Dr. Lester Pedigrew has been detained after he assaulted Dr. Lionel DeGrosse with a computer keyboard. DeGrosse sustained laceration wounds. The conflict erupted after DeGrosse requested, and received permission, to switch classrooms with Pedigrew. Pedrigrew’s course, “Sanitation Works in American Literature” has failed to enroll more than one or two students over the past three decades. DeGrosse’s “Sex, Sex, and Sex in American Film” rarely has an empty seat.

Pedigrew’s other courses, including “Hungarian Poets in America, 1850-1890” and “Footnotes in French Literary Criticism: A Reevaluation” have rarely had enough students to run.

DeGrosse and Pedigrew’s feud dates back to 1999 when DeGrosse courted and then married Pedigrew’s then-wife, Sally Pedigrew. Pedigrew then remarried Nancy DeBeers, of the South African diamond family. DeGrosse then courted and married DeBeers, and then divorced Sally. DeGrosse was charged with bigamy but the state dropped the case. Pedigrew has attempted to burn down DeGrosse’s home, placed bombs in the undercarriage of his cars, paid waiters to put glass in his food, etc. DeBeers divorced DeGrosse in 2014 and sued him for any money or other valuables that may have accrued to him during their short and by all accounts unhappy marriage. DeGrosse has to date failed to remarry.

Until today’s assault, Pedigrew has evaded arrest.

As President Cotton reminded us, “I expect us all to get along. Fighting and feuding detract from the college’s core mission of fund-raising.”

Gary Chorizo, General Counsel-interim and Glendale Poulet, Director of Public Safety