Heavy Conscience

Ohio Wesleyan University has its clapper back. “I can finally live in peace. Do you know what it is like, carrying that thing around all these years?” read the anonymous note that accompanied it. The clapper, which weighs 40 pounds and was from the bell in the school’s Gray Chapel, was stolen “decades” ago in a student prank. The negative reaction from other students at the time made the culprits afraid to come forward to return the bell’s banger. (AP) ...The cagey kleptomaniac collegians kept the copper clapper they copped in the closet, contrite but incapable of confessing until conditions cooled. Cowards!