Oscar the pug

Oscar the Pug: a creative thinking assignment gone wrong

We were assigned the task of making Mike Lear's 6 year old pug, Oscar, famous. The only two rules were that the dog could not be harmed or killed, and that harming or killing the dog could not be integral to your plan.

The rules were broken on a myspace page, which has induced the wrath of Rick Boyko, Mike Lear and a VCU Dean. The whole thing is rather odd.

Someone (possibly a student, possibly not) wrote on a myspace blog that they were going to kill Oscar. This being Richmond, the police and the ASPCA both got involved and we students got a talkin' to.

Currently, the Oscar story is being covered on several news stations, in the Richmond Times Dispatch, in VCU's student newspaper and in multiple postings on Craigslist.

Lesson for the day: There is a difference between making something famous and making something infamous. Making something infamous is much easier.