunct faculty member at the University of Louisville’s law school was arrested Friday after allegedly bringing two handguns and 53 rounds of ammunition into the law school library around 8:30 a.m.

Police were initially called about Thomas Irwin, 56, because a library employee who recognized him knew that he had been banned from the campus in 2008, reports the Louisville Courier-Journal.

Authorities said Irwin had a permit to carry the handguns and told police he had the guns because he planned to go to a shooting range later in the day, the newspaper recounts. However, guns are banned on the University of Louisville campus, and Irwin was charged with carrying a concealed deadly weapon and criminal trespass. Both are misdemeanors.

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Law student’s big miscalculation

A law student and the professor who paid to have sex with her face up to a year in jail after the student told police she was a sex worker, officials said on Thursday.

The woman went to police in Ann Arbor, Michigan to press charges against the professor for slapping her during sex.

She ended up confessing to having as many as nine other clients who paid up to $500 for sex.

She told police she needed the money to pay tuition.

“Perhaps she should have cracked a legal textbook before coming in to the police station to talk about this,” Ann Arbor Detective Sergeant Richard Kinsey said.

The two met in April after the associate professor in the University of Michigan’s department of near eastern studies responded to an online ad describing the student’s sexual services. She was not a student of his.

They met at an Ann Arbor hotel where the student told police she reluctantly agreed to let the professor whip her with a belt but got angry when he slapped her twice in the face.

The professor paid her $300 and asked if he could see her again.

She told him she’d have to think about it and then went to the police station to report she’d been assaulted.

She told police she suffered vision problems from being slapped, but did not have any lasting injuries.

The professor, whose wife works in the same department, told police the student was a willing participant and the two hugged when they were done.

He said he considered having a more involved relationship with the student, perhaps as a mistress he could take with him on his travels.

The professor admitted to giving her the money and then said, “I guess I’m in trouble, huh?”

The student later regretted her decision, telling police she just wanted the investigation “to go away”.