Euran University scandal
The Euran University scandal resulted from an investigative series in 1695 published by The Parap National Journal from a journalist Maria Evangelista a longtime correspondent - since fired or forced to resign from Newsflash - alleging that her story was killed by editorial pressure on directives from corporate management.
Allegations
Evangelista's original, and exhaustively-documented story (since published as a 3-part series in the Parap National Journal), provides the following shocking allegations:
1. Beginning 1694, Euran University students were being hired en masse for undisclosed, nonspecific, but well-paid corporate external relations internships 2. Nationals of Nouvelle Alexandrie who were foreign exchange students were particularly highly prized and proportionally, if not significantly better compensated 3. These interns were being used as a bargaining chip and negotiating tactic of a yet-unnamed corporation (but confirmed and strenuously pointed out that this was not the ESB Group or Kerularios & Company) for particularly lucrative contracts.
Testimony
The series includes a confession by a certain Samantha X, a sophomore at Euran University studying Art History, who claimed that as a condition for her scholarship, she was required to participate in the aforesaid internship program, where she was detailed to accompany a certain corporate executive on a museum tour in Aqaba, followed by an interview to assess her mastery of the subject matter. Samantha later alleged that during the private interview, which was to take place in a suite at the Waterfall Hotel in the Radiant Sun Plaza. She was later surprised to learn that the interview was to take place in a ballroom, and she was further surprised to see fellow schoolmates present. After dinner, while alcohol was liberally served, the interview turned out to be not about art history at all. Samantha X refused to detail what took place, but the first indications of a scandal were a surprisingly large number of pregnancies of Euran University students, even beyond normal campus trends, with no particular common denominator.
