Professor Scott Isaksen, director of the Center for Studies in Creativity at the State University of New York at Buffalo, has been charged with handcuffing, blindfolding, and then choking a male student with a rope placed around his neck, in what Professor Isaksen described as a "role-playing game." Both professor and student agreed that this "role-playing" would take place in lieu of the 19-year-old writing a 20-page term paper.

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